Pictures: Top, Dan is pulling up my tomatoes; boys are preparing bed for tomatoes at orphanage;January in sweet potato garden; January with maize that is about ready
On Monday, Peter and January and I walked the grounds of the orphanage to see the work in the gardens. January has worked tirelessly twice a day. It has been a difficult season because of the lack of rain, but he has planted fields of beans, sweet potatoes, cassava(a root plant they eat many ways), maize, and eggplant. It is hard to capture in a picture the size of these gardens but I would estimate that we have about 2-3 football fields of gardens.
I had planted a flower garden at my house a few weeks ago and Dan Douglas had brought in manure to mix in the soil. Don’t ask me how, but I ended up with a garden full of healthy tomato
plants!! They tell me there were seeds in the manure. So, we dug them up and planted a large garden of tomato plants at the orphanage on Monday. Tomatoes will be a real treat because Ugandans season everything with tomatoes. Of course, that is a luxury the orphans never had. Hopefully, they will produce, produce, produce!
Isn’t it awesome how God blesses in the most unusual and unexpected ways!