I grow my first corn this year and I am very happy about this because it’s a special corn. My corn is a greek traditional variety and I found 8 corn kernels from a local small organization.
I gave 2 corn kernels in a neighbor and I have sown the 6 of them. I have sown the seeds in small containers because I wanted to save time. Now I have 4 corn plants and I will go to the plot next week to transplant them.
I really want to follow the permaculture in my plot. I understand how useful is the mulch and straw for the soil and plants. But I really hate the snakes.
I usually don’t have problem with wild fauna. I was study about fauna, I work many years for wild animals protection, I let a brown bear to whittle my hand, I snuggle a baby wolf, I help big birds of prey and many other animals but I hate snakes.
In the area of my plot we have vipers. It’s the most dangerous snake in my country. Usually we clean all the weeds around the house so it’s easier to protect ourselves from vipers. It’s easier to see a snake in a clean space.
This year we plant our potatoes in March and they are growing nice until now. the variety I found it was Agria, well It was the only one I found so I couldn’t choose. It’s a nice potato but I really want to find potato sets from red potatoes.
Something happen these days in Haiti. After the strong earthquake Monsanto decide to make a “gift” to Haitian Farmers. They decide to donate more than $4 million worth of conventional corn and vegetable seeds and as they said “The Haitian Ministry of Agriculture approved our donation and ensured the seed selected was appropriate for the growing conditions and farmer practices in Haiti”.
But now something happen in Haiti. The MPP (Peasant Movement of Papay) has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation’s presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.
And finally we have tomatoes in my city garden. They are so small and I have no idea about the variety this moment. I will know the variety when they ripen.
