My Little Organic Garden in the City

Jul 08, 2016
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Aside from my herb garden, I also started an organic vegetable garden in my little community. First, I planted some okra seeds in containers. After about two months, they started to produce lots of nice okras. I got so excited that I decided to plant eggplants and tomatoes in pots. I also ventured into leafy vegetables like pechay (pakchoy), Chinese kangkong (water spinach), green onions, Chinese bokchoy, and alugbati (malabar spinach), as well as other vegetables like pepper, squash, and radishes. Aside from okra, I have so far been very successful with eggplants, pechay, kangkong, and alugbati while I failed miserably with tomatoes, pepper and radishes.

Organic Gardening In Metro Manila

Container gardening, utilizing a small open area in our neighborhood neighborhood — Container gardening: Utilizing a small open area in our neighborhood

These eggplants should be ready for harvest in a couple of days.

This is a local eggplants variety called "bulinggit". — This is a local eggplant variety called “bulinggit”, perfect for container gardening.

Chinese bokchoy organically grown in a container ready for harvest anytime

Malabar spinach grown from stalks that I bought from the local market

I also grow some leafy veggies in vertical pots.

Here are some of my early produce of Pechay. — Here are some of my earlier produce of Pechay.

These are just some of my success stories. I will post more of my organic gardening adventures in succeeding blogs.

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