{"id":293,"date":"2009-03-20T23:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-03-20T23:15:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T15:15:20","slug":"pot-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Pot Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"

[NOTE: A blog entry that started February and posted in March. Very un-procrastinator of me :P]<\/p>\n

It all started with the desire to minimize the amount of waste we put out so I commandeered a broken laundry tub from our neighbor’s backyard and started a mini-compost pit. All of our food waste went directly to the tub which I covered with some sandy soil that I collected around the village. Decomposing is fun in its own way especially when I can find some worms that I can place in the tub to naturally hasten the decomposition process. <\/p>\n

Then one day the chili seeds we threw in the tub started growing that I became so ecstatic. You see I always thought that I have the black thumb: the ability to kill any plant that had the misfortune to touch. When some tomato seeds started growing then that was the time I began transplanting the seedlings to pots and empty biscuit cans.<\/p>\n

And here is the first fruits of my labor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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My first fruit harvest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Tomato Plant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Not much but they seem to be the best tasting tomatoes that I have had. The plant gave out around 5 more fruits but they were stunted because the plant itself started to die for some reason. I think it also have something to do with the excessive heat and strong winds that nearly killed and blew down most of my shrubs.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, I also have the following
\n – 4 Oregano pots courtesy of a single shrub given by my mother-in-law.
\n – 6 Tarragon pots that I split from a single pot bought from Tagaytay. I still have no idea though where I can use tarragon but these seem to be the ones heavily affected by the gusty afternoon winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Sorry tarragon offshoots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

– 2 Mint pots that came from the single pot I bought from Tagaytay. We usually pick some leaves to put in a pitcher of Coke. When I become frisky enough, I’ll mix some mojitos.
\n – 1 pot of Basil that I don’t think are looking tasty enough.
\n – 1 pot of a Chinese parsley that had no chance of growing properly. The reason is we frequently prepare tokwa’t baboy to which we garnish with parsley. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n
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And lots and lots of chili pepper plants. Some were already being planted on the thin front garden soil. To date I have taken two chili pepper pods from them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Chili Pepper Army.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

More pictures can be viewed in the Picasa Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[NOTE: A blog entry that started February and posted in March. Very un-procrastinator of me :P] It all started with the desire to minimize the amount of waste we put out so I commandeered a broken laundry tub from our neighbor’s backyard and started a mini-compost pit. All of our food waste went directly to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garbage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}