Gardening Bliss
Chris and I are fortunate that our rented home has a large veggie patch. With the help of Chris’ dad, we have few veggie plants planted at the beginning of this year. We have tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis, squash, rhubarbs, and bok choy. Other than the veggie patch, we also have lemon tree, fig tree and grape vines at the backyard. The lemon tree is very useful as I often harvest them so I can have coke with lemon, or made sangria, or seasoning seafood… The fig tree is huge and almost take over the whole backyard! I haven’t really had fresh figs before and I had my first experience early this week. They were so refreshingly sweet… I’m planning to learn to cook something delicious with the ripe figs and perhaps dry some for Chinese soup!
Chris has been working hard around the veggie garden. I must say that he did a very good job, as he wakes up early to water the garden and do the same thing when the sun sets. I have tried to help to water the garden in the afternoon few times, and this is the happiest time for the mosquito coz they will have a feast – me! I had seven mosquito bites one time on both of my calves within a 5 minutes watering.
We have plenty of vegetables from our veggie garden, we have been giving them away because we have too much! Although I reckon maintaining a veggie garden can be quite costly as we have to purchase fertilisers and items to killed the bugs. However, the experience is priceless – seeing the veggie grow big slowly and the tomatoes turn red, it can fulfils your boring working day.
There is a pleasure in seeing something you planted grow out of the ground.
There is also satisfaction and safety in the fact that you know exactly what chemicals and fertilizers have been used to grow it. It’s so much healthier for you.
Home grown tomatoes taste about ten thousand times better than the chemically reddened ones from the supermarket!!
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Mosquitoes don’t really seem to attack me, which is good. Sometimes I get half a bite. I think they go for it and then realise I taste bad.
The mosquitoes in Kunming are LAZY!! They fly so slowly and you can catch them every single time with one hand.
Although I’ve seen mosquitoes every daye in the two months since we arrived, I have not been bitten once.
Lucky you, I seems to get bitten no matter where I go…