Nothing is waste, nature is so beautiful, everything is given to man for use, so man just need brain to make use of them. Even the carbon dioxide that we breathe out is not waste, it's useful, for the plants around us, so if man live in an environment that is full of plant, then man have the tendency to live long because both plant and man or animal help each other, we need the oxygen they breathe out while they need the carbon dioxide we breathe out, the process good to describe as photosynthesis and respiration, so we need each other.
In the part of Nigeria that I was born and live, we do eat vegetables, has to be cooked, we don't like it raw, so we plant, depending on how big your land is. Vegetable is a plant, it serves as two purpose for us, one of them is giving fresh oxygen and the second one is serves as food. We so much love jute leaf, it's a vegetable that draws when cooked, we like solid foods, so we use it to eat solid foods so as to draw down the solid food straight to our osophagus because we believe solid food makes us stronger.
In that image above, that space painted with black and white is made to plant flower, but go flower can only give our compound beautiful look and give oxygen but it can't serve as food for us, so we decided to plant jute leaf that Yoruba people call Ewedu. Although it's still small but growing day by day. Jute leaf is green, pure green, both the leave and the small body it has is always green and it still servers as medicine, so it's perfect to have it in the garden.
In our garden, we have spaces to plant things but as I'm a busy type, I didn't have time to do that but I'm so glad I can plant the jute leaf that serves as food for us and save money to buy. In the future, I'll still plant more things, especially the holiday time, I'll find time to plant more vegetables, that saves money and I can consider planting some flowers too, to give good scents to our garden. I can consider planting flowers with like lavender scents but I don't know the kind of flower that can give me that. You have idea?