Our garden in MORIADI

The garden in Moriadi has been developped more by surprise as another littel experimental plantation. The initial aims was to have a orchard to always have fresh fruits and without pesticides. But why not also plant tomatos, gombo, beens, aubergines, diakatou and all those other veggies we eat? Going into the garden and just cut some persil, basilic or coriander to give more flavour to the salades... That was worth the effort and the results are great  ;)

In the beginning there were the fruit trees between the main building and the house of the gardien. Then we added aubergines and other easy to grow vegetables - and papayas for shadowing. But we did not yet make efforts to improve the soil. We took, what we could get. Later, we planted bananas in the valley. There, the soil was better - and it became better with the shadow of the growing banana plants. So, why not create there a real orchard? Thus the young avocado trees joined, and then oranges, mandarine, pampelmous, pomelos and guave. All small,  but they all survived the first dry saison. Ambition grow - and subsequently also the need to work more - and to increase the team. It was them, who began to develop vegetabel patches - and then all the programm started: improve the soil, phosphor coming from carbonized cow bones, seashell, cowdung and soon we will plant passion fruit to develop plant greenhouses in that valley, but also caffee, coconut and cacao.

Above all the tomatos - covert with mosquito nets to protect them from the appetit of our flying thieves, the birds - gave reason to those efforts: a wonderful taste and durability! Similar the gombo and the first beetroot - and we will see for the rest.


Also in the little garden between the buildings, we have planted passion fruit. Initially next to tutors out of wood, which constituted the structure of the hangars that we had constructed to offer shadow to the vegetables in the little garden and the urban gardening boxes. The passon fruits took the place of the straw, which we had used last season to cover the hangars.


The lianes of the passon fruits give not only shadow in the dry season, they protect the vegetables also during the rainy season from the strong rains - and they will serve as wind breaks to protect fragil young plants from the strong winds.


The fruits which they will offer - to the workers on the field as well as for our harvests - are already strongly waited for.

A herbal greenhouse - an experiment, taking finally shape 


During the last rainy season the wooden structure weakend, risking to fall not only on the plants and boxes, but also on the workers.


The first plants have well started to climb along the wooden tutors. We did not replace them totally, but the woods are now just complementary to the main structure out of metallic pillars mit metallic strings. 


We are thus building he greenhouses with metall and wooden structure - covered with a vegetable cover.

Sponsoring écologique via: https://www.goodcrowd.org/permakultur-in-westafrika
Et vient une agriculture saine....