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My father used to grow cabbage, brocolli , cauliflower , cucumber, and he was using bat sh*t that we gather from the nearby caves. But he garded it like babies, from bugs and insect by putting net over. What i want to try my hand when back there , is potato and carrots. I notice in the market that it is expensive and they so tiny. Now that i know how to grow it here in canada. It is just like planting sweet potato it only grow like green beans. maybe we can form a DI gardening group and we can swap seeds and ideas from the country we were and apply it where we plan to live. Rhoody just another thing for you to get your hand keep busy and more work .:p

one more thing, that my dad was doing, that before dark he catches few frogs and throw it in the garden to do his night guard against the insect and bugs. I think the frogs does their job well as for the next morning they all have a fat belly. :D

this plant be more useful for you Rhoody if we can grow this
around your house lol !!

 

Garbonzo, maybe you will find this one of interest for its business prospect and health benefits. You can research more about this plant. The other one is Bitter Gourd.


Saturday, October 13, 2007
Malunggay: The miracle vegetable
By Henrylito D. Tacio

IF UNITED States has apple to keep the doctors away, here in the Philippines, it's the common malunggay.

Touted by scientists as "miracle vegetable," malunggay has been promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the past 20 years as a low-cost health enhancer in poor countries around the globe. In fact, during the Marcos administration, there was already a craze about malunggay, being a solution to the malnutrition problem in the countryside.

Perhaps not too many people know that the late President Ferdinand Marcos himself was a malunggay addict, consuming soup littered with green leaves in every meal in addition to the legendary 'saluyot' and 'labong' (bamboo shoots) as his main fare.

Malunggay trees are generally grown in the backyards. The small, oval, dark-green leaves are famous vegetable ingredient in soup, fish and chicken dishes. Scientifically, it is called 'Moringa oelifera.' Despite its legendary potentials, malunggay is still relatively unknown.

"The sale of all forms of vitamins, minerals, and health supplements is a big business," points out Moringa Zinga, an American company that promotes and sells malunggay products in capsules. "If you are a company selling hundreds of nutritional products, why would you sell a product that will wipe out all your other products? This is true for the pharmaceutical industries as well. These industries would rather that the general public remains ignorant about the moringa leaves."

According to the Biotechnology Program Office of the Department of Agriculture, the malunggay has been found by biochemists and molecular anthropologists to be rich in vitamins C and A, iron, and high-density lipoprotein or good cholesterol.

Due to its high calcium content (four times the calcium in milk), lactating mothers in the Philippines are often advised to consume malunggay leaves to produce more milk for their babies. The young malunggay leaves are being boiled and drink as tea.

Malunggay leaves are loaded with nutrients. Gram for gram, malunggay leaves also contain two times the protein in milk. Likewise, it contains three times the potassium in bananas and four times the vitamin A in carrots.

Health nutritionists claim that an ounce of malunggay has the same Vitamin C content as seven oranges. An important function of vitamin C not known to many is its being an antioxidant. In fact, it has been recognized and accepted by the US Food and Drug Administration as one of the four dietary antioxidants, the others being vitamin E, beta-carotene and selenium. (A dietary oxidant is a substance in food that significantly decreases the adverse effects of harmful chemicals.)

There are more health benefits. Vivencio Mamaril, of Bureau of Plant Industry, told a national daily that in India, malunggay is used in treating various ailments. A 2001 study in India has found that the fresh root of the young tree can be used to treat a fever. Asthmatics are advised to drink the infusion from the roots of the plant.

Tender malunggay leaves also reduce phlegm and are administered internally for scurvy and catarrhal conditions, while the flowers are used to heal inflammation of the tendons and abscesses. Unripe pods of malunggay can prevent intestinal worms, while the fruit also prevents eye disorders.

Other studies have shown that eating malunggay fruits can lead to higher semen count. This is good news for men who may not be able to sire children. They can now count on the malunggay to work its magic on them. Because of its nutritional content, malunggay strengthens the immune system, restores skin condition, controls blood pressure, relieves headaches and migraines, manages the sugar level thereby preventing diabetes, reduces inflammations and arthritis pains, restricts the growth of tumors, and heals ulcers. This information comes from Dr. Kumar Pati, an Indian doctor who is an expert in natural medicine.

The "next big thing" in Philippine agriculture. That is how the agriculture department considers malunggay. "Malunggay can save lives, increase incomes, generate millions of jobs, utilize vast tracts of idle agricultural lands, make the Philippines globally competitive, impact local and international market, and help attain socio-economic equity," explained Alice Ilaga, director of the DA's Biotechnology Program.

 

We are starting a garden this weekend here in Bacong. We will start with the seeds/seedlings in pots with a potting/seedling mixture and see what grows. I have too many seeds to try including carrots, 3 types of watermellon, 5 types of peppers, 3 types of tomatoes, squash, corn, 2 types of lettuce, cantalope, thyme, sweet basil, passion fruit, 3 types of sunflowers, beans, and, and, and......!!! I'll let you know how it works out.

A friend of mine here said he has tried to grow too many things that either didn't grow or produced no fruit. The sun here is intense and hot. Moisture can go from not enough to waaaay too much too! We'll see!

 

Growing cabbage, broccoli, potatoes need cool weather, that is why they are so expensive in PI. Perhaps in the higher elevations it might be cooler and will produce better crops.

It is necessary to plant corn in bunches or at least 5 rows wide to get proper pollination. The tassels at the top crop pollen onto the silks of the corn ears for pollination so if you only plant one row it probably will not produce at all.

Tomatoes and other plants need insects to pollinate but too much rain can cause the flower end of the fruit to rot before it reaches maturity.

 

sorry, didnt know..

since my eyes is kinda blurry, i thought all caps will help..no offence intended

 

no problem, press "ctrl" and "+" at the same time will enlarge your screen-display (the first keys I press on hang-over-days)

@Dumaguetenia... that's your daddy on the picture ???

 

Hi, what is a chooks? .... last time we went home in dumaguete, my wife bought sweet potato leaves,ampalaya leaves. she just blanch it add fresh tomatoes and eat like salad... what i did with the potato stem i planted it. and put some dead fish in the soil.. 3 weeks later i saw how it grows, as if one more week we can harvest again exactly the same as we bought the first time...but we have no more time to wait, we have to go back to canada.so i know it will grow there quicker than in canada.. its amazing, also papaya i planted it last june2008, just like 8 inches tall. now its full of fruits, its the short papaya variety, but have big fruits.. so now i know veggies, in 1 month you can harvest, papaya one year and half...

 

thanks soo much..

 

GMCVandura put some dead fish in the soil.. 3 weeks later i saw how it grows[/B][/B][/B]

So how is that working out for ya?:D