Today, know what are the parts of papaya. We see many plants in the environment. From the flowers at home, to the street, and so many places.

They are growing well and beautiful in our eyes. But today, let us learn not in planting but learn what are the parts of papaya.

So, what are the parts of papaya? The parts of papaya are papaya leaves, papaya seeds, papaya fruits, papaya roots, papaya flower and papaya trunk.

Hmm lets take a short talk. Basically I'm writing this article to inform. I don't know if there is someone who will try to search for parts of papaya but definite I will try to have a survey if someone in the world will come to read this simple article.

I'm just thinking like for example some students wants to have study of the papaya tree so I'm thinking that they can get even as little information from here so, below you can read the articles about what are the parts of papaya.

The Parts of Papaya

1. Papaya Leaves

The papaya leaves is a part of papaya in which it helps the tree to produce its food. Through the leaves the papaya tree grows well. The sunlight coming from the sun is being convert to food through the process of photosynthesis.

The papaya has a big leaves going upward. It has around 7 to 9 pointed edge each leaves for fully matured leaves. Each pointed edge has a length around 12 to 25 inches long. So we can say that the size of the leaves would be around 36 to 48 inches from point to point.

When the leaves becomes dry it change its color to brown and decay after few weeks on the ground.

2. Papaya Seeds

The papaya seeds is where the papaya begins to grow. The seeds are inside the fruit in which it turns to black when it is ripe.

The seeds of papaya are small just like the size of chicken eyes. The color of the seeds are white when not ripe and color black when the fruit is already ripe.

When the papaya seeds are color black there is a liquid form surrounds it. When you try put it on your hand and examine you will see the liquid form on it.

3. Papaya Fruits

The papaya fruit is a part of papaya in which it comes from flower and form into a fruit. The papaya can bear more fruits at a time. It continues to bear more fruits when it has a height around eight to 10 feet.

From that height the papaya trees continues to add its height and continues to bear more papaya. As if you observe a tree you can see a lot of fruits on it.

The fruits are color green when not ripe. This has a green to dark green color and continues to grow until it start to ripe. The papaya will turn to yellow to orange when it is totally ripe.

There are many varities of papaya which grow tall and also drawft. And the average papaya weight is around one pound or 0.5 kilo to eight pounds or 3.6 kilos.

4. Papaya Roots

The papaya roots is a part of papaya in which it sends nutrients and water throughout the other parts of papaya. The roots is the main entry point where all minerals coming from the soil is being transported to every parts of the plant.

One single papaya tree has many small and long size roots. In can grow around one to two meters. The roots support the whole plant to not fall. Because of the roots the plant can stand on the ground.

5. Papaya Flower

The papaya flower is part of papaya in which it is where the fruits came from. When the tree start to have flowers those flowers will turn to fruits.

When you see a flower it looks color yellow green and has a pointed edge. This is small and can weight around 0.1 pounds.

The texture of the flower is smooth. This has also a fine smell and open in a few weeks of time.

6. Papaya Trunk

The papaya trunk is a part of papaya in which it support all othet parts of papaya such as leaves, flower, and fruits.

The trunk is the biggest part of papaya. Through the papaya the water from the ground cab be transport to the leaves, flower and from the roots.

The trunk is big but it has a smooth skin. It is smooth tree in which you can remove its cover, unlike to other trees like mango or avocado which is really hard wood.

Usually the trunk of papaya is only one and it don't grow bigger size branches. It can grow little branches but not as big as its trunk.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for spending your time in reading this article about what are the parts of papaya, with us. Hope you learn something even as little as possible.

Today, know the list of filipino vegetables in the Philippines. In the world there are many kinds of vegetable that will found in many areas of the world. Those vegetables that you grow in the garden and produce more yields each and every time. And today know the list of filipino vegetables in the Philippines.


So, what are the list of filipino vegetables in the Philippines? The list filipino vegetables in the Philippines are:

1. Ampalaya/Bitter Gourd
2. Banana Flower
3. Cabbage
4. Cashew
5. Cassava Leaves
6. Carrot
7. Chayote
8. Cucumber
9. Eggplant
10. Garlic
11. Ginger
12. Green Papaya
13. Hyancinth Bean
14. Jackfruit
15. Lima Bean
16. Moringa
17. Munggo
18. Okra/Ladies finger
19. Onion
20. Pechay
21. Pepper
22. Radish
23. Sponge Gourd
24. Squash
25. Sweet Potato Leaves
26. String Bean
27. Taro
28. Tomato
29. Water Spinach
30. Winged Bean
31. Winter Melon

That's the Philippine vegetables. The list is not complete yet but we will post the full list soon. There are filipino green leafy vegetables listed above and also the vegetables which bear fruit like eggplant.

The pinoy vegetables are delicious to eat like on other countries. There are many kind of vegetables in Philippines but, below lets continue knowing each vegetables. You can know them with few information. Also know the common vegetable in the philippines.

List of Filipino Vegetables

1. Ampalaya/Bitter Gourd

In the Philippines it is called ampalaya in english is bitter gourd. It tastes bitter but it has many health benefits content.

This vegetables grows well in loam soil. It is vine type of vegetable which crawl after few weeks.

It has a curve skin type. The leaves are small to medium size.

2. Banana Flower

This is popular to Filipino. The banana flower or banana blossom is a vegetable in which they eat it. They get the flower and slice it into pieces and mix a coconut milk.

This vegetables is coming from banana and you can get it after few months or 1+ year after you plant banana.

3. Cabbage

The cabbage grows in the Philippines even it is tropical country. It is because there are some higher places in the country.

