⛏️⛏️Hive Garden Journal: My First Harvest and Garden Checking⛏️⛏️

Today, I decided to visit my Old Garden near at the river. Last time, I planted some of the root crops here and luckily it was grown healthy. We called this crops, LUTYA. This is one of the primary ingredients of fish soup and other kinds of food.

I was very to see that some of my root crops is ready for harvesting. I was very excited to do harvesting of some of this crops and this is my first time to do harvesting. Lutya is one of the most popular root crops here in Manticao and many people loves to buy this for adding in the dish they cooked. Most of the residents who sell this kind of crops are came from mountainous places of the town. They sell this for 1 USD that is 55 Pesos Per kilo. They sell a big basket of Lutya and I can only say that the Lutya farmers is very lucky.

I decided to cut the leaves of my crops and I will cook this as Ginataan dish, on which it addens coconut milk or coconut extracts. We always cook that kind of the said dish back when I was a kid. The next thing I did was to cut and removed the leaves and gently peel the outer skin of the stalks. After that, cut it in same measures and it should be 2 inches long.

This is the crops looks like, after I cut those leaves, I started to unearthed this crops and I am very happy to see that it grows very healthy. I gently washed with water so that the soil will also removed. This is also called a Bulb, on which it can plant also, just chopped this into small pieces. Our Public market was highly demanded about this and it is very expensive if we sell.

The next thing I did was to extract the shredded coconut meat. The coconut milk is very important in this kind of dish because it gives a good taste to all dish that involves coconut milk extract.

Garlic is one of the best Ingredients by cooking Ginataan dish, that is why I decided also to add garlic. I carefully removed the skin of the garlic and instead of slicing it, I crashed it using the knife.

This is the dish And one of my favorite food. This is perfect in business. I remembered when I was in Highschool, I always brought this kind of food to our school canteen and I really enjoyed eating this dish.

The next thing I did is to check my newly planted vegetables in my simple Garden. As I checked it, I noticed that the sprouts was not still comes out. I did a plotting area because I want to plant Ginger here in this place. The ginger was already planted in here and best way so that the ginger will grow fast is to watered it daily.

The next vegetables I checked was the string beans vegetables. I planned to replaced a new one because the old string beans vegetables were slowly withered. I am very surprised that the seeds I planted is now having a sprouts. I was very happy and proud to see it, and the next plan I will do is to put any bamboos near of the beans, so that the plants will cling to the bamboo. I also removed the wild grass that surrounds in my string beans sprouts so that the place will remains clean.

Í also checked my Morringa plants. Here in our place, we called it Malunggay and it is good for any kind of soup dishes. Moringga is also good for medicinal benefits and it contains many kinds of nutrients that needs to our body. Last day, I watered this using with a mix of molasses and it gives a good results.

This are my lemon grass, I planted 3 months has passed. It grows very healthy also and I also watered it using the molasses. I mix the molasses in the water and it gives a good result. This is very perfect also for fish soup and can make our dish to become smell and have a good taste.

The last is the mangosteen tree. This tree was already 5 years and I am very excited to see the fruit of this tree. I plant this near at my Garden and it grows very healthy also. Mangosteen have many medicinal values that needs to our body and this is the primary ingredients to make medicine.

I have a great time exploring to my simple garden and I am very proud also that there is a good results behind of my hard work.