Growing your vegetables, spices, and other crops will surely help you save, just like we did. Even before my husband works at the Provincial Agriculture we already had our mini garden at home.
When hubby had more knowledge about gardening he was interested in growing more different kinds of plants at home. I remember how he started gardening before. He didn't know how to plant ginger. I wondered why I didn't see any progress after a few days of planting it. So I tried to dig the soil to find out why it didn't grow. To my surprise hubby planted it so deep. The reason why I didn't see any progress in what he planted. Just like what he did to the bitter gourd seeds. I remember seeds usually grow 3-4 days after sowing it. So I also had to dig into it to find out why it is not yet growing.
For now, he gained more knowledge on how to plant and take care of the plants properly. I helped him in some ways like searching for the proper ways to prune the plants and also I did research on what to use as an organic spray for our plants.
Hubby also learns how to vermicast or vermicomposting. It is the processing of organic wastes through earthworms. Hubby added the vermicast to the soil to help absorb and retain moisture. Vermicast contains myriad nutrients that are plant-available and released gradually into the soil.
He also uses rice hull. We all know that rice hull is nontoxic and biodegradable. Carbonized Rice Hull is a perfect soil fertilizer and conditioner as it contains Phosphorous (P), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), and micronutrients vital to growing crops.
So for now, we have still growing plants at home like bitter gourd, tomatoes, string beans, bell pepper, sword pepper, ginger, eggplant, spring onions,pechay, and squash.
We also have fruit-bearing trees like avocados. One of them was given by my mother that we planted almost a year ago and two of them were just recently planted. The two of them were from my husbands' workplace and I guess it has a different variety from the other one because they have different shapes of their leaves.
Hubby also got four lemon plants and he planted them in our front yard.
Hopefully, we can plant or grow more different kinds of vegetables and fruit-bearing trees. I know it usually takes around 10 years to wait for it to bear fruits or I guess it depends on the kinds of fruits.
Anyways before I forgot I saw another squash from our squash plant. I thought we only have two but luckily there's one more. I was trying to search for more the other day but the bush is too thick so I just decided not to for my safety. I might find snakes in there LOL.
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Published: 7/26/2023 3:06 pm (GMT)
