Faith and Tom's Blogbackyard
I am learning to relax and follow my interests. This takes
me out of the standard environmental volunteer role from time to time. I will
talk more about projects later. But, I have noticed that I am really excited with
my little projects and people are always curious about what we are doing.
Because of the economic barrier most of what I do is out of reach of the common
man. For example, the fence I built cost us around 65000 AR, roughly 32 bucks.
That is roughly 32 days of work for wage worker who makes 2000 AR a day. That
is expensive. The idea is to have a garden close to the house so that you can
care for it and reap the benefits easily. Another piece of equipment we made
was a barrel composter. Which set us back around 60000AR ($30). We were
thinking we could produce compost in about 4 weeks. We are still working out
the recipe.
Back to the fence, there were added benefits to putting up a chicken wire fence. The backyard is now a chicken-free zone. When I get the herbs bed to grow it will be very convenient. Our fence also keeps the kids out, so we don’t have kids spontaneous appear in our doorway, something out of Harry Potter. But the fence does not keep bugs from enjoying the fruits of our labor. Something is eating everything we have planted. It is either snails or worms or some invisible wilt-causing disease. We are trying to figure it out. We will start with a soap spray and a pepper spray. Faith wants to make a Moringa plant grow booster. We will see how it goes.
Our peas and something-like chickpeas and peanuts and something-like lima beans are growing fine. Escargot ate one of my peas. That snail was as big around as my thumb and as long. It was a meal in itself. I still have not been able to kill them so I just throw them in the neighbor’s compound. They have lots of animals, something will eat them. I secretly hope that their dogs choke on a snail. Their dogs bark so loud that it is like they are in our house. They seem to randomly go into barking fit from midnight to five in the morning. Some mornings it is like I did not get any sleep. We are still not use to it. I guess it is like living next to a train track. When you first move in it sucks, but you get use to it. It does not help that people walking by agitate the dogs and work them into a barking tirade.
Back to the fence, there were added benefits to putting up a chicken wire fence. The backyard is now a chicken-free zone. When I get the herbs bed to grow it will be very convenient. Our fence also keeps the kids out, so we don’t have kids spontaneous appear in our doorway, something out of Harry Potter. But the fence does not keep bugs from enjoying the fruits of our labor. Something is eating everything we have planted. It is either snails or worms or some invisible wilt-causing disease. We are trying to figure it out. We will start with a soap spray and a pepper spray. Faith wants to make a Moringa plant grow booster. We will see how it goes.
Our peas and something-like chickpeas and peanuts and something-like lima beans are growing fine. Escargot ate one of my peas. That snail was as big around as my thumb and as long. It was a meal in itself. I still have not been able to kill them so I just throw them in the neighbor’s compound. They have lots of animals, something will eat them. I secretly hope that their dogs choke on a snail. Their dogs bark so loud that it is like they are in our house. They seem to randomly go into barking fit from midnight to five in the morning. Some mornings it is like I did not get any sleep. We are still not use to it. I guess it is like living next to a train track. When you first move in it sucks, but you get use to it. It does not help that people walking by agitate the dogs and work them into a barking tirade.
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