Lets start at the very beginning,
A very good place to start,
When you read you begin with,
A-B-C,
When you plantorganicsayuryoubeginwith
N-P-K
N-P-K
The first three nutrients just happen to be
N-P-K
N-P-K-Mg-Zn-Ca-Fe!
Hmm…let’s see if I can make it easier.

Hehehe…ok ok ok. Serious again. The Sound of Music is our favouritest movie of all, and we love every song. Now we borrow this famous song to bring emphasis to an important part of understanding organic sayur.

In school last time, our Kimia teacher was always very sad. We think it’s because his students all don’t like Kimia.

So anyway, we don’t want you to stop reading this just because you hate Kimia, so we will try to be simple.

N is for Nitrogen.

For all living tissues in the world (your tissue and organic sayur tissue also), N is like cement. Hydrogen is like bricks. These building materials make the walls of life called amino acids, which is a group of complex compounds that contain the chemical group NH2. Amino acids bundle together in even more complex ways to become protein – ‘walls’ form up to make ‘buildings’ that we call people and organic sayur.

No nitrogen and hydrogen, no growth. Organic sayur will get all the hydrogen they need from water (H2O). But nitrogen problem a bit. Actually the air got between 70% and 78% nitrogen but the problem is when the nitrogen atom is floating around freely, nobody and no organic sayur can use it. Nitrogen has to be linked with other atoms in molecular compounds (called nitrates and nitrites) for living systems to extract it. Got no logic isn’t it? So much nitrogen in the air, but cannot use. So much money in the bank but their not yours. If only our lungs can absorb oxygen AND nitrogen too. But what to do? Life is like that.

P is for Phosphorus.

P goes to the roots. Simply, P makes sure that the food made by the leaves through photosynthesis will reach the roots.

K is exactly the same as B in Malaysia.

The Malaysian car licence plate for Selangor is B mah. But “S-e-l-a-n-g-o-r” got no “B”. So K is the same as B because K is for “P-o-t-a-s-s-i-u-m” which got no K. That’s why K and B are the same.

K goes to the fruits.

K helps organic sayur to absorb and hold on to water. And it helps organic sayur synthesize protein from N. Because of that, K helps organic sayur to grow great fruits. Cili padi, lady’s fingers, cucumber are organic sayur that are actually fruits. At the same time, K helps organic sayur leaves to become tougher and be able to tolerate diseases.

So boleh tak? We hope we kept it simple for you.

N is for nitrogen and helps leaves.

P is for phosphorus and helps roots.

K is just like B and it helps fruits.

Other nutrients, generally called trace minerals, are important but needed in very tiny quantities. Magnesium, iron, zinc, copper and many others lah. In the wild, cacing and micro-organisms will break down organic matter and these will release trace minerals for plants.

But in normal farms, farmers need to grow vegetables and fruits as fast as possible and as big as possible. Business mah; don’t blame them lah. To do that, they put chemical salts into their land that give fantastic amounts of N, P and K. But the salts kill cacing and micro-organisms and this will cut down the natural supply of trace minerals. They then put other chemicals and also hormones to try to give some of those trace minerals, but this is very susah to manage manually. Plants need trace minerals at particular times in very, very, very small amounts. Put too much and plants can die. Putting too little is a waste of time because chemical salts dissolve and wash away with rain so its hard to make sure artificially put trace minerals are there for their plants whenever they’re needed.

That’s the reason that vegetables you buy in the market look big and nice, but organic sayur taste crunchier and tastier, even though they take a little bit longer to grow and don’t look so grand. Chemical salts with N, P and K will make plants grow well, but without those trace minerals, vegetables are not as nutritious as we would like it. Chemicals make vegetables LOOK good. Vegetables are supposed to supply us with vitamins, anti-oxidants, enzymes and a lot of other goodness. Eating enough fruits and vegetables can reduce your risk of developing cancer and that is so important nowadays. But can chemical vegetables really give all that? Maybe. Maybe not. Scared or not?

Where do organic farmers get these oxymoron nutrients for organic sayur?

N is normally from fresh cow dung (actually any kind of dung also got a lot of N), And also fish meal (fish that is cooked and dried and powdered) and fish emulsion (fish that is cooked for so long that its flesh is all broken up until they get a thick soup).

P comes from soft rocks that have a lot of phosphates. You can also get it from meat and bone meal (cow bones and bits of meat from slaughter houses that are cooked and dried and powdered).

K normally comes from seaweed meal (seaweed that is cooked and dried and powdered) and ash (anything burnt down, ash from burnt sawdust also can).

Imagine what life will be like if you try to plant organic sayur without WormOrganics. So many things to get and manage. That why we are trying to teach Malaysians how to grow their own organic sayur without losing any hair lor.

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Sunlight is organic money.

Don’t understand? See demonstration below.

The above photo shows two Lady’s Finger seedlings. Roughly one week old. These two seedlings get plenty of sunlight. Their third leaf has fully formed, and the fourth leaf is on the way. Now see the photo below.

