I have wanted to start my own garden for as long as I can remember. I dreamt of a garden full of vegetables: petsay, tomatoes, string beans, carrots and raddish, pepper etc. I have studied the how tos over the internet but watching a local Agri Dabaw of a barangay helped me to finally start my own. (Aliontongs experience into organic gardening)
1. Composting: There is so much biodegradable material around our small backyard plus garden clippings and kitchen vegetable scraps. Our rambutan tree has so much foliage that has to be trimmed regularly to have a good harvest. To compost the material I used a simple chicken wire and bars. This allows for air to circulate. Initial efforts to decompost did not work because I had only one pile and newer material is piled on top. Now I have 5 “boxes”
of compost with the one at the back as the older pile. Mistakes I learned: compost has to be watered regularly so that it will not be dry nor should it be soggy. I have to turn the material to decompose properly.
2. Seedling Preparation: Anticipating the soil from compost to be ready soon I can now prepare my seeds for planting starting with petsay. Here I used a plastic egg box for my seedling beed. If this seeds will germinate, then in 10 days it would be ready for planting. I will also need to prepare an organic pesticide and I am thinking of pepper (siling labuyo) and raddish mixture.
3. Wait and See
I have been searching everywhere on the internet for this specific information. Finally I find it here! Thanks.
Wow, cool site. I’ll be back to read more that’s for sure.
Hi Bette! I’ve been following your blog, and I got so inspired I started mine.
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I sure would like to hear your thoughts and suggestions on what would make good articles for them =) Myco said I should grow it from just being a personal blog com journal into something that would interest others.
Please paki gawa na rin ng link (i don’t even know if this is the right words or terms to use), para naman pag may bumisita sa blog mo and see the link to mine, medyo ma bibisita naman sa ‘kin. Malungkot pa, wala pa masaydong bumibisita.
Hope all is well with you =)
Miss and love you,
Tina
Nice job you’ve done on your site – are you having fun with it? It’s interesting and well worth the time to visit.
My first batch of seeds went well initially but became so soggy and many of the seedlings died. About 4 survived so I have replanted a new batch with the help of my kids and I added okra seeds.