The Rise of the Cucumber!


 Can you see the two new baby cucumbers coming up around the tomatoes?  I found the seeds in a dried cucumber hanging on a brick fence next to a busy street in Lagos.  The plant it came from covered about 30 yards of the fence!  I had little hope that the dried cucumber would produce productive seedlings (I had no idea how long it had sat dried on the wall)!  But things are tough in Africa and life wins in the most precarious situations.  


So I taught God! how to plant seed and sure enough, he spotted them before anyone else when they arose from the grave.  Kind of like Peter who discovered divine love still alive on Easter day!  

However, the saga continues...!  Do you remember Rattigan from a previous post?  Those suckers (rats!) came and ate about 50% of our tomatoes (I got the other 50%:), and about 1/4 of the germinated cucumbers.  They somehow know what I love the most!  

So, as promised in an earlier post, I have now actively gone to war with Rattigan and his crewmen - as I knew I would have to at some point.  We laid poison.  

But my terms of war are even more diabolical than that.  At some point, I may trap them and chop them up and dry clean  the bits for high protein feed for hungry fish. I'm always looking for the natural cycles that can benefit food production; the rats eat the poor people's food, we figure out how to eat the rats in a safe and healthy way - to me they are just pesky protein needing a fishy place to move to.

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