Green fingers Şekernaz and her lovely garden

If you live in a metropolis, you have less chance to eat natural and organic foods, and you have to pay much more Money to purchase it. It is harder to buy such foods for those who earn a bare living in a big city. That is why most of people who have to live in metropolises prefer to buy in unhealthy hormonal and cheap fruits and vegetables.

Some urbanites are more lucky to possess a small garden for farming and planting. They love farming, because they came from such a peasant culture. My mom is one of them. She spent her 20 years at village and 10 years by farming before we migrated from Tatvan. Sometimes I have been asking her for which place is more likeable among countryside and city, and her respond mostly in favor of city but of course she couldnt prevent herself to put her countrysid

e yearning into words. What she desires is to leave from the city during all summertime and spent her hot summer days in the chilly nights of the village. She wants to stay in the city during winter times. She longs for the fresh air beneath branches of the trees near the river. We have two piece of lands in Tatvan and both are down by the river and have a great location if we compare to the other lands in the village. My mom misses the walnut, apple, pear and plum trees on the mids of the land and misses planting and watering natural vegetables.

We used to live in Güngören in İstanbul in a flat without even a small garden. We lived there more than ten years and we moved to another district named Esenyurt. Esenyurt is a bit far from the city center but it is still a nice place to live. It is a new developing district and apartments a bit cheaper here, so many people begin to buy flats and move to this place. Apart from transportation, I have no other complaint. And I got used tol ive here.

We have a small garden in back of the apartment and my mom uses the place for planting and watering. She look after pepper, tomato and green beans plants in the garden. Aside from the plants in the patch, she has various flowers planting in the eaten yogurt buckets at home. She puts them on the windowsill and on the marble stones of balconies. She grows pepper plants at home and my dad thinks that his wife has green fingers. We are all give him right to say so. he loves to

Several days ago, I was at home and my mom again went down to water flowes and trees in the garden. She asked me to help her and It was my pleasure to do. When I saw her that she closes everything with a great tenderness, I said inside that I should not let this opportunity slip away and I took my camera to shot her while she was busy with. I took her pictures to publish on my blog.