Tropical Heritage Garden Diary:

January 2017:

January  01:

A wet start to the New Year

....but improves later

Sow and newly born piglets doing well



Older Piglets are fine too

January  03:

Only 10 now -One was suffocated by sow laying on her, possibly while sleeping

January  04:

One set of piglets take refuge in the creep space -the others only use it as a toilet....

January  05:

January  06:

One Week Old This Evening

Still coming along nicely...

January  07:

Now only 9 left

January  08:

Two Weeks Old This Evening

...and these all seem to have survived the night without a baby-sitter

January  11:

Drainage channels filled with stones to keep them from silting up

Mass Escape by Piglets

January  12:

More repairs -After another breakout

Now Only Eight in the other Litter

Poor Pinkie -Still under the House due to Rain



Goat/Pig Pen still a quagmire

January  13:

Another Breakout dealt with effectively!

Three Native Coffee Seedlings Planted in Garden

Native Cacao Beans Planted in Pot



Feared Banyan tree Cuttings Planted (for Bonsai?)

January  16:

Beware of Papaya Trees falling in the Rain

Flooding in the Goat/Pig pen



Behind the pen too



...but the other pens have remained dry

January  17:

Drainage improved and anti-slip layer of stones added

Water behind pen has dissipated



....but not inside the pen

January  19:

Flooded again after night rains -but draining quickly

Although the Pen remains the same

Purple Gabi planted

The Rain-forest Thrives -but is it productive?



Various Beans and Seeds from Garden

January  21:

Unwanted Tree fed to Goats

Sunny again

-but not for  long

January  22:

The New Piglets explore the garden -but run home when mummy calls

January  23:

Cacao beans sprouting -but Pomelo not yet

Piglets share a Banana Leaf with their mother



Parts of fallen Papaya Tree retrieved and used





Sprouting Sinkemas replanted



Assorted Beans and Vines planted

January  28:

Some well needed rain

Celebrating Sta. Nino at the neighbour's

January  30:

Recently planted Bean and Vines starting to sprout



Garden Patch tidied up and planted with various Seeds

January  31:

Rain in the Night -Pig pen flooded and fallen Coconut Branches, but plants are thriving....



Piglet Castration



Cleaning Up -getting back to Normal





Mother and Daughter Alone Now

2016
December

2017
February