Mananaman

VHG (Vegetable Home Gardening) - it is so fun to do and highly beneficial for our family. It's 100% organic and it is good to eat without pesticides. Mananaman - means planting in Kapampangan dialect / language. Me, my mother & friends loves vegetables home gardening. President Jose M. Briones of Angeles Philippines Stake (CJCLDS) shared to us the power of vegetable home gardening. I'm so grateful to him for his wonderful inspiration. We did it and we're happy to eat the nutritious cassava, moringa (malungay), eggplants, tomatoes, ube, red hot chili pepper, sweet potatoes, okra, sting beans, sigarilyas and bitter melons. Instead of buying in the market, we just pick up or harvest in our home garden. Saves some money.


Other benefits I saw in recent days the place has cooler and clean air, that's good for our blood circulation. The compost soil with living organisms like beneficial earthworms & millipedes. Lady bugs kills the destroyer aphids, Birds (Denas) eats the worms that cuts and eats the leaves. One Denas bird landed on my belly while I'm seated and I hold it and set it then let it flyaway. Prying mantis slams and eats grasshoppers and crickets. Dragonflies, fruit bats and toads (carag) catches dengue and malaria mosquitoes. Bees & butterflies with variety of colors white, yellow, brown, multicolor & apple green. Some butterflies landed on my right hand. I saw the impressive balance of nature and life and no need to put pesticides and fertilizer (abono) that's harmful for our body and ecosystem. My friends has home vegetable & fruits gardens, too. President Pabs Marbella with his neighbors in Barangay Calulut. They made used of the vacant lots for awesome vegetable gardening in their area. Isidro Roque Puno Sr sets a great vegetable garden in Rockville, Barangay Malpitic. Rey Suyom has impressive fruit bearing trees in Mexico, Pampanga. Ramboo's father from Mexico (P) is great in planting, too. Fiscal Caliope Jung de Guzman and her mother are great in backyard vegetable gardening in Summer-field. Jenny Teopengco is great in planting eggplants in cans while Lilia Segovia has hanging plants in Northville - 14. My mother produces home gardening in our side-yard and mind is in Saudi Arabia Barangay Bulaon. Ronald P. David (my taller friend & teammate in Streetball Iraq) is king of vegetable gardening in Iraq, Barangay Bulaon. My college teacher in farming Mr. L. Arceo BSIE of Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University (DHVTSU), Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines is expert in vegetable gardening. I'm I a cooler hand or green thumb cos most of the seeds I planted are sprouting and growing. Nowadays, I thank God for the rains and good sunlight. Vegetables and fruits are one of the things that makes me younger looking.

Farmville vs Home Gardening

Not really a versus thing. Farmville is an inspirational game in Facebook that teach children and people how to manage a simple to super farm. Some children, kindred, tongues and people stays home peacefully harvesting their veggies, fruity and floral plus their animal production. Help and gifts of the friends and friendly neighborhood are goodwill and additional promotion in this wonderful game. I love planting any variety of plants in my life and people said I'm Mr. Cool Hands. Cos when I planted seeds and cuttings they will sprout healthily. And grow rapidly then I harvest the fruits of my labor. My ancestors are great farmers and my father and brothers are good planters, too. We used the 2nd hand waters from laundry to water them. We love our home garden of fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants. Industry and perseverance is the key in planting. And there are instances that are being stole, stepped, destroyed by children, eaten by pests and stray animals or being damage by weather disturbances and volcanic eruption. And it is part of life and progression. I still planted some crops like cassava and veggies. And take care of the trees. These are my life's experiences in field of home gardening. Nowadays, I have a cute humbly crib without much land for gardening. Just for the ornamental plants in the front of my house. My mother used cans, plastics and other recycling materials in planting. And I barrows a vacant land one kilometer away from my home. I acknowledge the following Mang Pedro - (Aileen's grandpa), Aileen, Ronald and his family in helping me cultivate and water my crops. I do water also the existing trees like jack-fruit, cashew tree, banana trees, guyabano / sour sop, guava trees, little atis and malunggay shrubs. To survives the El Nino dry spell in the land. I tried to plant cassava in riverbanks, too cos the land is partially wet and suitable for cassava. And I felt the gentle breeze, then I planted grasses-(one day mini rose-like) to beautify the area in this hot long summer.
And home gardening is very essentials in our lives today. Instead of buying in market we will save some money from the production of our home gardening plantation. And they are safe to eat without pesticides. And stores some crops for the rainy season and in times of emergency. Home gardening is good things to do. Now I saw my brother played Farmville, then I tried it and it is good. Serves as inspiration to do the real stuff of home gardening using vacant lots, cans, tires, bamboos, plastics and other recycling materials. Jose Briones a great leader inspired others to do home gardening and I so glad. He told to some people to do family home gardening. And they did the message and they have wonderful fruits of their awesome labors. Have a wonderful day.