A rainy season day

It won't stop raining. Drizzly rain. A typical rainy season day. The rainy season front is being stimulated by a typhoon passing by our area. So it will be a day off for me from working in the garden farm. 

This is the battle field for me to do with weeds. They are so vigorously growing that it is often tough for me to catch up with. Battling only with hands and a small sickle. No herbicide has been used. Without pulling/cutting them, they would grow like jungle in a few days.

Piled up weeds which were pulled/cut. Added rice bran on them, they will become good compost in a few months. Almost free and natural fertilizer.  

Turnip seeds left unused last season were sown on a corner. They were successfully sprouted. Lovely. 

As I have seriously expected poor harvest in our country or even world wide in the near uture, the food self sufficiency rate being only 38% in our country or even down to 10% if considering of the seeds and fertilizers dependent on the other countries, it has been a routine for me to plant sweet potatoes which could be substituted to rice. It is a serious question why the government would do nothing for the possible food crisis. They are concerned about only military expansion but not food security. Sweet potatoes are growing well without any fertilizer etc if the soil is kept dry. 

Tomatoes. It's a fight against bugs which eat them. No pesticides. If the situation is disadvantageous against the bugs, should I protect them wrapping with nets? 

Egg plants. Already harvested a few. Whenever picking them, I remember of a good old friend, Fred, K5FA, who used to plant a lot of them and told me they were ripened in our QSOs. He is already gone away.

Flowers of carrots. Beautiful. I will collect the seeds from them and plant them in fall. 

Another flower, almost wild at our garden. Marie gold. It is beneficial to prevent growth of a kind bacillus.

Rose. It is not my territory but my wifes. I am only cutting the weeds around it and pile them there.

 So many trivial photos. They may show you how I am getting along despite of the neuralgia on legs. The pain is well controlled with a med named Pregabalin. So far, only conservative treatment is good enough for me.

Again, whenever I sit on the weedy garden and pull them, I often ask myself how long I could do this work. The answer is always evident. So far as I could. As told before, I convince myself I am blessed to care for the property which has been cared for by my maternal ancestors. In a long term view, it might return to nature, which we could not worry or care for. 

So I am looking forward to coming back on the gound with a sickle soon.