Barakon Greigh
A short story
Barakon Greigh
It was a warm summer morning in West Pentenshire on Craterton and the ground was warm enough to plant beans. A man emerged from the backdoor of his Picasso yellow house into his yard. The house was humble and organic with one story and glassless windows towards the top of the walls. The yard was long and fenced in but the vegetation was so thick it obscured the border making it feel endless. The man was Barakon Greigh, a transporter who lived a humble and splendid life on the planet Craterton. Barakon was an alien from the nearby planet of Cratorton. His skin was blueish green and his nostrils were above his eyes and there were 6 of them. Otherwise his was physical features were the same as a humans. He grew legumes in his garden. He was good at growing legumes, even for a Hominum Brogarian, and so he filmed the process and published his videos on the superweb.
He used a small tripod that stood a foot and a half off the ground with a camera attached by a ball clip wrapped in a wind blocker. Barakon was preparing to film a video about his gardening technique for growing legumes as a teepee. The beans grown up along the posts of the teepee to create a green bean laden teepee with bright red flowers. Barakon was a master gardener and his videos were widely regarded. He enjoyed meeting people in the comments and having some extra income from posting videos but his true passion was spreading knowledge for the good of the legumes. He fliped on the camera to begin recording and began filming his video.
His video began in the shade speckled garden as The Gassoary bird chirped. He first explained the necessacity of preparing the soil to the beans liking. With a pitch fork he turned the soil creating a crumbly dark soil the beans would enjoy. Stab by stab he turned the soil in the cameras view explaining the reasoning behind a fine turned soil. After a few repititions the soil was ready and he smiled and spoke into the camera assuring viewers of the readiness of the ground and what to do next after soil preparation.
Barakon knelt wrapping a handful of 8ft poles together with twine to create the frame of the teepee. Gripping the poles with one hand He neatly wrapped the twine around the poles several times binding the poles about a foot from the end. He then threaded the twine back through each post under the looped twine holding it in place with his thumb. He tied off the loose ends and stood to place the posts in the center of a prepared section of the garden. Standing over top he splayed them out one by one until the posts were evenly spread around in a circle and the frame of the teepee was in place. Then one by one he went around to each pole and pushed the poles down atleast 6 inches into the ground to account for wind. After secured, he wrapped the twine around the teepee horizontally about 30cm above the ground and wrapped around each pole giving the plants something to grab on to. With the poles in place he could plant the legumes.
He walked back to a small shack attached to the side of his house, which had a small greenhouse itself attached on the end. Once in the greenhouse he fetched a rack of “bittle fin” legumes (garpacuiuud fopachean). The legume seedlings were in a rectangular shaped pot that was about 1 2/3 inches deep and was filled 2/3 of the way up with potting soil. The soil had a red hue to it. The plants stood 2-3 inches tall and spread across the entire surface of the pot. He carried out it to the place in the garden where he had set his other materials and placed it on the ground. His spade shovel, which had a yellow handle and blue head, was worn from use and showed the raw metal from where the paint had been worn away from use. He used it to dig a hole at the base of each pole about 3 inches deep. Next he popped a seedling out from pot and placed one in each hole and patted it down with his hands and the spade until firmly in place at the base of each pole. All the while explaning his process to the camera.
Next the freshly planted bean seedlings needed to be watered. Barakon walked over to the hose that was rolled up and hanging next to the enterance of he shack. He unforoud it and opened up the facet and walked back over to the bean teepee. He squeezed the trigger on the hose and a mist of water sprayed out over the seedlings and teepee posts until the ground was satuarated. With that he was finished planting a new teepee with 8 bean seedlings planted next to each post. He delivered his bean tutorial conclusion and turned off recording on his video camera. He picked up the hose and rolled it back up while he walked towards it’s holder and placed it back hanging where he got it. He want back to grab the camera and tripod and looked over his newely created bean teepee structure. With a feeling of accomplishment he ducked back inside his childhood home. His garden was kept, like many others, to help supplement daily living costs and help the natural pollinating insects to thrive. His main job was transporting but that only required going to work for a week or so out of the month all at once, transporting goods to Earth through The Aldren Span.