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Plant lemon grass to eradicate weeds and take advantage of vacant land

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Hello Hive Garden Lovers,In Indonesia today is a national holiday to welcome the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadhan, government and private institutions are closed, so today I have time to do gardening. Beside my house, there is an abandoned vacant land. Since my mother passed away last year, no one has taken care of this land. Even though the area is only 120 square meters, if it is planted with various vegetables and herbs, this land will be very useful. Today I will start clearing this empty land of weeds, I will start little by little. I will plant lemongrass, lemon grass is also a shrub, so by planting lemon grass, weeds will be suppressed.

I will start clearing the weeds. If you see them, these weeds will break our spirits. This weed grows very well, that's why I don't want to see it. I had to uproot it immediately and get rid of it from my garden.

After the weeds disappeared bit by bit, I started making holes to plant the lemongrass.

Every time I dig, I find some earthworms. Casing soil is useful for fertilizing the soil. Earthworms eat soil and then excrete it back into fertile manure. That's why I didn't kill him.

After making the hole, I let the hole sit for about 30 minutes, this is so that the gas in the ground decreases. The presence of gas in the soil will cause the plants we just planted to die due to the effects of the heat of the gas in the soil. While waiting, I will pick wild spinach leaves that grow a lot around this land.

On wild spinach stalks, there are green flowers, my grandma said, we shouldn't eat the flowers, they don't taste good. Every time I picked wild spinach, I would remove the flowers.

I managed to get hold of a basin of wild spinach. This spinach grows wild without being fertilized and tastes fresh. I'm going to cook it this afternoon and I'll post it on the Vegan community.

I also found the Telang plant (Clitoria ternatea), the part consumed is the flower which is rich in antioxidants. This plant is easy to grow anywhere. I found a lot of Telang plant seeds, I will take some of them and I will plant them in my garden.

It didn't feel like the sun was starting to rise, I immediately planted the lemongrass. In one hole, I filled it with two stalks of lemongrass seeds.

Because the weather was getting hot, I only managed to clean and plant a few stalks of lemongrass. I will continue tomorrow, step by step, if it is done it will be finished too.

Even though I was tired, I was very happy to be able to plant a few stalks of lemongrass. If I don't plant, I won't harvest. Happy Gardening, friends🥰

Thank you for reading my post. Keep the spirit to make the earth green, even though we are only able to plant one tree today, this is better than not planting even one tree.

Best Regards @umirais