Hello friends in Hive Garden Community, today is Sunday and that means I will have fun in the garden all day, my children and husband cannot help today because they will go to the car repair shop to do maintenance and also replace tires that have worn out. I am alone in the garden accompanied by the chickens pacing back and forth to see if I get any worms from my hoeing 😇😇😇 Today I plan to dismantle some of my ginger trees, the last few weeks it has been raining all the time, I need a lot of ginger to make a warm drink. The ginger that I harvest is the ginger that I plant in the garden and it looks bushy because I don't take care of it. There are only about 15 ginger trees here. I usually plant ginger in polybags, but I'm experimenting with sandy soil. I want to see the difference between growing ginger in sandy soil and the slightly clay soil I usually use for growing ginger.
I didn't expect to harvest a lot of 5 month old ginger in my garden, based on my experimental results it turned out that planting ginger was better on slightly sandy soil than on clay soil.This is also due to the use of salt on my ginger plants.
I never use manufactured fertilizers for plants in my garden. But I use salt to speed up the growth of plants in my garden. Salt is also a mineral that is needed by plant growth, that's why I use salt as a substitute for factory fertilizers. The result is that the amount of ginger production increases and the banana plants in the garden have bigger fruits.
The salt that I use is salt that has a rough texture, in Indonesia this salt is usually used to make ice cream.
To use salt as a substitute for manufactured fertilizer, we cannot just spread it carelessly, because there are rules, if it is not used properly, the plant leaves will wither and the roots will rot.
The way I use salt to help plant growth is:
1.Use salt after one month of planting time for plants that we will take the fruit for example for ginger and pineapple plants. As for the plants that we will take the leaves for, such as spinach and cassava plants (I plant cassava for the leaves), I give salt after the plant leaves start to grow a few strands.
I don't throw away the dry leaves that fall around the plants, I use them as organic fertilizer, the dry leaves will rot quickly and make the soil more fertile.
2.Sprinkle salt around the plants, try not to get on the leaves, just sprinkle it thinly around the plants.
3.Use salt during the rainy season, usually I use salt as a substitute for manufactured fertilizers when the rainy season arrives. During the dry season, I don't use salt, because it will cause the roots to rot. Don't forget to do it in the evening or in the morning before sunrise.
I hope that a few tips from me for gardening can help increase the production and results of your gardening friends.
