Natural weed control in my house

I use scythe to cut the weeds in my house compound. Instead of hire people to cut it off. Yes, it is a slow work pace to clean the area and time consuming. But,  I took it as part of exercise.

However, do remember to put a working gear while working. Such as working glove. In order to protect your hand from blister. A long sleeve tshirt to protect your arm from scratches of the weed or etc. A long pants and working boots to protect your feet from scratches and bites. Better safe than sorry. Plus, covering your skin also helps from extra sunshine on your delicate skin😆

I normally make sure my cats to be around while I am doing the weed cleaning work. For them to look out for me. And to accompany me and play with me during my break😅

By cleaning the weed myself, I could select part that I need to cut. Since few of the wild plants that grow themselves is good for traditional medical usage. Sometimes there are fruit plants grow from birds drops. At this moment, there are gooseberry plant that grow healthy in my compound. Where it has good traditional medical value and also could serve as good topping in cakes or as jam.

I can't use weed killer since my cats always play around the house compound during their cage cleaning time. My cats also love to munch on few grass that grow there. Where sometimes I do cut the grass and put in the cat cage for them to nibble on it each time they're not out from the cage.

I also wanted organic output from the plants that I grow in order to have a better lifestyle. Every now and then I could just pluck, wash and directly eat the leaves of plants that I grow without worries.

I do leave some of the weed grow on as they help to break and fertilized the ground. As the ground in my house compound compose pretty much stone in it. Which makes my hand ache a lot each time the shovel hit on the stone in the ground.

Till then, have a good time gardening.

My awareness on gardening for self consumption

When I am working in KL in 2010, I start to grow betel plant (pokok sirih) in a polybag. Which I normally give to one of the receptionist in my workplace since she is using it.

Now I am targeting to have an output from my garden that could sustain me and my cats daily consumption. Since I have land size 10 feet in my house compound. Nowadays I am taking care of 10 cats and it is much cheaper to grow all ingredients at home. This could reduce cost and time to prepare the food. Where I do find it is time consuming to just to go out to buy the ingredients since my current house is around 5 km from the nearest mart.

There are few vegetables than can be consumed directly without need to cook. Such as Centella Asiatica (pokok pegaga), Winged Bean (pokok kacang botol) and etc. This would come in handy at time when I am in time constraint or sick.
I also prefer to use organic fertilizer than chemical for the vegetables. Since I grow them myself.

At this moment, everything is unorganized since it is still in arrangement process.
Hopefully I could finish my small garden in more organized condition before end year 2016.