May 27, 2020

Urban Gardening - Another Update

Remember that I started building our small urban vegetable garden at home just before the Enhanced Community Quarantine took effect.

Since then, I harvested lots of veggies like string beans, tomatoes, and eggplants. Here is a short update on our urban garden.

Eggplants
Before, I only have two pots of eggplants.

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Eggplants in large pails.
I added four more pots and now they are matured and started flowering. Growing eggplants is simple using indirect seeding.  
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Eggplants' flower
 Lettuce

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Lettuce: Ready to harvest.
After several tries, I finally succeed in growing lettuce
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Harvested lettuce.
Instead of harvesting by pulling the entire plant, I do pruning matured leaves and let it grow continuously until next harvest. I already harvested 3 times.
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Lettuce after prunning

Okra
There are pots of okra plants.
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Okra plants
They are starting to bear flower. After a few weeks, I will be picking the fruits from them.
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Okra: Starting to bloom.
Ampalaya
The ampalaya is getting better now and starting bearing fruits. 
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Ampalaya, continuously growing.
Aside from the fruits, leaves were also collected.

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Ampalaya: Waiting to be harvested. 
Aside from using it in ginisang munggo, pruning the leaves makes the plant healthier and bear more fruits.

Corn
I had difficulty in growing corn. Once the sprout comes out of the soil, something is burrowing it getting the cotyledon.

Instead of growing it directly, I used the indirect seeding method. After two months, I noticed flowers on one of them. The ears will soon appear on the stem.

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Corn's flower
I planted more corn and they are starting to grow.
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Corn
Tomatoes
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Tomatoes
Tomatoes do not last long and need to be replaced. Before the first batch started to wilt, I started germinating seeds collected from the kitchen and now they are growing in soil mixed with papers.

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Tomatoes growing in soil mixed with paper.
I am also germinating cherry tomatoes. Once ready for transplanting, they will be joining with the other tomatoes too.

Bell Peppers
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Bell peppers
Like the tomatoes, bell peppers are already transplanted and started to grow healthy on soil mixed with paper.
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1 week after transplanting bell peppers.
Squash
There are only two squash in the garden and they are crawling on the floor.
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Squash with kankong growing using old tires.

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Cucumber
The cucumber is already growing in the old tires.
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Cucumber seedlings.
Sweet Potato or Kamote and Kangkong
Growing these plants is easy. 
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Sweet potato or kamote.
Just insert the cutting into the soil and sprouts will be observed growing after a few days.  
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Kankong in old tires.
I am collecting the taps every week and cook it directly in the kitchen.

Calamansi and Lemon
I have one calamansi and two lemons grown in a large pail separately.
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Lemon
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Calamansi with corn.
These are all grafted and hopefully bear fruits soon.

By the way, here is my new garden buddy.
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That’s all for now and I will keep updating about urban gardening.

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