Just for example in the Baguio City, Benguet, and Tagaytay in which it has a cold temperature. The cabbage can adopt and grows well in those places mentioned.

4. Cashew

Cashew or kasoy is also a vegetable in which the seeds of it is in outside. This grows well in the tropical country.

5. Cassava Leaves

The cassava is also a vegetables. The leaves of it is being cook with coconut milk. The leaves of it can be harvest after few months.

This is also a root crop in which you can uproot the cassava after a year of planting and harvest the crops.

6. Carrot

Like cabbage, the carrot also grows in Baguio, Tagaytay and Benguet in which it has a cool temperature. The filipino plant it there as it is suited to plant on those places.

This has a sweer and delicious taste. This grows well and after few months of planting you can now harvest carrot.

7. Chayote

Chayote or sayote is also a vegetable growing in the country. This has a good taste to eat and more health benefits.

8. Cucumber

The cucumber is also a good vegetable to grow. This vegetable has many health benefits that you can get.

9. Eggplant

The varieties of eggplant in the Philippines are the longer one. This vegetable grows in loam soil and because it is tropical country it grows well.

Make a gardens plot with more fertilizer and expect a better eggplant growth. Water it regularly so that it will produce healtier leaves and soon a longer fruits.

10. Garlic

Garlic also grows well in the Philippines. Many farmers grows this as it is one of the most common ingredients in cooking.

Aside from that it has more good health benefits. Growing this is easy but you need time and patience before you ger your harvest.

11. Ginger

Ginger also grows in the country. There are the yellow and red ginger. This is good to health and easy to grow.

It grows well in loam soil. You just need a bulbs of ginger and plant it on the ground with one inch deep. After few days or weeks it will start to germinate. And few months or years after, start harvesting ginger.

12. Green Papaya

The green papaya is a vegetable in the Philippines. They slice it into small pieces and mix with coconut milk and sardinas.

This is delicious to eat. This plant grows well in the loam soil and better if you put where the sunlight is abundant. After years it will start to give you green papaya.

13. Hyancinth Bean

This vegetablea grows well in the Philippines. But only few farmers are growing this. This is a vine in which it crawl. In need support in climbing.

The hyacinth bean is also called bataw in the Philippines. This is easy to grow. After few monts of growing start harvesting the fresh bataw.

14. Jackfruit

The jackfruit is a vegetable when it is not ripe. In the country they peel it and slice to small pieces. In cooking this they puy some coconut milk and mix some fish or sardinas.

This plant grows well in the country and there are abundant of sunlight. It needs years of growing before you harvest the fresh jackfruit. It is also called langka in the place.

15. Lima Bean

Lima bean or in Philippines "Patani". This has a good taste and has many health benefits. This vegetable is commonly cooked witg coconut milk.

This plant is easy to grow. You just need to directly plant it on the ground and after few months around four to five months start harvesting young patani.

16. Moringa

Moringa or Malunggay is a vegetable with many health benefits. This vegetables grows well as it gets more sunlight. It produce more green and healthier leaves when it gets more sunlight.

You can grow malunggay in two ways, either through cuttings or through seeds. Most people grow this through cuttings as it grows fast. It is better if you don't apply much water as it begin to decay.

17. Munggo

Munggo is also one of the populat vegetable in Philippines. This is easy to grow especially in loam soil.

This vegetables needs more water and it will produce healthier leaves and more fruits to bear.

18. Okra/Ladies finger

This grows well in the country. Many farmers grows this even in the school as commonly type of vegetables. This grows well in loam soil.

The seeds of okra is small and color green to brown. This has a long fruit with a pointed tip. This is smoothe when you eat but has many health benefits so better to grow this plant.

19. Onion

The onion like garlic is also one of the most common ingredients in cooking. This is make the food more delicious.

The onion are being grown by the farmers. There are also few people growing onions at home but tends only few. This grows well in a place where sunlight is abundant.

20. Pechay

The pechay is one of the fastest vegatable to harvest. You can harvest this as early as 45 days. This is easy to plant and you should apply more efforts in watering this in the morning and in the afternoon everyday.

This is a green leafy vegetables so you need to care more on its leaves. When you do the effort expect it to make a better harvest.

21. Pepper

Pepper is a spicy vegetables. More people grows this easpecially in Bicol region. This is one of the most commonly mix to food to taste.

The pepper is also put to the laing recipe. The laing is best when it is spicy and delicious if that happen. This is easy to grow especially under the more sunlight.

22. Radish

Radish is like a carrot but it is color white. The radish grows well undet the sunlight. The more sunlight it gets it tends to become healthy.

The radish or it is called labanos in the Philippines. This has a small seeds and it grows from it. You need to wait for few months before you harvest young and fresh radish.

23. Sponge Gourd

This sponge gourd grows well in the country. This has a good taste. In terms of growing it needs few months before you harvest your first young sponge gourd.

To plant this make a hole around one inch deep and plant the seeds. Have a spacing of one meter apart.

When it started to climb put some climbing support. In that way it will grow its leaves and stem to that support. But usually in the Philippines gardeners let it climb to other plants.

After few months around five to six months start harvesting sponge gourd.

24. Squash

The squash or other term kalabasa. This is good for the eyes as it has many health benefits.

This grows well in places with abundant to sunlight. Get a quality seeds and plant it directly on the ground one inch deep. After a few weeks the squash will going to climb. Put some climbing support so that it will bear better fruits.

You can also let the kalabasa on the ground but it is much better to have a climbing support. After few months around four to six months start harvesting squash.

25. Sweet Potato Leaves

Sweet potato or camote is a vegetable if you get the leaves. This is easy to grow and after few months get the fresh young camote leaves.

