GARLIC PROPAGATION

Garlic can grow all year round in a mild climate. It is possible to cultivate garlic by sexual type of propagation, but you may also consider asexual process of propagation based upon the climate and the healthy soil as well. In cold climates, cloves are planted in the fall, about six weeks before the soil freezes, and harvested in late spring. Garlic plants are usually very hardy, and are not attacked by many pests or diseases. Garlic plants are said to repel rabbits and moles. Two of the major pathogens that attack garlic are nematodes and white rot disease, which remain in the soil indefinitely after the ground has become infected. Garlic also can suffer from pink root, a typically nonfatal disease that stunts the roots and turns them pink or red.

1.       Shatter a garlic bulb separately into individual cloves; just be cautious to keep the papery skins covering each clove unbroken.

2.       Mix in 1 tablespoon of baking soda and 1 tablespoon of liquid seaweed with one quart of water.

3.       Saturate the cloves in this mixture for 2 hours prior to planting to prevent fungal disease and persuade hearty development.

4.       Prepare your bed for planting. Garlic grows best in rich, well-drained soil that is free of weeds.

5.       Dig a channel about 3 inches deep. Place the presoaked cloves into the furrow, spacing them from 6 to 8 inches apart.

6.       Cover the cloves with 2 inches of soil and side-dress the furrow with compost or scratch in granulated organic fertilizer.

7.        Water the bed in well and cover it with 6 to 8 inches of straw mulch. You should see shoots poking through the mulch in 4 to 6 weeks. Remember that garlic stops growing in the winter months and resumes in spring.

Happy vegetable gardening!!!

 SOURCE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic
http://www.garlicworld.co.uk/garden/page2.html

USE AND REUSE- THE GARDENER’S SMARTEST WAY

 Leftovers are not giving attention by some people, so they are being dump from somewhere or in a trash can. We are not thinking what happens next if you are going to eat a yummy fruit again. Due to scarcity of foods, many people around the world are starving for food. 

So you should bear in mind that you can use and reuse your fruits, leaves and trunks to renovate anew. That is why smart gardeners are thinking of a feasible way of reusing crop leftovers.

For example, in the process of marcotting, you can use again the old trunks to connect with other crops so that it will give another feasible fruit. The process of asexual propagation is one of the best way to restore matured trunks.

Furthermore, you can also do the fruit cuttings like in a pineapple. Cut the head part which has plants and put in a water for a while and bingo!!! You can now put in a pot and pres the soil through your fingertips.

You can also consider the trunk planting like in a malunggay plant. Cut the matured trunks and shave the latter part so that will give a little moist to the soil. Dig a one inch hole and plant the malunggay’s trunk and press it lightly by your feet or by your fingertips.

If you peeling a fruit do not dump it anywhere and make a container and label it as a biodegradable wastes and you can dump it on your fields. This will help you to make compost in the near future. Just to be sure that your wastes are well dump so that maggots and other insects will not ruin your sites and your neighbors as well.

Good luck and happy gardening!!!

SOURCE:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112118861354873908587/posts

SWEET POTATO CULTIVATION

 Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Linn.) is a staple food and a well-known food in the Philippines. This provides steady income by both farmers and gardeners, since it grows all-year-round. Sweet potatoes can grow to a length of two or more meters and matures up to 4-7 months.

Land Preparation

Plow the field once if the field is sandy. If the soil is clay, plow it twice. Plowing is done 20 days before planting. Till the field to remove those weeds and pulverize the soil.  Furrows are laid out one meter apart. Allow 25 cm distance between furrows and mark it with a string. For every one meter length of the row, broadcast 2 tablespoons of 14-14-14 plus one milk can of compost.

Planting

Vine cuttings of sweet potatoes are used in the propagation process in the Philippines. The length of cutting ranges from 30 to 45 cm.

Fertilizer Application

a.       Sandy Soil. 3 to 4 bags of ammophos plus 3 bags muriate of potash.

b.      Loamy Soil. 3 to 4 bags of ammophos(16-20-0) plus 3 bags muriate of potash in the furrow of planting time.

c.       Clay Soil. 3 to 4 bags of complete fertilizer (14-14-14) plus 3 bags muriate of potash or 3 to 4 bags of ammophos  (16-20-0) plus 3 bags muriate of potash.

The safest kind of fertilizer is organic fertilizers and should be added to the soil for the best result.

Weeding and Cultivation

Remove the weeds thoroughly and irrigate the field once a week, three weeks before harvesting.

CAUTION:

Do not harvest green-colored sweet potatoes because it is inedible and poisonous... 

Happy gardening!!!

