The Beginnings of Our Garden
We got great news today. We will be closing on our house this Friday, so if all goes well, we will soon have the keys and the house will be ours!
One of our first tasks is to start a garden to help supplement our diet with vegetables we are unable to get locally (like pea sprouts, mustard greens and fennel root). During our last trip NOB, we bought seeds in preparation for the grand and glorious garden of our dreams.
That said, Brent’s been reading about gardening in the Yucatán and discovered a few things. The layer of topsoil is thin; dig down 6 inches and you’ll likely hit solid limestone (not a good start). The dirt we’ll buy to thicken this layer will filter down through the limestone and be lost forever. Once planted, our vegetables will be attacked by a menagerie of tropical insects and diseases. And finally, what the bugs don’t get, the iguanas will finish off in the night while we sleep.
This, however, will not deter us especially when yummy food lies at the other end of the trail. To kick it all off, we planted some seeds (hyacinth beans pictured above) in preparation for our move in date. So far, so good.
