I'll do some gardening somewhere

HIYA!

I've asked my boss if he thinks I could do some gardening around here somewhere and he says it shouldn't be a problem. I've asked the son of the apartment manager and he says the same. I'm not ready to start. I'll need to ask my boss for some help. He says he can ask the owners of the garden just outside the apartment building if I can use some of the land. I'd be happy to rent a piece. But only if the land isn't contaminated with lots of agricultural chemicals. In that case I'd rather get a bunch of pots and other things to plant in on the rooftop. I could also use my balcony. And buy some soil.

Alternatively, I wonder if I can use a piece of land at one of the nearby temples. That'd be really neat. They've already got tangerine groves and a bit of vegetables growing. This morning I saw a lady walk over to a tangerine grove with a small bucket. There was some composting grass beneath the trees. She opened the bucket and dumped the stuff out of it, and buried it in the decomposing grass. The stuff looked like she'd been fermenting it. So I'm wondering if the lady is doing organic agriculture here. If so it'd be an ideal place for me to grow some vegetables.

There's also a lot of wild things growing all over that I'm really interested in growing to eat. When I walk around I always look at things growing. I've seen quite a few that I know to be edible. Some from Thailand, some from the US. Once I start doing something I'll see about pulling these plants up to take back and put into soil.

I don't know if I'd plant and grow "weeds" though at a temple. People may not appreciate it very much.

So all this gardening stuff really depends to a great extent on my boss. He's the only one I know around here who speaks much English. Yet he's really busy with other things so I don't want to give him too many things all at once.

One other thing I want to do about gardening is go to some of these botanical gardens around to ask what local plants are edible and see about planting some of them. There's a native plant association of some sort here in Korea. I've seen a contact for the group here on Jeju Island so I'll see about contacting him.

Enough.
Troy.