A well-kept vegetable garden, all organic and fruit trees right in your backyard!

Here in Malaybalay, the weather is your favorite thing especially if you have plans to begin your organic garden.  Malaybalayan agrees for she has decided to go full swing with one such garden now that the lot of her sister is fenced and is permitted by her to take care of the area for her. .First set of seedlings had just been planted yesterday so be ready for a step by step show: ampalaya, string beans, eggplant and cucumber when its sprouts appear and as it is transplanted and hopefully as it becomes ready for harvest. Let us not go far ahead people.

What is it with the times nowadays? One has to be so insensitive not to be worried with the way the world is going about: London, imagine right in its midst, young people wearing hoods went on "vandalism" spree. Thanks cctv, 60 of them have been arrested days after the actual onslaught! Some filipinos were victimized too.

Syrian conflict goes on; Afghanistan war goes on; Economic crisis all over Asia, USA and other places is a reality; Food supply is expensive and in most cases not fresh enough or healthy enough. This last part is why vegetable gardens, if possible organic, are the ways to go.  

Department of Agriculture usually distributes some tips how to plant correctly. Do share if you secrets how to grow vegetables abundantly and healthily. If you have seedlings to spare, please e-mail us in reisabas@gmail.com. We have cadet girl scouts who are eager to have a vegetable garden to raise funds for their troop.

Now it is becoming clear what there is to do once I retire: have a huge vegetable garden and continue planting fruit trees in my backyard or in a farm for posterity. Just yesterday we harvested our first produce of lakatan ( one kind of banana good for banana split and the like).I was told I have to wait for one (1) week to see all the bananas, or some of it, become ripe ad ready to eat. There is another banana plant that has produced giant sab-a and my backyard is its site. Hopefully the mango trees will follow suit.Just this morning I harvested "kalamunggay: leaves for our lunch. It was timely what with one of my sons having fever. Soup ladened with fish and kalamunggay leaves made his lunch nutritious. Now after that hearty meal, he has gone back to sleep with his fever gradually lowered and I pray, stay away for good.

To fellow vegetable garden enthusiasts, let us join forces - at least in spirit - and may your tribe increase!