Good day my fellow Steemians !
Today I would like to share somthing with you about farming in the Philippines.
For starters, our weather here in the Philippines is mostly nice and sunny which is ideal for plants.
Since our farm is located in the lowlands and consists of a clay loam type soil the suitable crop for the land would be tobacco.
Did you know that philippines exports tobacco?
But Since I stopped smoking and do not want to further support and promote the tobacco industry due to all the negative health problems smoking causes, I decided to plant vegtables instead.
So first off, to get started planting we have to prep the soil by going over it once or twice with a tractor. Since its a clay type soil we will have to use different implements.
Now after the help of the tractor the soil has to be fine tuned. For this to take place we need to ask the services of MR.Beefy our two and half year old mean lean plowing machine.
After plowing the field Mr.Beefy gets to go back grazing. :)
Thanks to our biological plowing machine the field now looks like this.
After the soil has been tended to, we can get started on the seeding part.
After the seedlings are a week old we can start with the pure organic fertelizing.
This chocolate looking mixture is cow dung deluted in water. A big thanks goes out to Mr.Beefy for the daily contributions.
On a weekly interval the crops are being watered with this rich mixture.
In addition to the fertilizing we spray a daily composition of organic home made insect repelants. After about one month we are able to see the outcome.
This is Atsal a filipino native bellpepper used in many different local dishes.
And not to forget black pavito petchay. Very healthy and extremly tasty when boiled in beef soup ( Bulalo ).
Since petchay is a cash crop it can be harvested within 20 to 25 days, unlike the Atsal which takes 3 to 4 months to grow its first crop.
The point in farming, is not to think about how much you will earn at the end of each croping but just to have fun and to take well care of the plants and animals and ofcourse to share some of the blessing you have received on to your community.
See....this is how fun farming is. :D
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