Saturday, I went to the Marta’s “chacra” with her. She has grown quite an assortment of plants. She has yucca (manioc), sweet potatoes, green beans, plantains, papaya, passion fruit and some watermelon. Fortunately it was not too hot. Even so working the garden always makes one sweat. She was gone from December until last week so there was a lot of growth to deal with, but at the end of a couple of hours more than half of the undesirable growth had been cleared. She pulled up the yucca she needed and replanted the branches. It will be another 8 ½ months before it will be ready for harvesting again. After pulling several yucca plants up, she left one for Habakuk, Guina and Clinger. The pulled and pulled to no avail. Even with all three of them pulling and pushing the root refused to give. Finally Habakuk found a spear and was able to loosen it up and up came some very big yucca. Marta got a kick out of it all since with one big tug she could have pulled it up. 
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