Normally in planting camote you will get the camote slip or stem and then plant directly on the ground. It will start growing and show more leaves.

26. String Bean or Sitaw

There are varieties of string beans in the Philippines. The most common type are the longer ones. There are who turns violet after few weeks.

Growing string beans will be easy as it grows all across the country. Usually you can harvest string beans after four to five months.

27. Taro or gabi

Taro in english and gabi is called localy. In bicol dialect it is called natong. The leaves of gabi is being cook with mix of coconut milk.

It is also one of the most popular vegetable and the "Laing" dish is called to one of most famous dish in the Philippines.

28. Tomato

The tomato is listed as filipinos grows tomatoes. We know that tomato is a fruit but in the Ph it is treated as vegetables. In fact it is commonly use mix in cooking other foods.

This grows well in places with more sunlight. To grow this get a quality seeds and start growing this inside the seedbox or seedtray. When it has few leaves and enough height start transplanting the seedlings to its final location.

29. Water Spinach

This is also called kangkong in tagalog. There are two water spinach growing in the Philippines. The one that doesn't crawl and the one crawl.

Basically the crawling water spinach grows well near water areas. The other one that doesn't crawl is a vegetable planted in the garden which has a better taste compare to other one.

30. Winged Bean

This vegetable winged bean or sigarilyas is also grow in the Philippines. Few filipinos grow this in their backyard.

The fruits of it has a wings like that is why its called winged bean. To plant this get quality seeds then directly plant it on the ground one inch deep and a spacing of half meter apart.

31. Winter Melon

The winter melon or other called "kundol". This is good to eat. This is also easy to grow under the sun.

Just get quality seeds and you can grow this first in seedbox and do transplanting or directly plant it on the ground. This will bear some fruits after few months of growing.

Thank you for reading this article about list of filipino vegetables in the Philippines. Hope you learn some of the Philippine vegetables.

Also thank you for reading this. For your time spend and hope you learn even just a little. If you have some questions or comments leave it below. More upcoming post so stay tuned.

Today, learn the easy to grow fruits in the Philippines. In the environment many different plants, trees, and vegetables are growing around. Through them we had some foods to eat in everyday. So we should be thankful to them from the foods and also the oxygen we inhale. But today we are going to learn easy to grow fruits in the Philippines. Learn the these fruits and try to plant.


So, what are the easy to grow fruits in the Philippines? The easy to grow fruits in the Philippines are;

1. Mangoes
2. Banana
3. Avocado
4. Santol
5. Jackfruit
6. Durian
7. Papaya
8. Guava
9. Guyabano
10. Coconut

Some of the fruits easy to grow are just common in your place.

Easy to Grow Fruits in the Philippines

1. Mangoes

"The National Fruit of the Philippines". The mangoes are growing throughout the country. The Philippines has a tropical climate in which it suits to grow mangoes.

The mangoes has a heart shape like and has a delicious taste. You can find the mango capital of the Philippines in Guimaras. In that place you can taste the most sweetest mangoes in the country.

The mangoes are growing in most part of the country but in Guimaras will find the different taste of mangoes.

The mangoes are green when not ripe and yellow when fully ripe. There are varieties of mango in the Philippines the indian mango and carabao mango.

Why this fruit is easy to grow? Its because it grows well in the Philippines. As if you try to imagine in the most part of the country you will see mango tree.

The climate helps a lot because this fruit tree needs more sunlight and because of that sunlight it grows well.

To grow mangoes it needs more time and effort. It takes more years to grow and to harvest young mango fruit. You need to wait for almost 10+ years before you harvest the fresh young mango fruits.

2. Banana

The banana is one of a kind. This has many health benefits and it makes people happy.

The banana fruit is also easy to grow in the Philippines. Like mangoes, banana also can be seen throughout the country. It easily grows and you can see banana tree any where else.

There are varieties of banana in the Philippines like Lakatan, Latundan, Señorita, and Saba.

Growing this fruit would be easy. You just need to get some small banana tree and then plant it on the ground. The more highier your soil the more better it will bear fruits.

As if you notice when the banana tree is planted on a flat ground it doesn't bear more fruits. But when you put more soil like a small hill it bear more banana. Also when the soil is regularly moist it also help for more fruits to show.

You can find out the most sweetest banana in the country. So try to grow banana fruit in your yard.

3. Avocado

The avocado also grows well in the country. Do you already know this fruit? Do you ever had experience to taste this?

This fruit is sweet. It is green when not ripe and brown to red-violet color when totally ripe. The color of inside is green to yellowish. This has a big seed.

Growing this would be easy but you need to wait for years before you harvest the first fruit.

4. Santol

Santol is also a fruit grows well in the country. There are small and bigger size fruit. There are sweet and sour.

The tropical climate helps this tree to grows well. It needs more sunlight to produce more healthy leaves and abundant fruits.

Many filipinos eat it, but do you know that it can be treat as vegetable? Filipinos use it in sinigang. Or they make it into tiny pieces and put some peppers. Through that they have now foods to eat.

Growing this fruits is easy but you need to wait for few more years before you harvest your fruits.

5. Jackfruit

Jackfruit or langka in tagalog. This is also a fruit which has a delicious taste. When it is ripe it is color yellow and the best to eat.

The jackfruit also treated as vegetable. They remove the peel and make it into small pieces. Then they mix some coconut milk and cook. This is best when you mix some sardinas, so yummy.

Growing this from seeds is easy. You must dry it first under the sun and grow it first on some garnening plastic or containers before you plant on its final location. It needs more years before you harvest the fruit.

