Chapter 14 - Self sustaining Dream

As I registered for the alleging program, It was already night time , so I went to sleep .

As I woke up, It was already 10 am , which meant that I have even sleeping for 10 hours now . Well, it did require me to sleep 9 hours so I don't think 1 more hour is gonna make a difference . Exactly, they must be paying me extra.

Well, it is alright now for me to eat bread and butter at Breakfast so I ate it and decided to lay down a little .

After having my rest, I stood up planing for the rest of the day. I did plan to grow the food myself the other night . So might as well researching about it .

So my best friend helped me look up , how to grow food by myself .

Alright , the process was pretty easy .

- Plant the seed of the fruit or the vegetable you wanna grow in the fertile soil.

- Water them in a regular basis

- wait for it to grow .

Although, it sounded easy , the problem was already visible as bright as the sun in the midday.

Where to plant the vegetables? There were some vegetables and fruits that only grew in certain climate and certain soil. Additionally , there were also certain vegetables that could only grow in certain seasons.

First up I looked up what kind of vegetable can be grown all over the world and whenever you want , all seasons around. The answer was basically Tomato, Lettuce, Cabbage, Potatoes and Radishes.

Tomato , I just started eating it , although I don't like it it's essential for my life nowadays .

Lettuces , well I don't have anything against these .

Cabbage might be one of the favorite in the list . I like it very much , even if it weird that I eat Cabbage with soup , it is still acceptable in our society .

Potatoes , I love them . Even if someone told me , I could only eat potato for the rest of my life , I would have nothing against this person.

Radishes , I hate them , they are spicy and I don't like spicy food .

So I decided to grow Potato, Tomato and Cabbages for the first try . But the problem still remains , where to grow them ? I mean I could buy soil and seed from the market but I still need a place to plant them, right ?

To make things clear , my family lives in a rented apartment , so where can I find land where they allow me to plant ?

Well, I tried asking the house owners , and of course they refused . Who will let me plant my vegetable in their field , other than saints and gods themselves?

I looked around my area using google earth, as expected useless. With no one to turn to , I asked my buddy to help me out on this one . As they say, Google knows everything . He suggested me to rent the garden in Garden Ghettos and plant anything I want as long as it is not against the law.

Garden Ghettos , I didn't know what it was . I looked it up and found out that they are a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants. So basically , only for some rich people with botany hobbies . From where would I afford a plot of land for gardening when I can't even afford a proper house .

So I decided for the ultimate solution . Plant them myself in my room , in a bucket full of soil and water them daily .

Some of you might be asking , why in my room , because our family hosts lot of family gathering and because no one likes me , following this opinion, nobody is interested in me so that's why no one comes in my room accordingly . So the plants will not be run over by some 5 year olds . And why should I give them an another reason to laugh at me ? I mean , seriously , they make fun of me all the time , so this time it will be different . I will be secretive about my dream of being rich and healthy so I can come back and show them who the boss is.

So I went to the market to buy some potato , tomato and cabbage seeds , suitable soil and buckets . As I enter the soil department , I am greeted with many different types of soil , which I never it existed . I mean, soil is soil right , but no, I was wrong .

I asked the person working I. That department :

" can you help me find the suitable soil to grow potatoes and tomatoes and Cabbages?"

Then he shows me way towards three different types of soil explaining their uses and kind .

"May I help you with something else , Sir"

"While you are at it ,Can you help

Me search for the Potato , Tomato and Cabbage seeds "

"of course , Sir . Let me lead the way."

While putting bags of soil in the trolly , I rolled my Trolly towards the seeds , I was again given seeds for the vegetables I wanted to grow as I headed towards the counter .

"How much , Miss"

"Your total would be 86 dollars and 67 Cents , Sir"

I paid for my stuff and went towards the exit. I called a taxi because I couldn't carry all these myself to home . The taxi arrived after 4 minutes of wait and we drove towards my home .

I started unpacking soil and putting it in the basket which I bought when I entered my room . I filled nine buckets full of three different kind sand and planted the seeds in the respective soil as I was instructed to do by the helper in the market .

Now . All that's left to do was wait for them to grow and of course not to forget to water them regularly.

I think I am capable of that at least . So I know I have to wait but how long was still the question lingering in my mind . So I decided to google it up .

The result was following ;

Tomato - Early season- 60-70 days ;Mid season - 70-80 days ; Late season - 80 or more days .

Potato - 70 - 120 days .

Cabbage - around 70 days .

So everything that I planted will take around 70-80 days to grow . Ok, so I will wait and water them regularly for 75 days and eat my very own Bio food .