Today we went to La Argraia, the National University for Agriculture. It’s a humongous university located just outside of Lima and we are going to be going there every Saturday from now on to learn how to grow organic gardens. We started off with some boring lecture in Spanish about farming that I definitely didn’t understand but afterwards we rolled up our sleeves and started working.
We started from scratch by each planting seeds from different types of plants. I had Albacha which is Spanish for Basil. Other people had lettuce, fennel, parsley, etc. etc. We made a mixture out of sand, mulch and soil and used it to fill about 100 holes in a plastic tray then we put 2-3 seeds in each hole. We put them in the green house and watered the plants, hopefully before long we will have some fresh herbs and veggies.
Afterwards we went to the garden and learned how to turn a plot of dry hard earth into a garden. It involved a bunch of rakes, hoes, water, blood, sweat and tears, and a heck of a lot of “caca de vaca” also known as cow shit. Yes, I spent the day breaking up large pieces of manure with my hands so that it would fertilize our plants better. When it was all ready, we planted half of the plot with spinach and the other with…..I don’t even remember at this point. I guess we will just have to wait and see when it grows.
We started from scratch by each planting seeds from different types of plants. I had Albacha which is Spanish for Basil. Other people had lettuce, fennel, parsley, etc. etc. We made a mixture out of sand, mulch and soil and used it to fill about 100 holes in a plastic tray then we put 2-3 seeds in each hole. We put them in the green house and watered the plants, hopefully before long we will have some fresh herbs and veggies.
Afterwards we went to the garden and learned how to turn a plot of dry hard earth into a garden. It involved a bunch of rakes, hoes, water, blood, sweat and tears, and a heck of a lot of “caca de vaca” also known as cow shit. Yes, I spent the day breaking up large pieces of manure with my hands so that it would fertilize our plants better. When it was all ready, we planted half of the plot with spinach and the other with…..I don’t even remember at this point. I guess we will just have to wait and see when it grows.
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