6. Durian

Durian mainly grows in Mindanao. It has some bad smell but it has a delicious taste.

Many people wants this as really you will miss Philippines if you not eat durian.

Durian grows in Mindanao and that is only place we know. We don't know if some farmers grows in Vizayas and Luzon.
So we will update this if it is capable to grow durian in Luzon and Vizayas.

7. Papaya

Papaya is a fruit that grows in other parts of the world. This is also growing in the Philippines.

Papaya grows well in a loam soil. It needs more sunlight to produce healthy leaves and abundant fruit production. The papaya tree can be treated as vegetable and fruit. Filipinos cooked the green papaya with coconut milk. They mix some sardinas bought from the store.

This is easy to grow because of the climate. There are bigger and smaller kind of papaya. There are tall and dwarf size varieties of papaya that you can plant in the country.

8. Guava

Guava or bayabas in tagalog. This is also easy to grow fruit in the country. There are bigger and smaller size guavas that you can find in the country. Guavas has a delicious taste and it also use to make guava jam.

Aside from that it has many health benefits that can help to our body. This has a Vitamin C which is very important of our body to protect us from any kind of diseases.

The best way to grow this is through air layering or budding. In which you will pick some old small stem then remove the skin of it. After that put some plastic and put soil inside. Tie it with some string and water it after. After three months it will grow more roots and you can cut it from mother guava and plant it on the ground.

This grows well in the country but only some people are growing this as mostly are growing other kinds of fruit, vegetable, and flowers.

9. Guyabano

Guyabano or soursop has many health benefits. Some people say its a cancer cell killer, you can heal from cancer when you eat guyabano.

This fruit has spiny fruit appearance but has soft thorns. It looks like a heart in some angles. The seeds of it is hard and color black.

The taste of it is sweet and sour. The tree is growing around 20 to 25 feet high.

Growing guyabano needs some effort. Growing the seeds doesn't have a guarante to have a high germination percentage. But the good thing is when you have the seedlings you can grow it well. Make sure to put it where the sunlight is abundant to have a maximum growth.

10. Lanzones

Lanzones is one of our favorite. We go to city just to buy this fruit. We have lanzones that time in our backyard but it doesn't bear fruits. Some said it is a male lanzones so it will not bear fruits.

But if you still want to grow this fruit then you can. The climate is not a problem because you can get more sunlight in the Philippines. Plus apply fertilizer so that it will grow well.

The fruit of it is small and also have a little bit bigger size of seeds compare to the size of its fruit.

Thank you for reading this article about easy to grow fruits in the Philippines. Hope you learn some thing even as little as possible.

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Root crop are crops growing under the soil. Some root crops like cassava, yam, and taro(gabi) grows well in the tropical country. But today we will not going to discuss about that. Let us learn how to grow sweet potatoes(camote).


So, how to grow camote? To grow camote, start getting camote slip with roots. Choose a location and make a gardens plot with 10 inches high, 1 meters wide and 3 metes long. Get trowel, make holes in the soil and plant the slip with 6 inches deep with a spacing of 12 inches apart. Water it regularly and avoid drying the soil. After 4 to 5 months, mature sweet potato can now be harvest.

This root crops had many nutrients content that will surely help our body like carbohydrates. This will make us strong and gives us energy in the whole day. You can eat the root crops as well as its leaves. So without further more here are the step by step procedure in planting camote.

How to Plant Camote

1. Get Camote Slip

The camote slip is just a stem of the sweet potato. This is what you are going to use in planting. Get the slip with roots so that it will grow easily.

You can get sweet potato slip then put it on a container. After few days it will produce some roots and then you can use it in planting camote. Or you can get fresh slip with leaves and then directly plant it on the ground.

There are some store selling slips with roots which you can use in planting. One bunch of camote slips just cost around $1 to $5+ depends upon the quality and the quantity and also of the store.

There are agricultural store which you can also buy some slips. Or just ask from some farmers near your location to give you some sweet potato slips to plant.

You can also get camote slips through the root crops. What you need to do is get one or more camote root crops and then put it on a container in which only the base of the root crops will touch of the water. After few days or weeks it will produce some slips and roots. Cut it after.

Becareful in cutting the slip on crops as it can be cut its roots. Try to do it carefully. After cutting it you can now use it in planting.

2. Makes the Garden Plot

When you have now the slip make now your gardens plot. A garden plot is a plot where you will going to grow your vegetables. This will need your time, energy and effort inorder to produce high yields and healthy camote plants.

Get your gardening cultivating tools like grab hoe and rake. Start holding the grab hoe firm and cultivate the soil. Be careful in doing this to prevent accident. After digging and cultivating the soil start forming the plot.

Form the soil with 10 inches high with one meter wide and three meters long. You can adjust the size according to your space. If you have a small space you can use that size. But if you have a little bit wide space you can add more length.

After that remove the grasses, roots, rocks or any other unwanted materials left on the soil. Those materials can affect your camote so better to remove them.

Make it pulvirize. There are many bunch of bigger size soil so you need to make it pulvirize. Use your hand to turn those into smaller one. After that start leveling it.

With the use of rake start leveling it. The soil will be level with the rake. Put also some compost on the soil. The more nutrients the soil content the better.

You can put organic fertilizer which have more nutrients needed by the camote. You can produce your own organic fertilizer by making a hole on the ground with a deep of one meter.

Then put inside the hole the following materials; leaves, grasses, leftover foods and animal manure. After few weeks it will start to decay and you can now use it to mix on the ground as fertilizer.

If the soil is ready now, lets go planting the camote.

3. Planting Camote Slip

Planting camote slip is a way where it will start to grow leaves and root crops. Let us start doing this. Are you ready? Lets go.

