A Sembrar!

Raise your hand if you're tired of hearing about the garden project.

If your hand is raised, you might want to skip this post.

We left off having successfully built the beds and filled them with a nice, fertile mixture of soil and leaves. At the following workshop, we started by adding one more element to our soil mixture:

Humus (mature compost). It came from earthworms. Which is why there's a drawing of a gigantic earthworm on the package.

We mixed the humus in with the top layer of leaves/soil and then we had to water everything. This took awhile.

In the meantime, some of the ladies started peeling off the outer layers of some green onion bulbs to prepare for planting.

Then came the fun part. First, we measured straight lines down the beds using string...

...and then - THEN - after weeks of promises and building beds and building fence and more promises, we finally, Finally, FINALLY PLANTED!

We planted with seeds, bulbs, and plants, and now our garden has onion, bell peppers, squash, and turnips.

It was a momentous occasion, and it marked the time when our watering regimen began in earnest. And, I'm happy to announce, the group really stepped up and took responsibility. With the help of the health center next door, the garden gets appropriate watering and care in between our weekly workshops. Things are growing!!! Green things!!!

And on that jubilant note, I take my leave. Until next time, fellow gardening fiends!

*a note on the title of this post: sembrar = "to plant"