🌳Planting trees is contagious🌳🌳

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Dad wanted a forest.

A month ago, Mom bought an avocado, so I placed the seed on my desk. Two weeks later, I bought another one and put it away again. Yesterday, I bought another one and put it away too.

The three avocado seeds.

My new seed.

My goal is to plant an avocado tree in the yard.

Although I haven't germinated them yet, I have them here to keep an eye on. But before that, I must find a good place to germinate them successfully. Since I haven't found one yet, they're here waiting with me.

I've also germinated bell peppers, chili peppers, and zucchini. I hope to soon expand my plantings to include cucumbers, rocoto (a type of red, very hot pepper), and maybe some eggplants.

I'm thinking about this last one and hoping for good luck because it hasn't been easy for me to get some plants. Despite this, I continue trying tirelessly.

To all of this, I'll add avocado seeds and seeds from a flowering shrub.

Hoping to have a very healthy and beautiful avocado tree. I know it will take years to grow and produce avocados, but it doesn't matter, I want to plant it, to contribute something to the garden forest.

That wouldn't be the first tree I would plant, because I already planted a tangerine tree (which I hope I'll be able to eat tangerines from one day). So planting an avocado tree would be a second tree planted with my own hands.

It would also increase the number of trees because my father wanted a forest, and he certainly achieved that goal.

Seeing it, you'd think there were already enough trees, so you'd be surprised to know my father wanted another cherry tree.

At the time, I told him there were already plenty, and now I'm thinking about how much we need an avocado tree.

It would be delicious, and also very beautiful, tall, with its avocados ready for lunch. Just thinking about it makes me want it even more.

I don't know if I'll live here my whole life, but in the meantime, I'll continue planting and filling with life this legacy they've left us.

I also have something very certain in my mind, and that is that I want to continue planting wherever I go. Flowers, cacti, ornamental plants in general, a garden, and trees. Because planting is life, as is happiness.

And that happiness is made up of hope. The hope of waiting for them to bloom, for the fruit to arrive, or even for a plant to germinate.

Now my hope is to keep my plants alive (avoiding excessive water from the rain), have a garden (which I don't have because my pets have made them unsuccessful attempts), and plant at least one more tree in the garden.

A few days ago I saw the new leaves on the mango tree. It looks like we'll have a giant here.

Is that ambitious?

I don't think so. I've always thought that way; since I was a child, I've always thought about planting everything I see. So, as an adult, I haven't changed much. I still want to plant, take cuttings, and experiment with every plant I can think of.

So if I continue like this, I'll need a bigger plot of land. You can call it ambition, but for me, it's just fulfilling a dream.

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