In planting camote slip, get two to three slip. Then make a hole on the soil around 6 inches deep with a spacing of 12 inches apart. This way there is a space for the root crops to grow well.

Cover it with the soil. After that apply some water. The roots will start to spread under the soil and continues to grow. The leaves will also appear after few days or weeks.

4. Applying Fertilizer

Does camote needs fertilizer? Absolutely yes. Every plant needs it. In fact the more the nutrients the soil have the more healthier and bigger its size.

The best fertilizer for camote is organic fertilizer. Why? Because people will eat the root crops so it is better if you apply the organic free from chimecal fertilizer. We already mention the procedure in making organic fertilizer in number 2.

In applying the fertilizer just put it on the base of camote plant and done. Easy as eating camote. But it is advisable that if you are going to put fertilizer put it as early as possible.

On the beginning of your garden plot making, put the fertilizer in that time. That is the best way to put the fertilizer as you will not worry anything.

5. Watet it Regularly

When is the best time to water camote? The best way to water camote is during 6 to 7 am in the morning and 4 to 5 pm in the afternoon.

Does it need to apply water everyday? No, you don't need to water it everyday. Just apply enough water when you see that the soil is too dry. Too much water can affect the crops and it might decay if it get a lot of water.

6. Care for Camote

How to care for camote? To care for camote simple, when you see pest or insect roaming around your garden remove them. Remove them why? We think you already know.

Pest or insect can damage and destroy your plants, probably they will start to eat the leaves so you need to remove them. Worms and bugs are the main pest of the camote.

In caring also water it and apply some fertilizer. That way you show your care to camote plant. Be consistent in doing that and it will produce high yields and healthier plants.

7. Harvest Camote

You can do two things harvest the leaves or harvest the root crops. If you will harvest the leaves get the fresh and young leaves. Those red to purple color on its leaves. It has a heart shape leaves that is commonly eaten. Because there are also other camote variety in which only root crops are being eated.

When the camote grows and continues to produce more leaves you can get those and cook. You can mix it on a fish and eat.

You can also harvest the root crops after 4 to 5 months still depends upon on how to care for it. It will adds more months depending on the climate and also the other factos such as sunlight and water.

In harvesting the root crops just uproot the camote and get its root crops. You can get bigger and smaller size camote crops.

Also you can see color white, purple, and orange root crops depends upon on its variety.

Some related questions about camote.

Can You Plant Camote in Container?
Yes you can plant camote in container. Get those bigger size container so that you can get a bigger root crops. Also put more fertilizer and expect a bigger root crops.

Can You Plant Camote on Sand?
Yes definitely you can plant camote on sand. In fact in that soil the camote grows bigger root crops compare to loam soil. Its because the soil in loam is compacted and heavy compare to sand that it is light and have many small space to grow its crop.

How to Plant Camote Easily?
To make it easier to plang camote just get a good gardening tools to use so that you can work well and easier. It will also help you to avoid any accident and will be light and comfortable to handle.

How long does it takes to plant camote?
Estimated around one hour to two hours. It will depends on your work and the tools you are using. You will put more work on the soil as it takes more time to cultivate it. I mean it takes only one to two hours in planting camote. It exclude until the harvesting.

But if you mean how long does it takes to grow camote until harvesting then the answer would be around four to five months.

Do You Need to Put Fence on Camote?
In some what yes especially when there's a chicken. On its first phase they can probably destroy your crops by scratching the ground. So you can also put some fence.

Thank you! Thank you for reading this article about camote. You read this from the start to finish that is good to hear from us. You spend your time and effort in reading this and we hope you learn something even as little.

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Today, know what are the importance of urban gardening in the Philippines. Urban gardening is a way of gardening in the urban places or city.

Planting vegetable inside the pots/containers is very amazing. When it grows it felt so well as it makes you happy everytime you see it. And so today, let us know the importance of urban gardening in the Philippines.


So, what are the importance of urban gardening in the Philippines? The importance of urban gardening in the Philippines are;
1. Save Invironment
2. Produce More Foods
3. Creates Vegetable Garden Even Lack of Space
4. Makes Surrounding Beautiful
5. Produce More Oxygen
6. Produce Works
7. Extra Income

Plants have a very important role in our life. Not only to people but also to animals. We get foods from them and the breathe the air because of them.

Growing in urban places is a very uniqe ideas in which you are making it not just for self but it has also role in the society. Let us dig deeper below.

Importance of Urban Gardening in the Philippines

1. Save Invironment

Mostly in urban places, gardeners use recycled materials like pots and container. They use the bottle of mineral water, pale, can of milk and any other container.

Through the container they create a garden. They put some soil inside and then put some seeds to grow. Vegetables can grow inside the pots. They are varieties of them like tomatoes.

People grows vegetable in the pots and because of that they save the nature. Why? Because they recycled the materials. Recycling is one form of caring to our nature.

You use those things and did not throw it to the bodies of water or any where. Because of that you show your care to the planet earth.

Thats the importance of urban gardening, saving mother earth from destruction.

2. Produce More Foods

Having a vegetable garden in the city has many benefits. One thing is it produce more foods. When your vegetable starts to grow from seeds. And after few months you can start to harvest.

And because of that it produce foods. Foods that you can eat and provide the needs of the family. We all need food and through gardening you can get some.

For example you get a container and then put soil inside. Inside you plant tomato. The tomato will grow if you give some care like watering it everyday, put some fertilizer and so on. After few months you can now get some tomato fruits.

It is amazing thing that in a simple way you can provide foods for your family. That's another thing why gardening is important.

