279 7.7 Ways Of Cultivating Lands Not Levels

I awoke to the chirping birds in the morning just before the break of dawn. "Good morning birdies, come have some grains here. Thank you for being my alarm clock for 2 days in a row now." I said as I eyed a few chirping birds on a branch as it too eyed me. I pecked my hands into the rice that I had bought last night and place it under the branch where it was chirping.

I soon left and proceeded to wash up my face when I saw the birds flew down and pecked at the grains that I had left in the ground for them. At least they had their breakfast, I thought as I washed my face and hair. I scooped a mouthful of water and gargled it before sitting it on the ground.

I dusted my blanket off the ground and aired it at the back of the thatched house. I stoked up the fireplace and hang a pot to boil some water. I then went to fetch my basket of rotten fruits and vegetables, the cutting board, the broken hoe and my utility knife and went to the herbs patch. I marked the ground with several vines that I had attached together and placed a stake on both ends to make a straight line.

After I had marked the ground, I picked the hoe and began to loosen the soil deep enough using the vine as a guide. Then I loosened the earth around it and make a straight mound. This process was repeated until I've got 10 straight mounds of earth about 10 meters in length and was separated by at least a few paces in between each mound.

I took several trips to the stream to fetch water and I watered and softened the mounds first. Once I had done so, I took a tomato and sliced it roundly and placed it in the mounds and covered it with some loosed earth. Each tomato was good enough to make about 6 plantations and I decided to cover at least 2 lines for plantations.

Carrots were a bit difficult to cultivate. I had removed the leafy part and then I measured about 2 inches from the top of the carrot and cut it off before I plunged the whole carrot into the ground. The carrots could only make one line of plantations. After the initial harvest, it could be extended into the next line so I decided to keep it bare first.

Next, I worked in was with the potatoes and I had about 5 rotten ones and I halved them with my utility knife before I buried it with the cut part facing downwards and the eyes are being covered with the loose soil. "Good...we going to have potatoes in due time..." I thought to myself as using organic soil for plantation is the best.

I had a few strawberries with me and I sliced them. Knowing that each slice of strawberry would have their seeds in them, I made 2 lines of plantations for it. "Great...now for the last part...my humble string beans. I need to make a trellis for this as I walked to the forested area and saw some yellow bamboo and cut a few pieces down. I saw some bamboo shoots and I removed it from the base of the bamboo plantations. " Another source of free vegetables..."

I dragged the bamboo over to my patch and set it aside and used my utility knife to scrape away at its leaves and twigs. I chopped away at the ring of the bamboo about a length of 1 meter and then make strips out of it. These bamboo strips were then placed into the ground to where I wanted the string bean tendrils to grow and climb.

Since the 2 mounds were selected by a few paces, it enabled the climbing string beans to climb from each side end then form a trellis in the centre. It was alright for me to walk through and soon after making the vertical, horizontal and overhead trellis, I proceeded to peel away at the dried strong beans and discovered that I had a handful of those seeds.

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"Hahaha...this is better than I thought. This is a fast-growing type of string beans and once the flower had turned into a baby pod, it would be able to harvest in 3 to 5 days time. Yes...! We going to have string beans stir fry with the gruel. it would be fantastic...! Gruel... I won't mind eating it every day as long as we have variations of dishes."

I stepped back and view my work and am satisfied with it. It would take some time for the sprouts to show and would need constant weeding and watering. "Steady boom peep peep la...Now I would get is some livestock and make this place livelier.

But getting livestock also require their feeds and it costs money to maintain them. Maybe in later stages..." I thought to myself and I went to wash my hands and by that time the water in the pot had boiled and inset it aside.

The elder came out just when I had placed the pot aside and she sat down after she peered at my handiwork of the new vegetable garden that I had cultivated.

"Hmm...not bad. I was halfway thinking that you might be squirming and screaming like a little girl if you saw a fat juicy earthworm or a hairy caterpillar. Hahahahahaha. Good work, my child. So you need to take care of the garden in order to make it produce good results. Do good to mother earth and she will reward you with bountiful reaps."

"Hahahahah. I won't squirm like a small girl if I see those things. I've done boiling the water for tea. I would be preparing the bread later on so I would need about a cup of hot water, to begin with. I would be using the mixing bowl later to mix half of this flour."

"Alright, child, do as you wish as long as you don't burn the house with me in it.Hahahaha." the elder laughed as she was in a good mood as she watched me fetch the mixing bowl and placed half catty of flour and a pinch of salt. I brought it over the fire and scooped 1 cup of hot water and poured it inside and I put a dollop of animal fat and began to stir and knead the flour into a dough.

I then placed a large saucepan on the embers and used a ladle to melt a bit of animal fat into it. The kneaded dough was made into small balls and there are about 10 small balls that could be made into grilled bread. I flatten the ball in my hand to make it flat and round and when the smoke rises from the fat, I place the flattened dough in it.

"Sizzzzzzzzllllleeeeeee....." the dough was sizzling in the heated saucepan and I used a ladle to turn it on the other side when it was able to slip and slide on the surface of the saucepan. The smell of morning bread wafted into the air and several rabbits were hopping and stood in their haunches while watching me a grill.

"Lucky it's not you I'm grilling early morning. I better turn to fish instead rather than eating you, that looked like cats to me..." I called out to the rabbits and they scampered away at the idea of me grilling them over the open fire. Hahahahahaha.

I took a plate and served one to the elder when I had done with the first piece. And I made the second batch and the next until I had finished 10 grilled pieces of bread. It was a simple breakfast morning and the bread was crispy on the outside, tender and soft on the insides. Nom...Nom...Nom...Nom...Nom...

I had three grilled bread while the elder had one and told me she would eat later for the tea break in the afternoon. She asked me if she needs to make gruel and I said she don't have to since I would be heading to the trading district to get some more arrows.

She nodded and went inside and I find a place where I could meditate and entered the Realm of Mind and I exit after I had gotten 2 pieces of Refined Steel from the foundry production area. "This should be better than nothing. Time to bring my bow and quiver while covering me with the shawl. Let's find out the price of arrows, shall we?"