Tropical Zone Gardening: New to Forum, 1 by njdaniel

njdaniel wrote:
Greetings....

I have found tons of great info on this site and after a few weeks I've decided to join.

A little about myself. I'm a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, West Africa. I am in the Casamance (which is south of the Gambia.) I'm sure not many people know where it is... I had to look it up on the map was I was given this assignment.

I work with agriculture and urban gardening in few different sites and gardens.

I have a variety of things in the gardens. Piment hot peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, bissap, okra, hydroponic mint, green beans, jaxatu (sour tomato), cucumbers, manioc, bell peppers, lettuce onions and various herbs- basil, parsley, thyme and etc. Also growing bananas, mangoes, citrus and papayas.

I have very few resources but some very motivated gardeners that I'm working with- all the more reason to give them good info.

I look forward to this forum and site as well as the contributing to it.

I'll be posting photos soon.

Best,

Nathan

(I'm the only guy in the picture on the left)