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Mandela's garden

Author : ( South Africa ) Nelson Mandela

Early 1977 , the authorities ended my field of mining limestone hard labor , so I was in the prison courtyard to do something , be able to arrange a large courtyard in the prison life in prison , is really a liberation . So I can read a book all day , write a letter , discuss issues with like-minded persons , or prepare some legal documents. The location of the prison on Robben Island , I also use the free time to develop the two hobbies : vegetables and tennis.

To spend hard time in prison , you have to find ways to find a little comfort in everyday life . Wash clothes , make clean as new ; clean sweep foyer hallway , making spotless ; pack up the room , so narrow jail cells so spacious as possible . These can be thought prison life more satisfying and fulfilling .

Almost to Robben Island in Iraq so , I will ask the authorities to allow me to open one in prison courtyard garden . This authority has been rejected, not the whole story , but eventually the authorities made ​​some concessions, I was able to reclaim the prison courtyard near the wall of a narrow garden .

Prison compound built on garbage , dried soil , rocks arisen. In order to reclaim the garden , to make room for the growth of the crop , I moved many large stones. During that time, I have kept all day digging in the ground , for some friends joking I was born a miner .

Authorities gave me a seed , I first planted tomatoes, peppers , onions, these are anti-poor , and without startling care vegetables. Beginning of the harvest little , and soon there will be improved. Harvest when the authorities began to see the garden , they did not allow me to go back on vegetables , I often give regulators provide some of the best tomatoes and onions.

I have a soft spot for farming garden , until after I was detained , have the opportunity to take care of their own garden . Back in college , when Ford Hal , I planted vegetables in the garden of a professor , which is part of the school of manual labor required . After the hard mental work , I go to the garden , immersed in intimate contact with the land , the lot. When I went to Johannesburg to study and work , have neither the time nor the place to reclaim the garden .

With the prison garden after I started growing vegetables subscribe to relevant books, learn a variety of farming techniques , learn how to use various types of fertilizers . I do not have the book discusses many of the materials needed to grow , but I can learn to practice and failure. Once, I tried to peanuts , with a different soil and fertilizer , but eventually gave up because of failure .

I was in prison vegetable garden is a rare thing to self- management . Sow seeds, observe the growth , taken care of ,

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