3. Creates Vegetable Garden Even Lack of Space

In the city there are many structures like buildings, houses, roads, mall etc,. You will see that most are made up of cement and you can't see ground.

So when you do urban gardening you will use containers, pots, or sack where you can put soil inside. Even there are no place to grow vegetables there are still pots to carry on. You can still have a way of growing your favorite plants.

You can make a garden even lack of space. Use the small space inside the container and make it as big vegetable garden in the city. Theres a reason to grow plants and theres no excuse that you can't do it.

4. Makes Surrounding Beautiful

Urban gardening is not just about vegetable, you can also plant flowers inside the pots. And it makes the surrounding beautiful.

The flowers has a characteristic that attract us. When we see flowers it feels good it's because it is pretty, has a good smell, and colorful.

When you see them you see the world is so beautiful. It makes people happy and it makes your surrounding much better.

Growing flowers will be easy for you. There are flowers that you can plant like roses and orchids. These flowers are easy to care and it will bear more flowers as time pass.

5. Produce More Oxygen

Through the plants we can breathe. It's because we get oxygen from plants.

Producing more oxygen can happen if you grow more plants. Through the simple plants it can help even as little. The vegetable, flowers can produce small amount of oxygen. But we know if all those small amount will be collected we can produce huge amount of oxygen.

You can't grow trees inside the containers as it needs more space to grow it's roots. It will spread and needs to hold the soil. But there are also dwarf trees that you can grow inside the container. Like for example there are dwarf papaya trees that even small it produce more papaya fruits.

So if you are growing trees in the city pick those drawft variety. It will produce more fruits and also the oxygen that everyone needs.

6. Produce Works

It doesn't mean that you are in the city your work will be in office, factories, or any establishment. You can also work as a gardener, a farmer, or agriculturist.

Planting is a kind of work and it provides food. Foods are the basic essential needs of people so we need to produce more foods. We need foods to supply energy to our body. Without them we can't move and we will become weak.

Urban gardening can makes work. It can also creates work for other people like for example. You have a big garden in the city. And because you can't do it with all yourself, you will hire some people to work with you. And because of that you create works or job for other people.

7. Extra Income

When you have a garden it will produce foods. The vegetable you harvest in your garden can be a source of income.

You can sell the vegetable and earn some money. The money you gets can be use to buy some other materials needed by the family.

Also in no.6 was mention that you hire a worker so your worker can earn through gardening.

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Today, lets talk about reasons why you need to have vegetable garden planner. Planning in making vegetable garden is very important as it will help to the success of a healthy and bigger plants.

Through the use of vegetable garden planner you can achieve in highier chance. And here are the things why it will help you definitely. And thats why reasons why you need to have a vegetable garden planner is here.

So what are the reasons why you need to have vegetable garden planner? The reasons why you need to have vegetable garden planner are you will know the following have guide, proper time, what vegetables to plant, when to start making plots, when to start sowing seeds, when to apply fertilizer, and when to harvest.

That is a simple broad information why you need a vegetable garden planner. When you have that for a specific vegetable you can plant it acurately and you will know all of the especial time of the plants like sowing it, applying fertilizer, and also harvesting.

When you know the time three months before you know what will happen in the following days, or weeks even months. Aside from that when you know everything about the plants you will be aware of what you will do and what you need to do. So without further more here are the reason why you need to have vegetable garden planner.

1. To Have Guide

When you are a beginner and you have less knowledge in gardening, you need more knowledge and guide in running it. You need extra time to make a research about what you are going to plant. As if you know the vegetable, you will be aware of what to do.

For example you are a beginner and you are going to plant tomatoes. Then you are also making your first garden in you whole life. In the start it is hard to move as you don't know what are the things you need. Like what are the tools you need in gardening. How far a part to plant your tomatoes. And also how to grow it in your house.

There are many things you need to know first. You need to find and ask help from the expert or you can try to search on the internet and know it how. And that's why vegetable gardening planner is very important. When you have the planner you know what to do for the first day.

The vegetable garden planner is a plan contains series of activities which has corresponding date. This plan will guide you in growing your garden. That is the definition of vegetable garden planner. For example it shows that you need to make your gardening plot. Second day is germinating your seeds. And so on. That is a simple content inside a planner.

Why you need to have the planner is because you can avoid Risk. When you know everyhing about what to do and the very especial day you are aware of what to happen. If that's the case you can try to avoid to fail your garden as you have a bases, you have guide. As if that happen you will going to the right path.

2. To Know The Proper Time

There are seasonal plants that only grows for a specific time. That plants can not grow in the whole year as it grows only for a season. When you have that planner you will know when is the right time for that vegetable to plant. Also if you are living in those places with many season then you need to have planner.

For example today in your location you afre currently experiencing sunny day. That weather will continues for few more months. And because of that you can think what are the possible vegetable to plants during summer that you will grow in your garden.

Then when you know the specific time for each vegetable to plant in your garden you can now continues. Start choosing the best vegetable you can grow. When the vegetable planted on the time which is best it can grow well. You can see a bigger and healthier plants because it suits for the day.

They need a right season and it helps them to grow better when they are in the place they need. You can not grow vegetables in summer if they are rainy season vegetable or vice versa. So be careful in choosing a vegetable to plant in your garden. You must base on when is the right time.

3. Know What Vegetable To Plant

As said a while ago you will know the right time and in that case you will also know the right vegetables to plant in your garden. There are seasonal plants that grows onces in a year, it means that there is only specific time for that plant to grow.

For example vegetable bulbs like onions and garlic grows well in sunny day. You can not grow onions when it is rainy season as it will not grow well. Aside from that when you have the vegetable plannet you can plan out the series of vegetable you will grow in the whole year.

