Things in your Garden
As for Patrick he had to go a bit further
back to remember his childhood memories. Seeing that his blog is about healthy
living it was easier for him to remember something about childhood. Times back
then were completely different to what it is now. For Patrick it wasn't much
about buying produce but planting it and trading with neighbours for something
you didn't plant. Well as Patrick put it not trading really but friendly
exchange of the excess you would reap once you had sufficient for your house hold
without expecting anything in returned. So Patrick's healthy lifestyle I
would say was something bred into him because the majority of the food back
then came for your own land or your neighbours land.
What was in mines…
With me we grew a lot of stuff in our little
back yard. Both short term and long term crops, sometimes most long term
crops because of time constraints. We planted from tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce,
melongene, pumpkin, yam, tipi-tamboo, ginger, sorrel, pea and seasoning of
course. Patrick stated, “like you all planted everything.” Apart from what we
planted we had a lot of fruits trees as will and all of this fitted in the back
on one lot of land. Don’t ask how we sell found space to plant but mother
certainly did. We had two cherries, one sour soup, one forever not baring
avocado tree (which eventually did bare) two guava trees, one rough lemon tree,
one sour orange tree, a breadfruit tree, two coconut trees, three mango trees
(one was a mini juile tree) and the biggest of all was the pommecythere tree. The
pommecythere started off with one trunk but then spilt into a v leaving us with
two big spread out branches. Patrick said “we had it all,” but I would say so
because we still use to raid the neighbours’ tree. They had a governor plum
tree, a pommerac tree and a graphed mango tree (aka belly full). Those were the
good old days. Now I just starve for the healthy easy living of long ago.
What’s in your garden?
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