This Lady’s finger seedling is exactly the same age as the two in the photo up there, never get enough sunlight. The third leaf is still struggling. Got no fourth leaf also.

So different kan? Just because it didn’t get enough sunlight, it’s about 30% slower.

What happens when sunlight hits organic sayur? Like this:

2n CO2 + 2n H2O + photons → 2(CH2O)n + 2n O2

Haaaahhhhh. Don’t understand leh. That’s why lah. Never concentrate in Kimia class last time. Ok ok. Translation:

Carbon Dioxide + Water + Light → Carbohydrate + Oxygen

Organic sayur takes the carbohydrates and releases the oxygen (For us! Yay!).

Chlorophyll in plant cells. They use sunlight and water to make food.

So does it mean we should make sure that all our organic sayur get a lot of sunlight? Not really.

Organic sayur absorb sunlight through their leaves. When the sayur get a lot of sunlight, it means they get plenty of food. What happens? Your sayur will then try to grow the next thing: flowers.

But you want to eat sayur or flowers? Sure sayur right? So, to make your organic sayur grow a lot of leaves, plant them in a shade. As long as the sayur is getting good nutrients from their roots, they will make as many leaves as possible to capture enough sun energy to make food so that they are strong enough to make flowers which will allow them to create seeds. Then you get big big leafy sayur.

If you really think about it, organic sayur is not too different from people. If people got a lot of money and food and are comfortable, they will have mood to make babies every night! But because life is hard, people nowadays dare not get too many children and spend more time to create opportunities to look for money. But people more clever than organic sayur lah. We know how to find jalan to make money. Then at the same time, we still know how to do that ahem ahem thing every night without making babies! Huhuh…better stop the subject here…..if not, from discussing photosynthesis we start to discuss porno pulak.

Got a few other techniques you can experiment. You can position your organic sayur pots so that they get a lot of sun in the morning, but be in the shade in the afternoon. This will produce a different result compared to planting organic sayur in the shade all the time. Some sayur can feel where the sunlight is brightest, and they long long stems to try and reach sunlight, but leaves not very big lor. So if they get a lot of sun in morning, but nothing in the afternoon, they make the best of the morning by making big leaves, and put less focus on growing long stems, and also get not enough energy to make flowers and seeds.

The situation is different if you want fruits, lah. Like cili padi, or cucumber or lady’s fingers, you want to make sure that they get as much sunlight as possible because you want to eat the fruits. Your plants need A LOT of energy to make babies….the fruits.

Having said all that….use WormOrganics. The whole purpose of organicsayur.com is to help you grow your own organic sayur without losing any hair. If you play-play with the sunlight and your organic sayur project is not getting enough nutrients, IT WILL NOT WORK. Without WormOrganics, you will also have to play-play with the nutrients by yourself. If you play-play with the nutrients, haahh, this is when you will start losing hair. WormOrganics looks like soil, but it is not soil. Got some sand and grit and some snail shells also that got mixed in when we collect water hyacinth to make WormOrganics, but other than, WormOrganics is made with high quality organic matter that will steadily supply every form of nutrient that organic sayur needs at anytime they need it.

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We give you one idea ok?

1. Take an old pot.

Find the oldest pot you can. Kuali pun boleh.

2. Use something sharp and make a lot of holes at the bottom.

If aluminium pot very easy lah. If you want to poke the old kuali, you need a hammer. Don't make the holes too small or tiny bits of WormOrganics will clog them up.

3. Then wash it clean. Wipe it dry. And spray with the colour you want. To spray nicely, you don’t spray one single thick layer lah. Spray a thin layer first. Let it dry for 5 minutes, then spray another layer. About three or four layers will be great la. No need to make your first layer cover the entire surface one. If you degil and try to spray the whole pot thick-thick in one go, the paint will drip and make ugly lines on the pot. Then program rosak oredi lor.  To make it dry super fast, use your hair dryer. Drying quickly with hot air will also make the paint set firmly to the pot. I like black. So……

A very cool and unique organic sayur pot! I plan to give it to my mama as a present.

Now all you have to do is fill it up with WormOrganics and plant some seeds. Wait for about two weeks so that pretty little organic sayur seedlings come up. And you now have a fantastic gift!

The best people to receive this kind of gift is your close family members, like your brother or your sister.

First, buy a really nice pot from the shopping centre and then go to your mama house and give her the pot. Then ask her as nicely as you can for the old pot that she has been using to cook for you all. Take the pot home and turn it into an organic sayur pot.

When it’s time to go to your brother’s house, present him with the pot full of happily growing organic sayur and tell him that that is mama’s pot. So nice hor? He gets organic sayur from a pot that he used to eat from when he was still small! Some more if he leave it somewhere and watch it grow for a few more weeks before he makan, it will help him to appreciate the gift further. From experience, we also learn that watching organic sayur develop over the days can help relieve stress and give anyone a sense of accomplishment.

If your brother is not very skilled with growing things, don’t plant cauliflower seeds into mama’s pot lah. Choose something hardy like bayam or lady’s finger.

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