Dear everyone
as I have said to all of you, farming is the most enjoyable thing in life because by farming we can feel that we can be one with nature, which is a feeling that cannot be achieved without practice, farming is a noble behavior considering that it has In agriculture, many people in the world can get food easily and it is truly fortunate that our environment today still has sufficient food stocks, so I would like to thank the farmers who have taken the time to plant several productive plants for my and all of your living needs.
Likewise with me, today I want to do something useful for my life, I do this at the residence where I live, usually I farm in the garden but today I do it in the yard, I try to do something near the house to make The ground around it felt cool so I tried planting this creeper in the hope of getting cool soil and fresh fruit in the future.
Are you familiar with the plants I cultivate today?
yeah, I'm sure some of you are very familiar with the vines that I will plant today, you are right, this is "Sweet Potato" which is a type of tropical plant that grows by vines which is very useful for maintaining the fertility and coolness of the soil, This plant has been known to our people from generation to generation since the last century, this plant is also believed to be a substitute food for the majority of people who consume rice as a staple food, such as the people of Indonesia and several other countries.
so today I planted sweet potatoes in a small container, namely in a container made of bamboo, let's see my routine for planting sweet potatoes;
This is a container that I have prepared for planting sweet potatoes.
The fermented soil that I have prepared is a mixture of rotten straw and husk ash.
I have filled the fermented soil in the planting container.
These are the seeds I sowed a month ago and now they have grown as I expected.
if you look closely at the sweet potato seeds.
I have cut the sweet potato stems to plant them in the new container that I prepared earlier.
yeah I have succeeded in planting several sweet potato stalks in the new container that I have prepared, hopefully my sweet potatoes can grow well and do a lot in the future.
Sweet potatoes, Javanese yams, general yams, petatas, cassava, or yam (Ipomoea batatas) are a type of cultivated plant. The part used is the roots which form tubers with high levels of nutrients (carbohydrates). In Africa, sweet potato tubers are an important staple food source. In Asia, apart from using the tubers, the young leaves of sweet potatoes are also used as vegetables. There are also sweet potatoes which are used as ornamental plants because of the beauty of their leaves. Wikipedia
To plant sweet potatoes you don't need to worry about land at all because this plant doesn't require a large area of land to cultivate it, you only need to have 1m x 1.5 of land. You already have enough land to plant sweet potatoes, this plant can be said to be very unique because apart from It has fruit as a highly nutritious food, but this plant also decorates your home environment when this plant flowers. It's really great, isn't it? So are you starting to be interested in planting sweet potatoes on your terrace?
Thank you very much for your visit to my blog, that's my farming routine today, and see you in the next post with different plants.
Love you all 💓💓