Wild Orgy in the Woods

I keep digging out roots and flattening the forest plot, turning it into something less of a forest. Just a few days more, and I will have done 25% of the whole plot.

Only a little bit left

After that part is all flat, before turning the soil into rows and let it recover and heal, I will have to do something about the remaining bamboo in the north. We don't want them to fall on our precious now do we? All those bamboo that have half fallen or will fall during the next typhoon, I will cut down.
By the way, I encountered a cluster of insects having wild passionate sex on a weed when I was heading back home...

The orgy from the title

Back home, things are kind of growing on their own in the garden, weeds and vegetables and fruits alike. It is not a fair competition cause the weeds have established themselves years ago, so once in a while I give the non-weeds a bit of help by pulling/cutting the weeds.

The entrance berries just started to turn color

The figs just started to turn color

The 2-3 plums just started to turn color

The tomatoes just started to turn color

The tomato is not pruned. Well not that much. In the beginning I kept nipping the tiny armpit leafs that came out but that was it. I stopped doing that after a couple of weeks. It is just one tomato plant but keeps growing like crazy and branching out. And all I do is to stake up the new branches to keep them off the ground, and as soon as I do, new tomatoes pop out and then new branches to stake up. It has become a monster of plant.
The eggplants and the pepper are dwarfed in comparison. Poor things. It is a miracle they even managed to produce anything at all.

Zoom out a bit to show the eggplant too

The eggplant already had turned color from the get go.

Shovel buster

Not much going on except me digging away at the forest plot.... well that is not entirely true because in the garden everything continues to grow on their own. Especially the weeds.
A couple of days I forgot to close the chicken coop's door at night, and in the morning when I go to feed them, there are no eggs waiting for me.
Every other day when I close their door at night, there are 2-3 eggs in the morning in their nests. I think it might be a civet that takes the opportunity and picks the eggs during the night. It is nice enough at least to not try and eat the chickens.
The tomato and eggplant and pepper plants are doing real well. I just hope the civet won"t pick them when the big and juicy tomatoes turn red.
The fig trees' fruit look real nice too, and have started to ripen. At the same time a second wave of fruits are coming out from its branches. I had no idea figs came in waves.
Not sure if I mentioned it but the cherry tree next to the chicken run kept producing these really bitter and horrible fruits and it took so much space, so I decided to cut it down. Now the blueberries have more space to breath.
Back to the forest... I passed the half-length spot, meaning that I have turned about 12% of the whole plot into flat mud land without so much as a single bamboo root in it.

pretty...

One day later, I dug even further, so now I am at 2/3 of the length. But right when I finished 2/3, the shovel broke in half.
I am no titan... so it must be the Japanese made tools which I buy that are of low quality...

2/3 and a broken shovel

Once I buy a new shovel and am done with the whole length, before I turn the area into 2-3 rows I need to cut ALL the remaining bamboo in the north that threaten to fall over it.
Then I make the rows, put in root barrier in the east side, and then plant lots and lots of tiny nitrogen fixers to improve the soil as well as outnumber the weeds. After that comes the long term nitrogen fixers and fruit trees. And while they grow I can expand southward, line by line.
I now also have so much chippable and mulchable wood on my hands that I am thinking about maybe repairing the dead shredder and use it.