Greetings to all of you! While improving the soil in our garden, and I think it will take five more months from now to see a better result, we are also doing what's best to produce even small amount of food for the volunteers. We have seen small successes but the challenges we have to face are seem very strong, appearing every now and then. One example is the problem we encounter every time our tomato starts to bear fruit. It also starts to turn dry, the leaves become yellow, the fruit splits and slowly, it dies. There are probably many reasons for that - not enough water or too much water, the soil is very poor, it has too much nitrogen, or very acidic. So that's why I started to search on the internet about this problem and found out that it is a common problem in planting tomato. So now I would like to share these helpful sites that some of you may want to check to learn about this problem.
Information On Common Tomato Plant Problems
Common Tomato Problems (Videos)
So I hope it will help you find out how to deal with this kind of problem. Honestly, I find it hard but I need to learn how to solve it or else we cannot enjoy the pleasure of eating organic tomato in the future. Anyway, here are more pictures of the problems in our vegetables:
premature ripening of under-develop melons...
bitter gourd (ampalaya) infested with worms and sometimes ripen and die at early stage...
eggplant leaves decimated by insects...
So these are some of the problems that we need to solve for the moment. And for the soil, these are the things that we are doing right now...
collecting organic matters from the shops nearby
mixing cow dung, banana peel, and dried leaves
Meanwhile, here are some improvements and changes:
front portion of the garden
And finally, here are the wonderful volunteers...
Thank you very much too all of you!!!
