Start Of The Dry Season

 Took some time to repair our water retention pond. Repaired the water outlet so that it can hold more water reserve. Clean out the water Kangkong which had overcrowded the pond.









Our cleaned water pond. Found that the fishes that we had put in had grown. Getting some feed for them. Maybe we can do a harvest in a couple of months.







Checked out the water pump as it was redundant for the past months. Changed the engine oil, clean spark plugs. Did a test run, but find that there is a lot of air trapped inside. Problem was traced to the leaky suction hose. Suction hose is costly as it has to withstand the negative pressure without collapsing. 








Guess we are all set for the dry season.

End Of Raining Season

Weather forecast that the raining season is about to be over and expecting drought for the next four months, ending in September. Hope it's not the dry. Recently we are only getting slight rain about once a week. The soil condition is really dry now. Time to check our watering pond, pump and pipping. Our watering pond need some maintenance work.

Had to stop the Papaya transplanting as some of them are experiencing drought shock. Resorting to watering manually daily. I guess the mortality may be due to the heat and dehydration. Even those with a shade are not spared. A couple died due to stem rot. Shall wait till the plant-lets to grow bigger in the nursery before transplanting further as in the nursery there is shade and watering point. Majority of the transplant are still healthy.
Due to the drought, the pumpkin is not growing well and the harvest had dropped drastically. Anyway, it's the ending season and are preparing to re-plant maybe next month.