New mates.

Felt a need to get some living things around me so I got a pair of geese. Saw another crippled pair. Felt sorry and begged the shop to sell it to me. Four squeaky geese's in a makeshift enclosure with a basin of water...

Fertigation

Had the opportunity to accompany a friend visiting the site of a fertigation planting effort. This is a method where the farmer has almost total control on the elements of planting. From the environment - higher end projects has climate control (air-cond lahhh) - the planting material, water and nutrients. Very techie and star trek kinda stuff to me, test tubes, electronic switches and gizmos instead of the old farmers tools.

Simply put, water and nutrients are distributed via a network of pipes, the thin black tubes that goes into the plant.

Another type using auto-pot, automatic pot for plants. Imagine that.

The produce, here is a grade B or C rock melon. All about the same size and weight. I was told that grade A - for the Japanese market - would have more prominent veins on its outer shell.

Yellow melons ? Must taste great if chilled and served on a hot Sunday afternoon.

Plum tomatoes. I took one of these and it is one of the sweetest and tastiest. Even better tasting than those offered in KFC salads.

There are many other variety of plants but this one caught my eye. Giant ladies finger. The ones in this picture is among the smaller ones. There are those that are as big and long as my arm in the inner rows. Turns out that these are US imported varieties and cultivated for seedling. Ahhh, you need big long ones to produce good seeds....