mic testing 1...2...3...

last June, 2008 we started some test plots for organic vegetable. we bought some seeds from ramgo and AANI (east-west seeds) and planted it in our farm.





here are some pictures of the test plots.

these pictures were taken a month after we started. as you can see the soil in baras is reddish and the quality is clayish. i observed that clayish soil is very extreme... super dry when it is summer or even when it does not rain for a few days and super dense (malagkit) when it is wet or watered.

my own conclusion is... it does not hold water (which means it does not hold nutrients as well) and when it is wet or watered, it is super dense (malagkit) which suffocates the roots of the plants.

EVERYBODY NEEDS SOME FRESH AIR DONTCHA THINK SO?!!! =)

MAY I PLEASE CLARIFY THAT I AM A NEOPHYTE FARMER, A NEWBIE, A BEGINNER, A FRUSTRATED FARMER, A DREAMER AND AT MOST... A CONCERNED FATHER... so please do not take my conclusions as expert opinion.

i post my blogs to share my experiments, my research, my journey and observations through organic farming and also to solicit advise and suggestions from fellow hobbyist, experts and industry gurus.

ang ampalaya.... (bitter gourd)

ang sitaw... (string beans)

we were not that successful in these test plots. we need to fertilize the soil before continuing this experiment.

which brings us to raising free range sunshine chickens... why?... because rice hull or saw dust plus organic chicken dung should be mixed with the soil to fertilize it... farm integration 101 huh? =)

why sunshines?... you will find out from future blogs. =)