How To Plant Your Own Organic Sayur
Before that, let’s talk about Malaysians for a while. We are a proud race. We are very practical, down-to-earth, and straight-to-the-point and we don’t play-play.
If Malaysians try to learn about planting organic sayur in the house from the Internet, sooner or later they will find the Organic Gardening Techniques pdf file from the University of Missouri-Columbia. It says that one way to start organic gardening is to use “50lb to 100lb undried cattle manure”.
Undried cattle manure? Fresh cow dung kut?
….this people ah….
Dei….fresh cow dung say fresh cow dung lah. What undried cattle manure?
So ok we ask you now. How to find so much fresh cow dung?
Really must bring cow dung to my house ah?
….not yet start also busuk already….
….aiyoh kesian my neighbour….
….how lah like that aiyoh….cow dung….
Cannot cannot cannot. There must be a better way.
The Better Way
Correct correct correct. Got better way. Bring cow dung to my house…..gila meh?
Ok lah we tell you who we really are. We are earthworm farmers. You know cacing? We got a lot oh.
We feed the cacing with a lot of water hyacinth. This is a kind of wild floating vegetable that grows on lakes.
Hyacinth collection operations by the lake.
We also mix quite a lot of chicken dung with water hyacinth. But don’t worry lah. We won’t send the lorry of fresh chicken dung to your house one. It’s for the worms to eat. Nothing stays the same. And after the worms have eaten it up, the dung turns to soil.
8.5 tons of fresh chicken dung.
At first, the mix is very, very smelly. And smoking hot! The heat comes from a thermophilic process done by anaerobic bacteria. The bacteria will whack the mix of dung and water hyacinth very happily. Anaerobic bacteria is important. As living things, they are different from us. They breathe in carbon dioxide. And they breathe out oxygen! They take the carbon from carbon dioxide and spit out the oxygen (For us! Haha!) and mix the carbon with the crazy amounts of nitrogen and hydrogen and etc that is inside the mix of water hyacinth and dung to make their food. This micro kitchen process is what causes the heat. Only thing is that their kitchen is very smelly one, so don’t simply try this at home, unless you don’t mind the smell.
Our worm farm
Don't do this at home!! Smelly smelly! At first, it all looks like this. If the picture looks a bit steamy to you, don't worry. Got nothing wrong with your eyes. Really got steam coming out of the stuff one. It's very hot. It's composting and breaking down!
In a very short while, nearly all of the dung and much of the water hyacinth plus whatever other types of plant matter that got mixed in will be broken down. And eventually, there is no more carbon dioxide inside the mix. Then the heat cools down. Nearly all the anaerobic bacteria dies and the mix is full of oxygen.
And our earthworms rush in.
By the time the earthworms are full until they cannot move, everything looks different. People call it vermicompost. Vermi is Latin for cacing. There is no more dung. Just a kind of rich, black soil called humus. The plant matter doesn’t break down as fast as the dung so you still see some. But sooner or later, even the plant matter also will be fully gone, and people will call it mature earthworm castings.
We call our vermicompost WormOrganics, because the amount of organic matter, micro-organic life, and earthworms in WormOrganics are the highest that nature can give. Not a spoon full of earth or soil is added into WormOrganics. Yah. You see some bits of sand and grit. You will probably see some snail shells too. Those came along while we were collecting wild water hyacinth. We don’t make WormOrganics. We just provide the place and the materials and Mother Nature comes in and have party.
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Great work…man!!!should share n care!!!how about printing leaflets pertaining to worm compost and its availalbilty???
Thank you, Alice.
Actually, ah, the making of really good worm compost is a smelly process. I once visited a bunch of fellas who tried to start a worm bin using urban mindsets. So 99% of their compost material is dried leaves. Mati lah the worms.
No lah. I think, think long time di. No point teaching the making of worm compost. In fact, our worm farm is off limits to all visitors, in order to protect our kung fu.
Much more rewarding to plant organic sayur for people.