Dear Family & Friends
At this moment, most of our villagers are harvesting or have already harvested their potatoes. We harvested ours, but it's a complete failure this year. We got very little as most of them were eaten by the cricket moles that live deep in the soil. I have yet to know how we can deal with this problem!!
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| one of the villagers' home garden |
Despite not successful with our potato harvest this year, yet, there's no way we are to be without:) Our next door neighbour gave us a box full of big potatoes because he was grateful we got his Friday newspaper for him. We are grateful for the gift of potatoes too:)
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| time to replant other crops in a village garden |
Then, yesterday as my girl was walking in the village for a late afternoon stroll, she stopped by and said 'hello' to a grandmother sitting in a bench outside her house. The grandmother shared with her the disappointment of their potato harvest...because they were not as big. thus, she's giving it to her chickens! To our standard, a potato the size of large chicken egg is good enough! When she heard about our own failure...she asked my girl to carry a bucketful back home. With some of it...I made grated potato pancake with chives...it was so delicious and my girl took a dozen of it back to the grandmother to enjoy too:) 'Now grandmother...don't be too wasteful. We all love the 'small' spuds ;P'
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| a homey garden in our village |
Our village folks works hard and they are proud of their achievements. I think they should! The richness of our village people never fails:) May you also be filled with the joy of good people surrounding you where you are too:)
Yours
It's lovely to lilve in a place like that where houses have the space to grow lots of veg. Here new houses are being built with gardens far smaller than half my front garden! I have some good (older) gardeners locally to me though and they love that I grow so much.
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