You can choose which plant can you groq in the month of January? Or maybe in February? With just because of the planner you have you can make a better result and you will think less as you have the lists of plants you will grow in the following months.

With every plants that listed inside the plan you can prepare what tools to use and also what fertilizer to be apply in. You can also know how to control pests and insects when you see a few of them roaming arround. Okay let us continue.

4. Know When to Start Making Plots

The vegetable garden planner will definitely provide you the exact date and the proper time to make your gardens plot. When you start making a garden especially you have a little bit more wide space in  gardening, you need to make your gardens plot.

A gardens plot is uplifted soil above the ground. In making a plot you need some tools or equipment before you do it. The tools will help you to make it easier for you to build it. Like for example you need grab hoe to cultivate the soil. A grab hoe is a tool use for cultivating. In making a plot what you need to do is use grab hoe.

To use that get a grab hoe from your house or garden place where you store it. Next is go to the place where you are going to make your plot. Then with both hands hold the grab hoe's handle firm to make it secure it will not be thrown away. And after that start cultivating the soil. That is a short explanation of how to use grab hoe in making gardens plot.

So the planner will help you to decide in what day you will make your garden, as the vegetable planner will show you from day one up to the last. It includes all necessary things like those examples above and because of it you can have a better vegetable growth.

5. Know When to Start Sowing Seeds

In gardening you need seeds in order to grow it but there are also some vegetables which stem is being used. Commonly gardeners grow a garden through seeda. Quality seeds is a key to make sure it will grow. This will help you to make a successful garden which will gives you happiness.

You need a quality seeds meaning it will 90-100% surely it will germinate. To find that kind of seeds, try to look on your nearest agricultural store which you can buy almost all kinds of seeds. The seeds that they sell a high quality. As you can see there are colors on the seeds. That color is a good liquid apply which make prolong the life of the seeds and that also help to germiniate it more faster. Every small pack of seeds just cost $1-$3 depends upon on the seeds. It can cost highier or lower depends upon on which country.

Germinating seeds it takes 2-5 days. For example the string beans, winged beans, lima beans are fast germinating seeds a it has a soft cover which make it faster to germinate. There are also plants which it takes a weeks or even a few months as they have a hard seeds cover that makes it difficult to sprout.

When it is fast sprouting, you can plan the day you will sow it. That will help you to distinguish when to do other things.

6. Know When to Apply Fertilizer

Seing a vegetable growing is amazing a heart touching one. This make you happy and all your efforts are worth it and all your tiredness are gone. But what if you see your plants with few leaves even it is more than a weeks or months old. And also you notice that doesn't grow well what you need to do is applying fertilizer.

When the soil is not abundant when it comes to nutrients you need to apply fertilizer which will support to a better growth of the plants. The plants need water, sunlight, carbondioxide and also the nutrients on the soil. Of what is on the foot will surely spread to it's leaves so better to make sure a highly soil is possible.

7. Know When to Harvest

Harvest time is the best one. With the vegetable gardening planner you will know how many days does it takes for a specific vegetable to grow from planting up to harvesting. So you have an estimated date when you will harvest it.

Aside from that you will be aware of what will happen in the following series of days and weeks and months so you can notice it all base on the plan and even on your experience. A good panning is better if you apply some good strategy on that.

How to make your own Vegetable Garden Planner
To make vegetable garden planner first get a paper in which you will write all the details and information from day one upto the last. Second choose one vegetable which you pick to make a plan.

Then on the first day, write what you do like for example on day one you make a plot, then on second day you start germinating seeds upto day eight, and then you appy fertilizer on day you choose. What you need to do write every details you do in each day. Even you just wait for the seeds to germinate you shoul write that also as you can make a best guide. This will help you and even more gardeners.

When you finish that upto harvesting then you know what to do. You can plant many vegetable and write each a planner.

Conclusion: Vegetable garden planner is use to guide you in growing vegetables from from up to harvesting. This is useful especially to those new in gardening. This help them to know what are the possible things will happen and they will be aware of what to do. Make your garden with family, feel the happiness and enjoyment.

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This is about how to grow string beans (sitaw). There are many varieties of vegetable that you can plant in your garden. There are smaller and bigger size plant that gives you foods. But there are also vegetable vines grows. Today, learn how to grow string beans (sitaw) in your garden.

So, how to grow string beans (sitaw)? To grow string beans, make a plot. Then choose quality string beans seeds. After that go to garden's plot and plant the seeds an inch deep and cover with soil. Make a spacing of 12 inches apart. Apply some fertilizer, mulch, put fence and water it regularly. It can now be harvest after 2 to 3 months.

What is String Beans?
String beans is a vegerable vines. This have a long vines which crawl. The leaves of it is smooth. The flowers is color violet when appear and looks like a butterfly. The fruit of is about 8 to 14 inches long depends on variety. The seeds is color green when not ripe and color indigo to black when ripe for some variety. It is color brown when dry.

Few questions. Ma'am/Sir are you new to gardening? Or are you have some experience in gardening? Or you are a student who are conducting a research. Why we ask, theres nothing on that hope you will learn even as little information. So continue reading.

How to Plant String Beans

1. Make a Plot

Choose a location where you will grow string beans. This spot should be receiving enough sunlight so that the vegetable will grow well. Also if the place attain more soil moisture it will produce more high quality fruits. Better to have a loam soil.

Get your gardening tools like grab hoe and rake. Using the grab hoe start cultivating the soil. After that remove the grasses. And start leveling it using the rake. Be careful on handling these tools to prevent accident.

