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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
no bugs (yet)
Just over a month and the tomato plants are growing like weeds...
Pets really help the soil turn from Texas orange to light black. Pigeons contribute to good soil fertilization in S.E. Asia and has been imported. They called it Honey Buckets in Japan and collect it from people’s homes on wagons and fertilize the rice fields. (DO NOT eat left over rice, especially with seafood in it. People die that way. Eat fresh steamed, boiled, rice that has been washed first and do not keep dry rice longer than 3 months, bacteria and poison develops that kills people. Plain rice without additives like fish is safer). I like fresh steamed sticky plain white rice from the Filipino kitchen here with soy sauce on it. Well I like to eat it with chop sticks because it reminds it of my former home in Japan.
In the Philippines we had to eat rice morning, noon, and night for 3 weeks at the Girl Scout camp. When we left, I just craved milk and steak. We have good food here.
(Someone at the camp broke in the food store and took a can of peaches and we thought we were having a feast. The Filipinos tried to give us the delicacy of Balut - half formed baby bird to be sucked out of the end of an egg shell through a hole - but I declined).
I have it on pretty good authority that rabbit poop is good fertilizer.
ReplyDeleteNeem oil!!!!
ReplyDeleteThey sure are big!
ReplyDeleteWhat are you feeding your plant?
ReplyDeletePets really help the soil turn from Texas orange to light black. Pigeons contribute to good soil fertilization in S.E. Asia and has been imported. They called it Honey Buckets in Japan and collect it from people’s homes on wagons and fertilize the rice fields. (DO NOT eat left over rice, especially with seafood in it. People die that way. Eat fresh steamed, boiled, rice that has been washed first and do not keep dry rice longer than 3 months, bacteria and poison develops that kills people. Plain rice without additives like fish is safer). I like fresh steamed sticky plain white rice from the Filipino kitchen here with soy sauce on it. Well I like to eat it with chop sticks because it reminds it of my former home in Japan.
ReplyDeleteIn the Philippines we had to eat rice morning, noon, and night for 3 weeks at the Girl Scout camp. When we left, I just craved milk and steak. We have good food here.
ReplyDelete(Someone at the camp broke in the food store and took a can of peaches and we thought we were having a feast. The Filipinos tried to give us the delicacy of Balut - half formed baby bird to be sucked out of the end of an egg shell through a hole - but I declined).
ReplyDeleteNice healthy plants John
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