Gardening and Farming

**yebo** · August 18th, 2014 06:00 PM

i forgot, for plants like tomato and eggplant, you will need to provide some support for the growing plant. anything will do, like a bamboo stick, old umbrella or even string/tali/plastic straw suspended from a sampayan. just loosely tie the stalk of the growing plant to it. for plants like ampalaya and upo you will need a trellis. you can make it of bamboo, wire or strings/plastic straw.

**lowslowbenz** · August 19th, 2014 01:04 PM

Cathy, before you plant your seed(s), it is best practice to determine the quality of your soil first. There are vegetables that thrive on loamy soil, while there are also vegetables that grow well on sandy soil. Other plants would require clayish to loamy soil.

If you're not too sure on what type of soil you have on your backyard, it would be best to start planting veggies into pots, or unused laundry "palanggana" will do. Fill these with garden mix, and plant your seeds in there. Leave in a shaded area until the seed germinate. If you planted "creepers" i.e. tomato, ampalaya, etc., leave a small trellis of sticks for the vines to hold on.

If you're really serios about it, you can buy garden mix by the volume and dig an area in your backyard where you can fill in the garden mix. This will act as your vegetable patch. See here: Planning Your First Vegetable Garden

The veggies you listed on page one require specific conditions that are not present here in the metro. The weather is one factor. All 7 (seven) of them require upland (a bit cold) weather. Except maybe for scallions.

Happy gardening.

**12vdc** · August 19th, 2014 04:07 PM

Palagay ko ang bagay sa age ni Ms Cath yung Orchidarium and ornamentals- may greenhouse canopy then auto mist sprinkler. OR..yung low maintenance like sitaw, kamote, cassava, malunggay, plantain na saging, san fernando, ampalaya, okra, kundol, munggo, at patola.

May kilala ako nahilig sa gardening then eventually tinamad dahil wala na oras, naging damuhan ang bakuran

**holdencaulfield** · August 19th, 2014 05:12 PM

san ba nakakabili ng mga buto nito?

PM me asap!

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**crazy_boy** · August 19th, 2014 09:15 PM

Pwede kaya weather ng Tagaytay to plant peach?

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**ano727** · May 2nd, 2016 03:45 PM

Reviving this thread...

Any recommendation where I can find wide variety of selections for bright colored flowering plants for garden? near Antipolo or QC area.

Planning to landscape my garden but the plant selections I see are very limited.

Would appreciate.

Thanks.