Naturally Home Grown

Merry Christmas & God bless you

One of the useful ornamental plants that you can grow from home.

Biiig basil leaves

We learned that sweet basil loves a lot water (but be sure the soil is well drained), sunshine and very fertile soil mix

Compost net made of sturdy plastic green screens.

Just place wet and dry leaves inside the net. Regularly wet the pile of leaves with water if it gets dry. After 3-6 months you will your new loam soil with healthy microorganism

Compost net is durable. Washable. Easy to store.

Finally found what has been eating our sweet basil leaves. Been searching for this caterpilar

This may become a beautiful moth or butterfly but we had to remove this and say goodbye. otherwise we wont have any basil leaves for our dishes

Tarragon is a species in the sunflower family 🌻

It's time to let these mother basil plants go. Their leaves are getting smaller. These plants are no longer productive

It's time to grow new mother plants to supply our needs ⛅️🌤☀️

Growing more of these korean wild chives ⛅️🌤☀️


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Such a joy to take care of sweet basil. Ang bango bango, masarap pa

But we had problems initially. Lots of problems. The seedlings we bought from a nursery had a lot of pests that ate the rest of our basil and then fungi grew (not sure if came with the seedling or coz it was so rainy then)

So we have a separate area for our basil under rehab. Basil ward

Thru propagation, pruning and selecting quality potting medium and exposing these to lots of sunlight, with much prayer for wisdom, we now we healthy basil plants again.

Some are still unhealthy but by God's grace with our basic role to provide TLC, these will soon be healthy once again.

IT IS A MOVEMENT! RAISING UP JOSEPHS FOR THE END-TIME.
Did you miss the first run? Then you missed half of your life. No kidding!

Covid-19 made all of us realize that health is wealth. It is about time we seriously grow our own food and make food our medicine. And it is easy, practical and ultra-low cost. Healthy because it does away with deadly and expensive chemical farm inputs. Not to mention that by doing natural farming, we help heal our environment.
Now, don't miss this second run. Registration is open.

https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSf7yR8TlmOpzc.../viewform

There is no other way to learn gardening by trying it out and having the ❤️ to learn from
available resources ... including youtube 😊

Coz our desire is to ensure our food and nutrient security during this crisis

Habang may araw...

Expose your plants to sunlight while there is .. to kill bad germs and fungi naturally

Early morning sun to say a max 10am-11am and resume again mga 3pm until the sun sets

Tips tips tips on
Natural plant disease mgt
Libreng resource ... sunlight

Because there are just so many potting mediums out there that claim to be the best, we've been testing 3 potting mediums to grow our basil seedlings.

Can you see the difference so far?

The photo with greener basil taken today Sept 16

The photo with yellow basil leaves taken Sept 3

Sharing the post of Harbest Agribusiness, one of the sponsors of this very importent event >

The Israel Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc. invites you to an afternoon of learnings in Urban Farming.
September 23, 2020 3pm via ZOOM.

JOIN US for learnings in vegetable production in the city. Learn livelihood opportunities in this time of stressful conditions of scarce resources...

Register early through the Israel Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ICCP). Email your interest to join by writing an email to : [email protected] . You will be provided the link to participate for FREE.

Learn about doable edible gardening and Urban farming being promoted and implemented by the Department of Agriculture through the Bureau of Plant Industry with its focal person on Urban Farming, Assistant Director Glenn Panganiban. Secretary William Dar will share the DA's Plant, Plant, Plant advocacy and nationwide program on food security.

Omar Zeidan, former head of the Agricultural Extension Office of the Israel's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and now an international consultant on greenhouse farming systems for vegetables. He will share Israel farming technologies on greenhouse -grown high-value vegetables and other technologies that can be adapted here. He was an adviser to the highly successful Philippine Israel Center for Agricultural Technologies (PICAT) that trained and exposed hundreds of Filipino farmers and Agriculturists to advance Israeli farming technologies. This project was spearheaded here by the Central Luzon State University with LGUs and the Department of Agrarian Reform.

His Excellency, Ambassador Rafael Harpaz of the Israel Embassy, Makati, shall welcome all participants and extend the services of the Embassy in linking Israeli Agricultural technologies with Filipino companies.

Harbest will share its doable technologies in vegetable farming to make idle urban lands productive for food.

Oh wonderful sunshine said our basil and tarragon

To kill the fungi that has grown lalo na sa basil and the algae on the soil top

Got patungan din for our herbs to protect from overwatering due to flooding in the terrace where some of our herbs are

Can only learn by doing

God is good!

Naturally Home Grown joins https://www.facebook.com/MamangTahoCottonwoods and https://www.facebook.com/nathans.solution.antipolo at the Cottonwoods Sunday market to promote healthy and natural options

Propagating sweet basil....

We have learned and continue to learn gardening by doing. There is no other way.