You can mix some organic fertilizer like compost which is produce through organic matters. Put it on a soil and mix it using hands and make it pulvirize.

Have a meter wide, two meter length and 10 inches high. The roots will start to grow so need some adjustment on the plots height. Lets go to next step.

2. Choose Quality String Beans Seed

Getting string beans seeds is easy. Buy some string beans seeds at the agriculture store, online store or buy some string beans seeds for sale near your location. The selling price for high quality sitaw seeds may cost around $1 to $2+ or 50 to 100 pesos per pack.

Those seeds are in package in which one pack may contain around 20 to 100+ seeds. The seeds appearance may have colors on it or a chemical in which it help the seeds to make longer its life.

Or if you have string beans in your garden, let it dry and when the pods are color brown you can now use it in planting.

The seeds of string beans are almost 100% will germinate as long as it has good size, the color and texture. They are bigger enough and color indigo to black. Those brown seeds and smaller size probably they will not germianate or in such case they will germinate but the it will grow poorly.

3. Planting String Beans from Seeds

After making the gardens plot and having string bean seeds, we are now going to plant. On the plot make an inch deep hole and put one seeds inside. Make spacing about six inches apart.

If you have a bigger and longer size plot with a wide space put one seeds only so that it can grow its roots. But if your gardens space is limited, you can put two seeds per hole.

After putting the seeds, water it. The water will help it to start to germinate. How long does string beans will germinate? Usually it takes 3 to 5 days before you see some tiny leaves.

4. Applying Fertilizer

How to apply fertilizer on String Beans? We recommended to apply organic fertilizer. The organic fertilizer is come from decaying organic materials like grass, leaves, leftover foods and animal manure.

Organic fertilizer is best as we are not using chemical fertilizer from the market. But you can also use that if you want.

To apply organic fertilizer, get the fertilizer and cultivate the soil few inches and be careful not to cut string beans roots. Put the fertilizer and mix it on the soil.

When to apply fertilizer on String Beans? Apply when it is 18 inches long as it will help to longer its vines.

5. Add Support for Climbing

String beans is a vegetable vines in which it crawls. It is advise to make support for its climbing. When you put some wires or string, the vines will goes to it and continue to grow.

You can put support by putting some pole on both ends of the plot and tie a string and continue building it as the plants can grow. Tie a string or wires on its vine going upward.

Make a string like a rectangle shape look as long as the leaves and stem of the vines will goes to it and it can use as support.

6. Water it Everyday

This vegetable needs more water so that it will grow faster and easier.

When is the time to water string beans? The best time to water it is 6 to 7 am in the morning and 4 to 5 pm in the afternoon.

Also don't let a day to pass not to water it. It is best if this vegetables will gets enough water.

7. Put Some Mulch

The mulch will surely help to maintain the moisture on the soil. To add mulch simply get some dry grasses, leaves or small wood chips and put it on the base of the plant.

The mulch will help to prevent the evaporation of the water on the soil. This will act as a shade and will help the vegetables to grow well.

The more mulch you add the better. And also when the mulch start to decay it will serve as your new fertilizer.

String Beans Care
You need to apply some care for this vegetables. In fact if you do that more healthier leaves, flowers and fruits/pods will produce.

How to care for String Beans? You can care for that by removing pest and insect on the leaves. When you see pest try to remove it as much as possible. Those pest will surely eat the leaves and also its flower.

There are worms and bugs in which will roam around. Inspect it as often as possible so that it will grow healthy.

Also the ants are one of the insect destroying this vegetable. When you see a formation of group of ants on the stem or leaves remove them. They are eating or affecting the growth.

Late before we don't mind it as it is just ants. But no remove them as fast as possible. To remove them you will not use your bare hands. Instead get a dipper and put some water inside, then mix a laundry soap. After that water the leaves or stem parts where there are formation of ants.

Also water it everyday. It needs your care by applying enough water.

Also try to grow it where the sunlight is abundant. We know that through the sun, the plants make its food. The more sunlight the better.

It needs minimum of 4 hours time to under the sun and the more time the better outcome.

When to harvest String Beans?
Start harvesting string beans within 2 to 3 months. Do this early in the morning so that you can maximize your time in whole day.

How to Harvest String Beans?
Harvest string beans by twisting the base of the pods to the stem. Avoid cutting the stem because this is where the flowers bear and its pods.

Start picking the young green pods which have enough length, depends on its variety. You can also harvest the older and the dry pods after 3 months.

Can You Grow String Beans in Container?
Yes, you can grow string beans in container. Make sure to use bigger size pots. The roots of it will spread so better to use pots like pale or container with 18 cm in diameter.

But take note. Usually this vegetable is planted directly on the soil which grows better. So if you have some space to plant try to plant it directly.

Growing String Beans at Home
If you will grow this at home for family needs like food you can do it. It is very enjoyable to plant this and wait for 3 months and start harvesting your crops. Just follow the steps above.

What is the String Beans Price in the Market?
One small bunch of string beans cost around 10 to 20 pesos. It still depends on the stock and the freshness. People buy it for foods to eat.

There's a quick story in planting at school. When we are in grade six, we experience how to grow string beans at school. That time we didn't create the plot but some students and teachers make the plot. They also plant the seeds and after few days it start to germinate.

That time everybody of us in four section has its own plot. We see how it grows. What we did that time is water it every morning and afternoon. But one major ploblem that time is water supply.

There are times that there's no water so we just wait for one day or two before to water it again. After 3 months we harvest some pods. But we just get few. For me the reason why is, it is planted on mud soil.

For me the vegetable will grow but not as healthy and better compare to loam soil. So we advise to plant it on loam soil.

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