Parcel 5 Our Small Farm

Month of December, on set of the monsoon season. Our pool had been filled to the max, had to dig an overflow drain to relieve some flooded area. Algae had grown in our pool as we did not use the water much. The fishes that we had thrown in had also grew in quantity. Bought some fish feeds, but unfortunately all were eaten by the dogs. Have to store it securely the next time. Thankfully we had harvested our green vegetable patch as two raised beds were flooded. Our losses were minimal, mostly due to diseases, insects & predator outbreak because on the rainy season.

Our inter-crop of groundnuts & eggplant to the failed sweet corn is growing well. The leafs of the sweet corn indicate most probably that there is magnesium deficiency here. Was told that sweet potatoes grows well in this area. Am planing to convert this area to plant banana and inter-crop with legumes. Work shall start in stages once we had finish harvesting the present crops here.

Clearing a small area to try planting some seedlings of bottle gourd that we obtained from a friend. Those pumpkins that we planted here did not grow well. Not sure if it's the soil condition or due to the drought. We had since pipe in an automatic sprinkle here. Hopefully these shall do better. Need to set up some fixture for it to climb soon.
Had also planted some banana here. Since it takes about 6 ~ 12 months for the banana to bear fruits, we should be able to harvest the bottle gourd, then do another round of legumes.

 The Long beans are growing well. Shall need to string up in a week or so. We had readied the bamboo pole when we planted the seeds. The bamboo where cut from the wild, not far from our farm. We had only started to use these wild bamboo to save on cost and to reduce waste. Thinking of more uses for the bamboo as they are readily available. Maybe do some fixture for the pumpkins to climb on our later batch.

Or first harvest of pumpkins did not go well. We had some that were eaten most probably by rodents and some were converted to ants nest, due to the rainy season. We only managed about 45 kilos & 55 kilos for the 1st & 2nd batch. Expecting a bigger harvest on the following batch batch. We are keeping all the spoiled pumpkins to be used as seeds.
We are still making changes to our little farm. Have decided to stop the eggplant as the prices had dropped too low and we still had not fare well on this plant. Shall move on to other crops which we have a better experience.
We have at the moment the following crops here. Banana, Chilli, Eggplant, Okra, Pumpkins, Kangkung, Sayur Manis, Mini Tomato, Bentong Ginger, Yam, Papaya, Avocado, Sweet Potato, Sweet corn, Groundnuts, Long beans, Bottle gourd, Jack fruits, Serai & Sukun.