Hello Gardeners Lover, How are you today? I hope we are all always healthy so we can take care of the garden and continue to make our earth green, a beautiful green planet. July is coming soon and that means in most areas in Indonesia will start harvesting rambutan fruit. The rambutan fruit will usually start to flower in March and will start harvesting in July. It's been three weeks that I haven't posted on Hive garden, because I'm very busy with my work. Finally today I can go back to the garden.
Harvesting rambutans
I found that the rambutans in my garden are starting to ripen, I will try one, this is the first rambutan fruit of the season.
Even though it's not fully ripe (not red yet), the rambutan fruit has a sweet taste. It feels like one fruit is not enough when enjoying rambutan, I will choose a few more rambutans😂😂😂
I started checking the garden, there were lots of weeds growing and starting to take over the land in the garden.
Mucuna bracteata weed
This weed is in the form of vines, its growth is so fast, especially when it rains, its fibrous roots begin to grip the ground. This weed is a source of nitrogen elements that are useful for plants, therefore, these weeds are usually deliberately planted in oil palm plantations to increase soil fertility. This weed is a legume plant, has the scientific name Mucuna bracteata. Traditional farmers usually use this plant as a natural fertilizer for plant growth in gardens.
These weeds spread and cover their host plants, so that the host plants can die because they don't get direct sunlight.
Even so, this weed is very useful for maintaining soil moisture, I noticed that the soil where we used to grow this weed became more moist and wetter.
I also use the leaves of this weed for carp feed, because the leaves are not hairy, the carp want to eat them.
Utilization of Mucuna bracteata weed for fertilizer
Traditional farmers usually use all parts of the plant for fertilizer, starting from the roots, stems, leaves and flowers. There are several ways you can do it, the first way is by chopping these weeds and mixing these weeds with manure, the second way is burning these weeds and spreading them around the plants. There are also farmers who just cut these weeds and spread them around the plants.Usually I use the third method, the simple method is cutting weeds and placing them around the plants. I'm going to use this method to moisten the soil around the rambutan tree. First I'm going to take some mucuna weed herbs.
Then I cut the weeds into smaller pieces.
Then I put these weed cuttings around the rambutan tree.
This simple method can help keep the rambutan tree moist during the dry season. This weed is also a dry fertilizer that can help rambutan trees absorb nitrogen.
I think I will enjoy this sweet and fresh rambutan fruit until February, because the rambutan trees in my garden bear fruit unevenly, one tree is just starting to ripen its fruit and two other trees are just starting to flower.
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@umirais
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Hello!
Whenever I see something about this fruit called rambutan, it always catches my attention and makes me very curious to try it because we don't have it here. So I would love to try it someday.
And how interesting what you say about those weeds as a natural fertilizer.
yes our city of Binjai is the city of Indonesia's rambutan, because we have the best rambutan in Indonesia, thick fruit meat with a little water and taste sweet like sugar @coquicoin
That sounds delicious. I hope I can try that fruit someday.
I don't know how much it costs to send to your country, you can pay the postage with Hive to me, I will be happy to send it to your country, if you are interested I will ask the post office how much it costs to send rambutan to your home @coquicoin
You are so kind! I think I live too far away. I live in Venezuela ;) And also, I don't think is possible to send by postage service any fresh food. But thank you so much 🤗
Hello @umirais I don't know this fruit tree but it strikes me that this wild plant can be used to fertilize it. Thanks for showing us this valuable practice of natural fertilizer.
You are welcome, I don't use manufactured fertilizers in my garden because I often go to the forest and see piles of leaves and dry twigs that become natural fertilizer and the forest becomes fertile @alborhada
My favorit fruit
yes and soon the rambutan fruit will start to ripen @maytom
I planted rambutan on my old vegetable garden, sadly it didn't thrive since water is frequent in the place where I planted them, they both died.
I was sad to hear it, but all of my rambutan trees were on a catfish pond, some of its roots were in the fish pond and all rambutan trees bear thick fruit @afterglow
It's okay, maybe I just have to find other place when I plan to plant rambutan again.
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