AMPALAYA CULTIVATION

Ampalaya (Momordica charantia), also called bitter melon. Its texture is like a mature crop and the bitterness of taste connotes in this crop. Ampalaya is a well known for its medical usage for all diebetics. 

For you to be able to start planting ampalaya, you should:

1.    Fill at least 3-inch peat cups within the lightweight soil in a pot.

2.    Plant one ampalaya seed in each cup, at a depth equal to half its width. push down the soil lightly by using your fingertips/

3.    Place the peat cups in a ventilated location so that it increases the feasibility that your ampalaya crops will survive. The recommended temperature for your ampalaya crops should be at least 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

4.    Prepare your preferred garden site and dig the soil 6-8 inches deep by using a tiller or fork.

5.    Mix 5-10-10 fertilizer with the soil, at a rate of 30 lbs. for every 1,000 square feet of space.

6.    Mix the loose soil with 3-4 inches layer of organic fertilizers.

7.    Dig the hole twice the width of the ampalaya’s root. Be sure that those ampalya seedlings should not be frost.

8.    Water until the garden soil is moist down to the roots.

9.    Make a sturdy fence in your plot, 3-4 inches in between, so that the ampalaya vines can be able to free themselves to grow.

10.  Water them thoroughly so that ampalaya can grow

11.    Fertilize with ammonium nitrate, at a rate of 1 lb. to each 100 foot row, just as the vines begin rapid growth and again when fruit starts to form.

Take note of this, you should harvest ampalaya before it turns to yellow. So be careful for your crops.

Bitter is better… for your body. Happy gardening!!!

SOURCE:

http://www.ehow.com/how_8584331_plant-ampalaya.html 

HOW FLOWERS PROLONGS ITS BEAUTY?

Many of us wondering about how flowers and insects interacts with each other every time and every single day. The amazing glow of flowers in your pot or in your patio garden takes place as their guardian insects like bees, butterflies, moths, etc elongating the life of your flowers. That’s what we called pollination.

Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred in the reproduction of plants, thereby enabling fertilization and sexual reproduction. So the insects act as the transporter of flower’s pollen grain. This enables to prolong generating process of you flowers.

Types of Pollination

For our scientific analysis, pollination can characterize by:

a.       Cross-pollination, also called allogamy, occurs when pollen is delivered to a flower from a different plant. Plants adapted to outcross or cross-pollinate often have taller stamens than carpels or use other mechanisms to better ensure the spread of pollen to other plants' flowers.

b.      Self-pollination occurs when pollen from one flower pollinates the same flower or other flowers of the same individual.

c.       Cleistogamy: is self-pollination that occurs before the flower opens.

Just like in human reproductive system, insects acts as the giver and the flower as producer. Just makes sense.

However, please do not use pesticides in your flowery garden it might kill the insects. It also kills your flowers as well.

Happy Gardening!!!!

SOURCE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollination

Video Source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U-_obSYD2A 

ILLEGAL GARDENING: THE CANNABIS INVASION

Not all plants and crops are ligible to cultivate in your garden. As a gardener, you should bear in mind regarding the rules and regulations of our government.

In a country like Philippines, you can dig your garden unless you are not disobeying the law.

What I am saying is all about planting cannabis or so called marijuana. The Philippine government was so eager to catch those cannabis users and planters to stop the cause of several crimes.

Medical Usage of Cannabis(Marijuana)

Cannabis can cure:

1.       amelioration of nausea and vomiting

2.        stimulation of hunger in chemotherapy and AIDS patients

3.        lowered intraocular eye pressure (shown to be effective for treating glaucoma

4.       general analgesic effects (pain reliever)

Planting  Marijuana

Planting cannabis or marijuana is easy just like a typical planting of crops and can grow in a tropical country.

  

Usage of marijuana/cannabis

Just like a cigarrette, dried cannabis are being rolled in a paper and ready to pop it.

Effects of Marijuana in Our Body

On the other hand, cannabis planters are also planning to plant these probited plant within the secluded place in which no one can see it. Marijuana or cannabis is also called psychoactive drug and those effects on human are cognitive, respiratory functions and the possible relationship of cannabis use to mental disorders such as schizophrenia, psychosis, depersonalization disorder and depression are still under discussion. This is base on the study of American Journal of Epidemiology in 2011.

Marijuana as a Prohibited Drug

There are some countries who are legalizing the usage of cannabis/marijuana but some of them are don’t. Why? Simply because it’s so harmful for us to use it as listed above.

If you love your life and you want to live free… please do not use and plant marijuana. Be safe… stay as cool to plant crops but not marijuana.

SOURCE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_drug%29 

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