The Road To Simplicity This blog is about our transition from city life to a simpler life

25May/090

How to make compost tea

In keeping with being green, we chose to use compost tea. Unlike commercial fertilizers where they're pretty much ready to use, there's a bit of prepwork that goes with Compost tea. Now, don't let this turn you off.  Aside from using all-natural beneficial bacteria, compost tea won't harm the environment.

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25May/090

Planting Map

I promised to show you guys the final planting map for the 2000sqm land. This is a pdf file that contains the mapping of the Nam Doc Mai mangoes, Longkong Lanzones and the "Tomboy" Calamansi.  All these plants costs about Php17250 or (~$370) .  Additional expenses include shipping them from Davao Php5000 (~$110) and trucking Php10000 ($215).

Final Planting Map

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25May/090

Low Bark Nam Doc Mai

We're crazy for mangoes. They're golden, they're sweet and aromatic.  Before all this, the only mangoes I knew were the "piko",  "kalabaw", "supsupin" and "indian" mangoes. After researching which mango variety would work, we opted for the Thai-variety, Nam Doc Mai.

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