Hey this is Marjory
Just wanted to give you a quick update.
I know I haven’t been posting any videos in a while...
First of all, I’ve been in Puerto Rico.
It’s now April and I’ve been here since January.
I actually came out here and got to live through some earthquakes and now I get to live through
a pandemic.
We came out here looking (1) to help the local food supply (the local homegrown food movement)
and also (2) looking for farmland because we want to grow really high-quality medicinal
herbs.
But I’m here, kind of got stuck in this whole thing.
And I’m like OMG, I rented an Airbnb without getting to see it ahead of time.
This place is totally...
The description said garden house, I thought “perfect!
That’s me.”
Really beautiful property but as you can see, there is no garden.
Everything is totally shaded.
I really have to grow food.
I’m gonna do it anyway.
I always grow my own food.
Now more than ever is important.
I wanted to show you a couple things that I’m doing and the first is
Is I’m just walking around and see stuff *basura*
Anyway I found this really cool great-to-protect-a-plant wire thing
Let me show you what I’m growing.
I’ve got some starts.
Okay, what I have going are little starts
This is a little container system I picked up at Walmart.
I just planted these a few days ago.
These are radishes.
Super-fast.
Super easy to get going.
And the roots of course, the things that make people go “ahhh it’s gonna be too hot”
- if you boil them just like potatoes, it takes out all the heat and it becomes a nice
filling kinda starchy vegetable.
The other things I have growing here are some little tomato starts.
Since I’m in the tropics, cherry tomatoes tend to better than other variety tomatoes.
Somebody gave me this little pepper plant – I'm gonna start fostering that.
These are calabassas, gigantic squash.
A friend of mine gave me a big chunk of squash and I took the seeds to start them here.
One thing you’ll notice in the tropics is the biggest predator, iguanas.
These crops, I’m pretty sure... the squash leaves are kind of furry not very tasty.
If you’ve ever eaten any of the leaves from the solanaceae family, which are the tomateoes
and peppers – they're awful.
I’m hoping, these guys I’m gonna keep close, the radishes.
And I'm hoping the mustard are not at all palitable to an iguana.
Well you know those tomatoes and that squash, the calabasa, are really gonna need some space.
I’ve been doing 2 things... because the yard I have here is not good or growing.
(1) I’m helping some neighbors get started.
Helping them start their garden and giving them some starts that I’ve got growing.
And the other thing (2) that’s actually way more exciting and fun is I am guerilla
gardening.
When I get a few minutes, I’m going to shoot another video to show you my guerilla garden
patch.
I just love that name.
I’ll talk to you later.
This is Marjory.
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