time to grow

taking almost as long as this blog to come about is my vegetable garden. alas we have cleared some land and have planted some seeds. chinese cabbage (bok choy), watermelon, beans, and some samoan tree/plant (maybe called a drumstick tree) have been planted directly in the garden while basil and green peppers are first being planted in seed boxes inside. all have sprouted except for the unidentified samoan tree, and the peppers. the weeds and rocks are a nightmare. the tree there on the left of the picture is a banana tree which there are tons of in samoa. the other elephant ear-looking plant is the taro. a root crop (similar but much better tasting and more nutritious than a potato) which is the staple of samoa and all other pacific islands. perhaps this is why the samoans grow so strong. it is nicknamed the samoan steriods (neither are part of our veggie garden) the cash crop of the garden (the cabbage) is under the dreid coconut leaves in the background. this is a project undertaken with my host father at his house in neiafu-uta, a good mile and a half uphill from me, so i will be relying on him to do most of the watering and transplanting, since i am not there at the only times of the day that he will work in the garden. (crack of dawn and dusk).