Organic Craps and Gardening

I was given 3 gunny sack of organic crap by Yish.



You read me right. Crap.

I've fertilised my garden with all these craps and some are doing really well because i followed his instruction. Some went downhill because i thought i wanted to plant one of them with nothing but crap. Shows that even if you have abalone everyday, it might not be good in the long term.


Crap


oil palm's kernel shells


oil palm's husk fibre

And I was also given by my MIL, a corn tree. Corn tree is also known as iron tree or scientifically known as Dracaena Fragrans. They are easy to grow and they grow well in our climate.


Corn Tree

And I felt like crap after failing to complete 90km of easy cycling.

Gardening seems to be the best thing to do to take the mind off the crappy training session.

What better way to channel all the anger and frustration to something like…dirt and soil?

With this as the only tool.


The tool of destruction (of frustrations)

And a pair of leather glove of course (in case I get blister on my palm and fingers before Desaru, bad enough the blister on my Achilles isn’t healed yet).

So, I hand augered down to 0.6meter with a borehole about 12 inches in diameter.



Soil stratigraphy outside my house was fill material (0 to 0.15m), followed by silty sand (0.15 to 0.5m) and silty clay (0.5m to 0.6m). No groundwater was encountered.

The iron tree has been soaked in the water for the past 1 week to help develop the roots. Before planting it, i shaved off some skin off the lower portion to give it a better "feel" with the ground.

I then used my body weight and use it to pile the tree down into the earth. I think i managed a good 4 inches extra.

I then top up the hole with the remaining crap and mix it with the soil which i dug up. I then scatter the kernel all over the grass bed (as the grass seems to be hard to handle now, it comes with the house) and top it with the husk.


Black rock like thingy is the kernels shells and the brown hairy thingy is the husk fibre

This way, not only i can reduce the chances of the grass growing back, i could almost guarantee that the stray cats won't come and do their business on the piece of grass bed (ok, small patch of lawn).

After that, i realised something. I just spread a whole bunch of fertilisers onto the grass...now all i hope is that they won't mutate and get even out of control.

And after an hour and half, this is what i got to show to all of you.


Iron Tree planted by IronMan

With that, i hope all my frustration thus far would be buried together with those bunch of craps.