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People don't grow watermelons on raised beds. That's what they told us. Right, and that's why, we supposed, conventionally grown local watermelon have such a bad reputation for pesticides and fungicides! It's logical, our climate is humid and wet, not really ideal for watermelon.  Further, local weeds will overwhelm the watermelon plant in days. So if we plant them on the ground then its logical that pests, fungal diseases and weeds must be kept at bay using a cocktail of chemicals - 3 in one!! :) This is the raised bed we used: Four bricks high, layer of compost at the...

Raised beds incorporating design to maximise planting areas and reducing energy input was developed by the Permaculture movement.  At DQ, we have added a small innovation, i.e. to make it expandable . The expandable raised beds are now producing their third harvest: This is bayam pasir again.  We rotated the bed used.           And this is sawi bunga, a...

  I have this thing about Darkness.   So we decided to build a spot of darkness in a corner of the farm; a spot dedicated to dark colored plants.   Plants with dark leaves, dark flowers,...