It's Sunday night, and it's trying to rain outside. I really do hope it rains, as my pumpkin vine is getting nice and big (no pumpkins on it yet, though), and the green leafy veggies that R planted behind his hut are growing nicely, too. But I don't want to have to water. It's a pain to haul water, especially to the field where the green leafy veggies are growing! I'm SO looking forward to these greens, though! One kind is a sort of spinach, that you can cook into all sorts of things - a bit bitter to eat raw, though. The other kind can also be cooked, but is really tasty raw, like lettuce in a salad. I have no idea what we call it at home, but all the British folks here call it "rocket". It's good stuff, I tell you, and will be SO nice to have fresh from the garden, without having to worry about disinfecting it and everything else.
Ooooohhhhh, here comes the rain! Whoo hoo! In theory, the rainy season should be over. But a few months ago, when I was contemplating planting my pumpkins, one of the old team leaders here, a former agriculturalist, told me that rainy season would last this year until November. Seems he was right! I don't know how he knows these things, but he was certainly right about this one. Everyone else was laughing at me for planting my pumpkins when I did - said I was much too late. But I have high hopes for these pumpkins.
And I will sleep tonight dreaming of green leafy vegetables :)
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