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Hi guys,

This is our method of growing food in our garden in bali after we made the decision our kids 1 & 3 would benefit from the experience of planting for ourselves.

Few things that have worked extremely well so far.

Buy green chilli from the local market. Just throw down on the soil, add some natural rain water every couple of days and chilli bushes grow.

Have also had some fantastic success with corn.

Put dried corn kernels bought fresh from the local market in soil.

Same deal as with the chilli bushes apart from no need to add water. Corn seems to grow with very little moisture at all.

Garlic grows in the ground. Just put individual bulbs in the soil. Little bit of water and gods sunlight. Very easy.

Projects

Turmeric, Thyme and ginger. Turns out thyme likes growing in a pot in the shade. Ginger and Turmeric are on going concerns. Still perfecting procedure..

Tomatoes seem to grow in the most unusual places. It would seem they enjoy a variety of enthronements. I’ve got some in pots growing on the pagola roof downstairs and more just growing in weird spots in the garden. Most fruit is taken from around the plantations around flower beds. Seems they are individuals too.

Fruit

Lemon and Lime very abundant they like it if you wee on them, also have mango trees. Young trees but produce fruit 4 times a year. Also have rumbutan and avocado tress growing. Might be a few years before we see anything produced there. Hopeful.

Its not rocket science. Ozmosis and defusion will take care of most of it for you.

Grow a garden..

Tengui

Thanks for the info tengui, will try some of your ideas when the weather gets better as it's freezing here ( London) at the moment and I am not keen on going in the garden at the moment! I swept up a bit and tidied a a few weeks ago as it was a nice day but now it's book reading and staying in the warm time!

We got pumkin seedlings growing !!!! & Green Beens. Just scooped out the pumpkin seeds with a bit of the pulp. Straight on the dirt. The pulp kind of breaks down and rots over about a week and a half, seems this process helps the seeds germinate. Brilliant.

Have negociated with a local rice farmer to exchange raw husks and stems for excess chilli. Seeing as they usually burn the waste from rice farming im getting compost material for next to nothing. Im getting an awesome deal. Our chilli bushes are epic. There is no way anyone could eat as much much chilli as our bushes produce. Very excited.

This is huge, ive got 23 pumpkins on the go. From the seeds of just just one pumpkin, Im amazed. Also seeded tomatoes and capsicum. Expecting good things in thext 2 months... Odiously we don't have GMO in the produce markets and im also tipping good soil otherwise we wouldn't have such a high success rate. Will say I am having problems with parsley. May need to relocate to a different area of the garden perhaps. Open to tips to growing herbs????

Thanks for the info on growing chilli. I never knew you could do this!

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Maxi in Australia
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