Lets start at the very beginning,
soundsayurA 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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