Making Plant Supports (Garden Activities 24 February 2024)

Once you deep dives into garden activities, you will have work that never ends but also satisfying to do!

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I really like my new decision to become a gardener. Of course, it's very tiring. But any work also makes us tired. So, being tired is not an important problem.

Being a gardener also makes you feel like you are spending free time with my late mom.

A neighbor came to me while I was doing activities in the garden. She said, "if my mother were still alive, my mother would definitely be very happy with my current garden."

I smiled, immediately remembering the times when my mother and I really enjoyed looking for beautiful ornamental plants for us to look after. Also, my mother would be very excited if I bought a beautiful new plant.

Unfortunately, our togetherness didn't last long. And, I can only reminisce about that here. Again, I'm grateful. God didn't leave me alone. God sent me a husband who always supports me, also helps me to clear the land to become my garden. My husband is also willing to not work to be able to realize my dream of having a garden right next to my room.

As you know, I have started gardening. In the process of changing empty land that was previously left as it was, it is now slowly starting to be filled with green plants.

So, today, I will show you my garden activities. Today I focused on making plant supports from bamboo material. So, stay tuned!

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Tomato Supports

The price of tomatoes is still relatively expensive in various regions in Indonesia. So, growing tomatoes is also fun if you can save money on tomatoes! But more importantly, my tomato plants are using organic fertilizer.

In the previous post, I showed the flowers of the tomato plant. This time I am quite happy to be able to show you the fruits. I am very happy to see a view like this. 😊❤️

At first, tomatoes supported me to make short plant supports. That's because this is also my first experience. So, I don't know if tomato plants can grow tall.

So, I decided to repair those tomato supports by reconnecting them with bamboo sticks.

You can see the results for yourself, tomato supports look higher than before.😊

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After that, I threw away the part at stem armpit.

This is to avoid dividing plant nutrients into unimportant parts. So, the plant can focus on nourishing the fruit on the plant.😊

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These tomatoes are beautiful and I can't wait to share them when harvest day arrives. I pray that these fruits are fine. ❤️

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Green Bean Supports

Green bean seeds have grown. 11 days today. I also decided to make plant supports for green bean plants.

I still have some small bamboo sticks. I can use this as plant supports for green beans.

I also moved a total of 7 green beans to a location that gets full sunlight and is a permanent location until these green bean plants can be harvested.

I also prepared a rope to connect the bamboo sticks so that they are long enough.

I thought doing this was pretty easy at first. But it turns out I was wrong. 🤣 Classified as a time consuming activity. This is because I have to connect the two bamboo sticks well so that when there is wind, the plant supports remain upright and don't fall.

After successfully connecting one bamboo stick to another, I also stuck the plant supports into each polybag.

Then, I joined all those plant supports with a tie at the top end so that they became one strong, upright unit.

This is quite tall, but I plan to add more ropes for additional horizontal plant supports. It's almost dark today so I'll continue this tomorrow. See you ❤️

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Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari

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