White Flower, What Flower?

Sometimes we leave some of our vegetables to set flowers and seeds. They also attract beneficial insects like this native bee. But do you know what vegetable bore these nice flowers?

Lettuce closeups

a plot of lollo rossa

red wave and curly green

not so common spotted romaine

Melons

We gave watermelon a try two months ago. My father kept reminding me that hibred watermelons we're not bred to be grown organically, but we still tried them (matigas ang ulo) :)
Here they are now. They're not uniform in size and a lot smaller than they're supposed to be, but the taste is amazing!!! They're super sweet!!! This is proof that organically grown fruits are better tasting than conventionally grown ones.

This is the biggest one we got from our first batch of melons.

3 Rules of DDF

At Daily DOSE Farm, we gave our organic duo (Gary and Arnold) three simple rules:

One: all plots should be watered regularly.

Two: all plots should "always" have either vegetable or green manure. (no vacant plots)

Three: we should have a regular weekly harvest of vegetables.

and these are the results after leaving them on their own for a month...

GREAT JOB GUYS!!!

Spiral Plot - Revisited

The herbs at the spiral plot have grown. Starting from the left going around the plot are: lavender, dill, lots of fennel, another group of dill, stevia, parsley, another set of lavender, more stevias, a small group of rosemary and at the middle, a bunch of sage. after harvesting some of the herbs, we're planning to add some tarragon, marjoram, peppermint and more...

A closer look at some lavenders, flowering dills and fennels.

Book No. 8

One of my favorite books on worms. This is about spectacular achievements of worms since they were studied by Charles Darwin. Philippines is quite popular in this book. It was mentioned that there are still lots of earthworm species in our country that are not yet discovered. I wish I can find one and get to name it... :)

Book No. 7

Now let's go to the more specific stuff, like this book. A must have for those who want to start vermiculture and/or vermicomposting. It has lots of information about different varieties of composting worms and all that technical and scientific stuff. The best part of this book is, for me, the worm recipe section. It has different recipes, from worm brownie to worm meatloaf. Now that's high protein diet for you!!!