We took a three year assignment with Mennonite Central Committee in Najile, Kenya. Read on for our stories.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

What's Growing?

This post is dedicated to my dear family that all love to have something growing, whether it be in the window, on the porch, down in some remote corner of the yard, be it a volunteer tomato, a transplanted wildflower from the side of the road, or a tree. So, bear with me as I show you a few of the things we've got growing around here.
Avocado tree

Moringa tree seedlings and a mango seedling

Our garden is taking shape. The small praire that our yard has become you can get a sense for on the far side of the garden. In some places it is shoulder high on me!

A volunteer squash that came up on the edge of our garden. It looks like it may be a butternut .

Here are some kale. This is the ubiquitous Sukuma Wiki of Kenya. Because everyone eats it around here, you find it being grown everywhere there is a small corner, along the road or next to the shop.

An exciting volunteer in our compost pile:  mango tree

Our Kei Apple hedge that we're growing around 1/2 of the compound.

The Passion Fruit vine

Purple beans just as eager to climb as they are in Pennsylvania or Minnesota!

Wild daffodils are among the many wildflowers growing post rainy season

A shot to compare with previous shots of our house pre-rainy season.

Fancy grass

Prairie? or Savannah and our front gate.

Watering. Eventually we might get some drip line's set up.

4 comments:

  1. NICE PIX - AREN'T GROWING THINGS FUN?
    YOUR PLANT LOVING DAD

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  2. It looks beautiful!

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  3. Ooh--my passion fruit vine has a younger sister! I'm pretty sure her Kenyan sibling will soon surpass her.

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  4. I hope your purple beans do better than mine. They've gotten some sort of odd discoloration, and now the stinkbugs are eating them (along with everything else).

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