Andres Bonifacio College

VEGETABLES in a CHRISTMAS TREE: A Fiction of Myth?

Christmas tree, a semi-permanent structure constructed out of iron bars, erected at the center of the Andres Bonifacio College grounds had been a reflection of unity, cooperation, and camaraderie among the students, faculty and staff of the different departments of the college, especially during the season of giving and sharing in the months of September of the current year to February of the following year, commonly tagged as the “Christmas Season”. All hands were all the years put together making the
tree more appealing as it could be in the eyes of all. The tree itself says, “Ang Ganda ko ngayon.”

The Christmas Tree, after the said season seems to be left alone. Nobody cares beauty begun to fade and decors attached to it during the season still hung themselves in  frustration. Walang pumapansin.

In an instance, a lady in her best jokingly said Can we not let a climbing plant grow and use that as a trellis of their survival and let their fruits hung on it? A Christmas tree of growing fruits and vegetables!

The man who always loved to soil his hands and grow vegetables himself all his life overheard the lady. He kept this to himself with a smile. He was confident that this would be possible. He made that joke a reality with the support of the teaching staff of the ABC Junior High school.

This was not a big dream or big project, but something small that everyone should do regardless of age, the standard of living and what not. This would be a pleasant motivation to all, specifically of the JHS students to realize that vegetables can be grown for food or even for money in any space available within our surroundings. The Calabash on its productive days is worth viewing.

A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, also called Tambuwali or Balantiyong in our locality, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil.

Ampalaya,  stringbeans, sweet pepper, tomatoes, patola and the like will soon bloom by its sides. Christmas Tree in Vegetables only in Andres Bonifacio College, the Pioneer Builder of Leaders.

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