Day by day, harvests of sugar cane set free new areas. Better planting any crop than leaving the soil going back to weeds!
Until 15th of December corn can be planted around Sagay. As we have not yet the equipment and the place to practice true natural farming, we decided to use only vermicompost (produced by the agriculturist of City Hall with the wastes of the market) as organic fertilizer and to plant white organic corn produced by the BPI in La Carlotta near Bacolod.
To improve the soil in the corn area (3700 m²) and the windbreak area recently planted, we decided to use mungbean as cover crop and green fertilizer.
But mungbean can be stronger and faster than the corn. To avoid any problem of competition, the mungbean (75x10 cm) will be planted between the row of corn (75x30 cm) and 40 days after sowing of corn. (Picture: sowing the corn in the rain) . If no mistake, the mungbean will provide on time nitrogen to the corn and can be harvested at the same time 80 days later. Then, all wastes will be incorporated in the soil for the next crop.
On the other hand, the mungbean between the trees of the windbreaks will not be harvested because incorporated to the soil just at the time of flowering. That's the price for a beginning of rehabilitation after years of sugar cane monocropping and chemical fertilizers.
Here under is what a french poet called " Le geste auguste du semeur..." ( "The noble gesture of the sower..."). And it is true the farmer's work is noble when it is practiced in respect of the nature. Always, the farmers must remember that before leaving the farm to go to the big town, attracted like a skylark by the mirror and get a worst life. Other solution exists.
Post-script: The first flower of Calliandra planted 2 months ago:
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Do you know ehare to buy Calliandra seedlings here in baguio city? I need it for my fencing and forage for future livestock raising...Thanks and more power
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