After the dry season passed at the end of last September, now we are entering the month of October which is a month filled with rainy season weather and I am @deltasteem from Indonesia who working as a furniture maker and gardening.
Every day after my day job as a furniture maker, I often use the rest of the afternoon to do activities in my plantations which is located on the edge of the rice fields of the village where I live and my started to open a plantations in the beginning of last May and at first my it was just to take advantage of my free time after my daily work as furniture maker and also just to fill my free time on work days off.
The location where I grow crops is a garden location next to the graves of our ancestors who have been abandoned for a dozen years and is also a banana garden area filled with green grass bushes and also the location of the garden is close to the village rice which are only a few meters from the village irrigation lip.
Every day sometimes I only use time 1 hour in the morning and also sometimes I only use time 1 hour in the afternoon after I get home from work and in the morning before I go to work and this outside of works days off for activities in that agricultural .
Although both my parents are village farmers but I don't have much experience in agriculture and this is the first time I try gardening and last May after I cleaned the green grass for a few days, after that I made a guardrail using wood that I searched for in the local forest environment and at that time, when I was preparing the soil, I forgot to take pictures until the process of sowing the seeds of chili plants, eggplant, long beans, cucumbers and several other agricultural crops.
Today I want to invite you to look a little further in my agricultural crop journal parts 1 in this October which is the month of the rainy season.
The strategic location of my garden with black soil which is a former abandoned banana garden overgrown with green grass looks so fertile that some of my plants look so green without having to use a lot of fertilizer.
This weekend after raining consecutively for the last few days until last night I spent almost a day tending to some of my plants in the farm environment because some of the seeds of long beans and eggplants that I planted in the old cemetery area the agricultural area was flooded by rainwater overflowing from the village irrigation rim.
The long bean plant that I planted in small quantities is one of the agricultural plants that cannot be flooded, so I have to move it to another place.
And after I finished circling the farm location I finally decided to move that plant seeds to two different places,for the eggplant seeds, I took the new place in the row of former spinach plants that I finished harvesting last week.
I made a hole for the eggplant seed about the size of the eye of a shovel.
And today my mother is not so busy at home so my mother helps me move that flooded vegetable seeds to another place.
And for some of the long bean seeds that were pooled around it, I moved it right next to it in a slightly higher ground location from the original place.
And it looks like last night when it rained some chili and sweet potato seeds were also flooded for several hours and I noticed all of that in the morning from the former puddles of water that were so moist to the rest of the garbage stuck to the leaves of the chili seeds.
Maybe in this rainy season I should visit my plants more often in the agricultural environment so that they can grow well and also dig a few drainage holes so that when the volume of irrigation water overflows into the agricultural area, the surrounding plants are not flooded and in a farming environment, I plant seeds at the same time and you can see it all by the way they grow and one of them is a long chili plant.
Some of my chilies have started to grow flower buds with very green leaf surface textures and these plants grow so fertile without any fertilizer application.
And also some of my eggplant plants that I plant in the farm fence environment also seem to be growing so fertile this season.
And my farm environment, I also planted some green seeds in those plants environment and they also seem to be growing well.
And some of those green bean plants are also starting to put out some young fruit buds which are so fresh and they are also one of my plants that are growing so fertile.
While on the south side of my farm yard, you can find some 2 piles of spinach plants that are ready for me to harvest tomorrow morning and they look so fresh.
And in the row of fences on the south side of the farm that borders the cornfield I planted some cucumber plants because they are vines, so I purposely planted them in the fence row area and the fence became a place for them to grow by creeping along it.
And the cucumber plant is also one of my agricultural crops that I take care of free from fertilizers that I plant in small quantities and I have also harvested that cucumbers several times.
This is my first agricultural journal this October which is a month filled with rainy season weather and all these farm crops have been mine for the past few months, hope you enjoy my first publication in my farming environment this week and all the plants that exist in the agricultural environment are plants that I free from fertilizer application and only for our own consumption.
How lucky to have such fertile lands!!! Yes drainage sounds like a good idea..
thank you and hopefully my plants can grow so fertile and free from fertilization :)
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It's looking great. I hope you get a good crop of produce.
Thank you and I hope so too :)
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Beautiful photos, @deltasteem ! I enjoy very much this virtual tour of your garden: I love seeing your cucumbers... really lovely space, and incredible-looking rich soil (like our dark soil in Scotland)... I hope your plants settle in nicely to their new positions, and yes, it sounds like it would be good planning to make some kind of irrigation for water to drain off, or to drain more slowly into the soil - perhaps like a permaculture swale and berm? :-) Very good wishes to you,
Clare.
cucumber :)
. thank you for your warm words, friends and for the process of making drainage water excavation, it may be a little slow because in an agricultural environment, I only take advantage of the free time from my job as a furniture maker :) and maybe I need to pay some workers to make the process faster and warm greetings to you there too :)