Pueraria javanica, Weeds are soil fertilizers and nitrogen producers

in HiveGarden3 years ago

Hello HiveGarden Lovers, I don't have enough time to do gardening, I'm very busy, so when I went to the garden today, my garden was full of shrubs. In addition, the last few weeks the weather in Binjai city (where I live), has very hot weather. I will share today's gardening activities, I will also show you shrubs which are very useful for our plants, because these shrubs produce nitrogen which is very useful for plant growth.

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This shrub usually grows in oil palm plantation areas and is deliberately planted because its roots are able to bind nitrogen from the air. The legume plant that I found is a type of Pueraria javanica. This plant is one of the weeds that is useful for fertilizing the soil and suppressing the growth of other weeds.

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If friends find this legume plant, friends can use this shrub as a natural soil fertilizer. Friends who have banana plantations can also use the roots of these shrubs to increase the productivity of banana plants, by planting these shrubs around the banana plants. This bush plant usually reproduces itself with its seeds, the seeds are contained in the fruit. Old fruit will be brown and the seeds will come out and spread.

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I will remove the weeds that are in my garden. the garden looks like a forest, because it has been neglected for several weeks.

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When I removed the wild plants that were under the rambutan tree, I found a lot of turmeric rhizomes under the ground. I planted turmeric a few months ago and did not expect to be able to harvest turmeric, because there were no turmeric plant stems, only the rhizomes were underground.

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After I removed the wild plants that were around the garden, I also found some ginger plants that were starting to grow.

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I don't throw away the dry leaves, because the dry leaves will decompose and turn into natural fertilizer, I never use manufactured fertilizers in my garden, they are all natural. I also found some cassava stems starting to grow.

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There are also pineapple and lemongrass plants which are starting to thrive even without manufactured fertilizers.

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The apple plants that I planted a few weeks ago are also thriving, some of the leaves are starting to sprout.

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It's March, usually rambutan trees start to flower and can be harvested in July and August. I will check the rambutan tree, whether it has started to flower.

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I also planted a durian tree, now it is 15 months old.

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There is also a pandan plant that has a distinctive aroma, I often take the leaves to add to the aroma of making porridge and compote.

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The day starts to dusk, before going home I will check if there are any bananas that I can harvest today.

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There are several banana trees that are starting to bear fruit and some are getting old, but I won't be harvesting now, I will wait for next week until the bananas are really yellow.

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Thank you for reading my post. Happy Gardening.

All the photos I took with the Realme GT master Limited edition 5G camera.

Best Regards
@umirais

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When farms are neglected for sometime, a lot of things happen. Pests and diseases are attracted in the farm. The weeds compete nutrients with the crop plants too.

yes you are right, therefore we also need to know the types of weeds that are useful for our plants @jude9

So sad your work is not giving you enough time for your farm. You actually planted a lot before and am happy you were able to see them like the turmeric and apple plant. And its great to use weed as manure instead of just burning day. It was a great day in your farm and I hope you do not take several weeks before you return.

I invite you to share your short beautiful farm stories on Threads. Its a place just similar to Twitter. You will have fun, meet new friends and even grow your audience. Of course, you could get support from many users including your community Hive garden.

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Thanks for mention @fokusnow

Hey @umirais did you think about the invitation from Charles? Are you planning on trying out Threads?

In this Thread @fokusnow mentions you, maybe you want to tell him hello :D

yes I have tried it, but can't login, sorry I just replied to your message today @anomadsoul

Oh don't worry, we all are busy some times haha. Did you tried mobile login or desktop?

On mobile you have to download the keychain app and then log in from the internal keychain browser

Thanks for the hint @anomadsoul

hello @anomadsoul, I've downloaded keychain, but I still can't login to leo thread

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