ORGANIC FARMING JOURNEY #2: PLOT MULCHING, AND IMO & LAB IMPLEMENTATION

in #life7 years ago

GOOD BENEFICIAL BACTERIA


The land has been prepared, plowed, and flattened. Plots were formed and prepared for mulching. Now, the mulching begins. However, before plastic mulching is applied to the plots, we need to spray some good old indigenous micro-organisms (IMO) combined with lacto-bacilli aciduphilus or lactic acid bacteria (LAB). I personally cultured these good bacteria using minimum cost. Now, that's a benefit I will always enjoy with organic farming!

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Left: activated lactic acid bacteria (LAB); Right: indigenous micro-organisms (IMO-1)

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Populating the soil with LAB and IMO by spraying onto the soil.

These good bacteria will help build the appropriate soil structure and populate the growth environment with beneficial bacteria to aid in nutrients absorption and develop a robust root system.

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MULCHING

Plastic mulch are used since this is excess from previous cropping season. We will use rice chaff in the future to do away with plastic and inorganic materials.

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So far, so good!

Next post will show the complete transplant of tomatoes on to the plots. Let's see how they do from seedling trays to their new home, out in the field. Keep following my posts. I hope to share some good stuff about organic farming and learn from your views, suggestions, and comments to improve and make my organic farming journey more enjoyable.

Cheers!

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I was going to ask about the plastic, but I see you've explained it. Makes sense that you've got to use up what's left of it before moving over to rice chaff. Thanks again for this step-by-step glimpse into organic farming. Keep em coming, this is amazing! :)

yup, wouldn't want to waste anything. i am soon clearing out our pumpkins and I thought they might make a good mulch. i have to try them or feed them to my worm friends to compost. I have started transplanting the tomato seedlings and will show some pics and and share our protocols on how we do it. thanks for dropping by. Cheers! ;-)

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