We watch youtube videos, learn from fellow gardeners, ask the experienced and apply learnings. We make mistakes, adjust parameters

And tadah! ☝️☝️☝️ time to put these into seedling bags using very fertile potting medium (another learning.. wag na wag mag tipid sa quality potting medium / soil)

God is good. Thank you for Your wisdom how to propagate basil.

Abangan, we will be sharing more learnings coz it makes sense ... stay home and grow your own. Iwas covid.

Thank you to the 3 ladies from Cogeo who accepted some of the seedlings we are sharing for free. These are not quality seedlings but gopd enough to practice on. We've added quality compost from our garden and some fertile potting mix to these seedlings. And we also manually pollinated the tomato flowers so that these become fruit, by God's grace

God bless your journey.

Pls just send us a message so that we can guide you further. We would like to help you learn gardening where we can.

If we can, you can too

We are giving away tomato seedlings fed today with fertile potting mix and compost. Pls note these are not quality seedlings - we had fun germinating a lot of seeds but were unable to give TLC to each of them (learning... plant just a few seeds for home needs). But these seedlings can be used to practice home gardening.

We will give free guidance on how to give TLC to the tomatoes to those who will be requesting for free seedlings

If you reside in Upper Antipolo, just send a PM so that you can come here to pick up your free seedling. First come first served.

BER month na, and we've got tomatoes

Thank you Lord!

We just got to realize this morning... ⛅️🌤🌤☀️🎉☝️

Check out posts under this folder to know all about SEEDS

https://www.facebook.com/naturallyhomegrownph/photos/a.156785929407359/156785756074043

Pechay Done, Lettuce Done, Arugula done,.... next is .... https://youtu.be/9w-7RoH_uic

Grow Lots of Tomatoes... Not Leaves // Complete Growing Guide In this video, I've compiled everything you need to know to grow a ton of tomatoes instead of huge tomato plants with very little fruit! In this complete gro...

Can you guest what these 6 keys are? Guess....

just sharing coz it worked for us, it might just work for you.

Because it makes so much sense in this time of crisis

To stay home and grow your own naturally

We will share our learnings

For questions you may comment on our posts or contact us:
https://m.me/naturallyhomegrownph
[email protected]

Nothing should ever go to waste.
No seedling tray, no problem!
Turn your tissue cores and that sushi/maki platter into a DIY seedling tray.

P2P ... Paso to plato
Fresh is always best ❤️

HUH? Why is this news update in our FB page… Allow us to explain.

One of the major major reasons we are growing our own veggies and herbs naturally – to strengthen our immune system with nutrient dense food from chemical free (naturally or commonly called organically) .

Staying home + healthy lifestyle thru growing own veggies naturally = iwas Covid.

Mag naturally home grown na para Iwas Covid

If we can, you can too.

Photo and newsupdate by CNN Philippines:
https://www.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines/posts/2904497653123448

After harvesting our salad greens from our garden, it is time to prepare for the next batch of veggies. Empty the pots and set aside the used soil for reconditioning.

Some advantages of using pots vs garden bed 1) uses less soil vs garden beds 2) easy to move around the pots esp when it is raining hard and easier to crop rotate 3) pots can be used for both small and big garden space 4) you can hang your pots on your wall and 5) pots are reusable Some of the disadvantage is that 1) different crops different pot sizes 2) you have to spend on the pots.

Some of the advantages of using garden beds 1) you don't have to buy pots. The pots can be costly. and 2) various crops of various sizes can be planted. Some of the disadvantages are 1) you will use more soil or there will be more idle soil 2) if it rains hard, you cannot move your veggies to a safer place and 3) you need more garden space to make your garden bed and 4) you'd need to make a cover to protect your veggies.

Well just sharing our experience. We'd like to know your experience too.

Lower cost, small space and MECQ

So what is stopping you from growing your own?

https://www.agriculture.com.ph/2020/07/16/a-millennial-housewife-grows-vegetables-and-saves-more-than-a-thousand-in-monthly-grocery-costs

A millennial housewife grows vegetables and saves more than a thousand in monthly grocery costs by Vina Medenilla Being stuck at home because of the quarantine can be both a challenge and a blessing for many, especially in a world where we don’t feel safe anymore. Kylie Benjamin, 27, housewife, is

In just 45 days we have our own leafy veggie garden…

If you are new to edible home gardening, we will share with you some of our learnings in our journey. Abangan….

We are not experts BUT we’d like to help you START your own “Naturally Home Grown” edible garden.

Because if we can, you can too … with the right heart and wisdom from The Great Gardener

Yesterday we asked fellow edible home gardeners if we can start harvesting this batch of romaine lettuce.

They said YES… and so we did.

Sharing the joy of our first harvest of naturally home grown romaine lettuce. Thank you Lord. All glory goes to You.

You know…If we can, you can too! Just have a heart willing to learn. It is a journey