Eversince I learnt more about where my food came from and how it affects my health, I have decided to learn how to grow my own food.
Almost everyday there are food scares being reported in the news about the high levels of cancer-causing chemicals that are being used to to grow food crops in the conventional commercial farms. It seems like there is very little that we can do about it.
But for some of us who are lucky enough to have the knowledge and also the resources to produce our own food without the usage of chemicals (be they harmful or otherwise), we try our best to produce as much edible crops to feed ourselves and our families.
We can never be sure if the foods we buy from the supermarkets are truly organic and free from GMO and harmful cancer-causing chemicals. But we can at least try to rely less on commercially grown by growing our own foods.
Okinawa Spinach. Contains anthocyanin.
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Moroccan Mint. The scent reminds me of bubble gum!
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I have been growing my own food for some time now and I have learnt quite a lot on this journey of self-sustenance. In this section of my site I will share the best practices and also things to look out for when we grow edibles.
I only grow edible plants. I would rather maximise the space that I have to produce as much food as I can rather than let the space be occupied with plants that are nice to look at but doesn't sustain you.
Beautiful ghost pepper developing
Lots of white flowers
Lizard loved the flowers Licking away at the nectar
Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia)
I received 2 young seedlings of the ghost pepper from someone who has a huge community garden space. I was very grateful for it. One of them did not survive long. But the other one flourished because I finally learnt that the quality of soil matters a lot more than dealing with pests.
After a year growing my own edible plants, I learnt an important lesson: That plants are able to defend themselves if they are well nourished.
From then on all my plants are doing very well right now. Not because of fertilisers, but because of the compost that I made out of the plant-based kitchen waste that I got from home.
The leaves of the ghost pepper plant grew huge and a lot of flowers bloomed. The lizard loved licking on the pollen and nectar from the flowers. Inadvertently it helped to pollinate the flowers and now 15 pepper fruits are developing!
I am so glad because when I first started I couldn't even get my capsicum plant to survive longer than 2 months with it being completely obliterated by mealy bugs and white flies.
Now I don't even have any of those pests attacking the ghost pepper plant.
