Maintaining vegetable plants in my garden, also to keep the planting medium good with organic fertilizer.
Maybe we can't change the environment with ourselves. But with small actions that are also done by others, it will have a big impact on the environment. We can apply it around us, activities that are closest to our activities, for example by gardening at home.
There are so many ways to make plants grow well. Many people use chemical fertilizers to boost the size and quantity of the harvest. Even so, of course, it has a bad impact on the environment.
When I decided to garden, I was determined to use organic fertilizer in my garden. It's not a matter of the size and quantity of the harvest. But I want to avoid chemicals as much as possible since this activity is for my kitchen table. I also heard that chemical fertilizers will damage the soil in the long term, also pests will attack more easily and plants become vulnerable to attack.
As long as I garden, it's very exciting to be able to apply organic farming. For organic fertilizer, I use compost, liquid fertilizer from liquid compost, egg shell powder, and also manure. I combine all of them or sometimes I only use manure because in my village the manure material is still available.
You can see the results yourself, I have posted videos about my organic garden on my YouTube channel. Like the one I just posted, I posted about growing pak choy with maximum results even though I only use one type of fertilizer until harvest. You can see my video here, available on some subtitles, about How To Grow Bok Choy From Seeds To Harvest:
So, for today, I will invite you to see my activities in caring for vegetable plants in my garden using organic fertilizer.
First, I will fertilize broccoli plants that are two weeks old after transplanting. This fertilization is the first fertilization phase for my broccoli plants.
Before fertilizing, I clean the weeds. Also, I do pruning 2-3 of the bottom leaves. Then next, I add enough manure.
After broccoli, I also did the second fertilization on the cauliflower plants. These cauliflowers are getting bigger. They are 5 weeks old after transplanting. Just like broccoli plants, I also pruned the bottom leaves of these cauliflower plants, also cleaning weeds.
After finishing with the cauliflower plants and broccoli plants, next, I went to the shallot plants. This time it was different with the planting method that I did. If previously I did the method of growing shallots from bulbs, then this time I grew shallots from seeds.
This is what the shallot plants that I planted from seeds look like. They are already two weeks old after being transplanted. So, I have to fertilize them.
Don't forget to loosen the soil around the shallot plants carefully. Because they have roots that do not penetrate the soil long, so be careful they can be pulled out of the planting medium.
These are the shallot plants that have been given manure. Hopefully, they can grow optimally and produce bulbs.
Besides broccoli, cauliflower plants, and also shallots, I also gave fertilizer to cherry tomato plants, yesterday. But not giving them manure. For tomato plants, still 12 days old after transplanting. I added eggshell powder.
So, today was quite an exciting day in my organic garden. Have you done any gardening today?
Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari
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