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My post today to join the #Garden Journal Challenge in September with admin 
TREATMENT OF RAMBUTAN PLANT AND BANANA PLANT
During this hot weather, several types of leaf caterpillars began to attack the plants in my garden. At first these caterpillars will attack the leaves and then the plant stems until the plants die slowly due to lack of nutrients.
I noticed that the leaves of the plants that were attacked by these caterpillars began to have holes little by little, if I let them, the rambutan tree would die. I have to take care of the rambutan trees in my garden. But I can't use chemical drugs to eradicate leaf caterpillars that attack plants, because my chickens live in the garden, if I use chemical compounds from the manufacturer, I'm afraid it will harm the pet chickens living in the garden. I will use the traditional method, although it takes a long time but this method has proven to be effective, namely by burning dry banana leaves or burning dry coconut husks and directing the smoke to the part of the plant that is attacked by caterpillars. In this way the caterpillars will die slowly and the leaves of the plant will be healthy again.
After I take care of the Rambutan tree, next I will do maintenance on the banana tree in my garden, I like gardening, that's why I don't hire other people to take care of my garden, I take care of the plants in the garden with the help of my children when they are on school holidays.
I will wrap the bananas that are in my garden so that they are safe from attacks by my pet chickens😂😂😂
I will also take a banana heart/banana flower, so that the banana fruit grows better and grows faster. This banana flower is the part that no longer has bananas (the tip of the fruit).
I will process this banana heart/banana flower into cooking, I will make delicious banana heart/flower curry.
HARVEST CATFISH
When I was in the garden, it didn't feel like it was already dusk, I hadn't cooked dinner yet. I will take some catfish from the pond, this pond is in my garden.
I will burn dry twigs and a few pieces of wood to grill the catfish.
I will also take some noni tree branches to pierce the catfish so I can roast them.
It looks like there are coals of fire, I immediately grilled the catfish for today's side dish.
While waiting for the catfish to cook, I will harvest sweet and fresh bananas and rambutan fruit.
HARVEST BANANA AND RAMBUTAN FRUIT
At first I didn't see any ripe bananas on the tree, because they weren't visible on one side and were covered in leaves. But after I observed, it turned out that there were ripe bananas on the tree. I immediately took a machete and harvested the ripe bananas.
I also climbed a rambutan tree and took some red rambutan fruits.
Today's harvest of bananas and rambutans fruits.
My pet chickens can still eat the bananas that are ripe on the tree, this is because I don't wrap the fruit tightly. I smell the sweet aroma of grilled catfish. Children love catfish that comes from their own pond.
That's my gardening activity today. Thank you for reading my post.
