Mokko is on the slow farm
He's getting ready
to plant
plantain in a huge area that he's cleared out, so
he's just digging up all the suckers
suckers
which are the little clones of the mothers
that grow beside them
and he's transplanting them into the field
They're pretty interesting looking things
they kind of look like a
big, round
root
but yeah
they're a very interesting plant
Wow, it looks like plantain murder in here
Strike them down
Standing on it like a champ
Water
So much water in the old ones yeah?
The dead ones just suck it right up
How many are you going to try and dig up today?
Maybe 30 or 40 or 50 or 60
These here
Yeah
This is the amount I'm digging now
I'm not digging any more
I don't know the amount as a whole yet
Just dig, dig, dig
see what you get
to dig and plant them
So much water in that main plant
No, that's no good
Take it and set it in the
Where?
Set it over there when you're going there
Matthew look there, we have potatoes
So this is how you dig up plantain
Yes sir
Sucker
The sucker is the little young plant
growing off the mother
Transplanted
That's one
Some of them are not
really big plantain
These plantains here are the good ones
So you just take the bottom part?
that was a little one beside it
so that's a full other one you can do
and here's the baby version
and some small like these
This one here
I can't plant one type of plantain brother
How come you don't bother
bringing the top part with it?
It can be planted too
You can, too?
Oh it doesn't matter
It just keeps it easier a little bit?
I like when I cut them off and they just burst
Pretty
It's another little one
Oh yeah you can see
that one's got nothing off it yet
These plantain suckers
So they must be pretty resilient things
if you can just chop off whatever piece of them
[and they] still come back
Call me when I'm working. That's no good
No time for f**kery
No man
when the plantain's ready man
I'll move them from there
get suckers, and these here
these two here will came back and give more
so I'm just taking out this
this and this
So you just want one at a time in each spot
or one and then a young one growing
to keep the next generation see the potatoes there
F**k
That's how they bear, potatoes
Is that a potato just randomly
That's why I'm rushing there
because that's what I'm going to plant here
That's how I plant them each year
but I don't have time now
It makes sense I deal with what I have to do
What are you digging like that Ratty?
Potatoes
can't plant all the plants
and these down here
they're going to come right back down here
These here
they'll come back down
When they're shooting
I'll come back down there and fill up down there
we took them
Can't plant only small plantain
[Have to] plant some big
big bunches of plantain
Wow, so many off this one
So many
Is that 5? 6?
Five off the same one?
All different sizes
Big boy
little baby
mid size
It's this type of sucker we want Ratty
because it's the big sucker
A bunch here
One, two, three, four
Grandpa it's these
ones here
These ones here that I have
Where I planted the plantains
See the banana line there
Those aren't big suckers those are small suckers
Youngest generation right there
Another one here
but yeah, growing very close
So I guess they need that space
to get them to
bear properly
Oh, an even smaller one
look at that
almost missed it
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Six suckers growing off
the same one
Then you've got these old ones
1, 2, 3, 4 in this
Four yeah I see the little ones
There's one right there again
These big plantain too
It really looks cleared out here
here now that you took the young ones out
All these
ones you just took the suckers from
has really opened it up
to get more
light in here
What have you got there Ratty?
Potato?
Yeah
Sweet potato?
Yeah
Oh, the whole thing
The plant
So these are all the ones
we planted the other day
This row
and it seems like half of them are marked
and we've got a
a few more new ones to go
Whole heap as they say, yeah
So this whole area
that Mokko has already dug out
is going to be plantain
A big plantain section
It's about every six foot or so
another hole
and
He says sometimes the river
does reach all the way up here but not usually
Matthew
Yeah
Count them off
1, 2, 3,
Four
Not planting them today
Five
Tomorrow
Six
You've got it all ready though, so
Let them dry
because when you plant them green
they burst on the tree like those
Oh
I won't plant them that way
Give them more than one day
Well youre all prepared
You've got all the holes done
18, 19
When I come back up here
I'll clean up up here
with my hoe
one of these days and make some fire
Sow some ganja seeds
What was here before?
My farm
farm man
This?
Ya man, oh
that's dumb cane
Bad stuff
I'm going to dig them out shortly
put them in the ‘barrow
and take them away because I never liked them
Come back right here to plant
herb and all that stuff
forty, forty-one
Forty-one
Yeah
Pick up the fork down there Ratty
it's a good amount man
A very good amount
plus the twenty from yesterday
Ya man
Forty-two Grandpa
Look there
See one more in the hole there. Forty-two
These places I took care of them to plant some
nice corn and those things
I'm going to clean it up man
Burn them
Dig it up with my hoe and scrape it up
Ya man