Late January and early February 2019 are exciting months for me to see the flowers from fruit trees that I started planting on the excavated poor and acidic soil in 2016. Over two years, my two mango trees started fruiting and this is their third flowering period for both trees.  They were the only 2 out of my trial and error 10 fruit trees that survived on the 40 x 40 meter plot since the soil was very acidic and had little organic matter.  Nonetheless, cow dung and chicken dung were used as the nitrogen source for soil microbiome to multiply and change micro-environment in the soil to be suitable for plant roots.  Mulching practice to retain moisture in the soil beneath the trees were also implemented during 2017 – 2018 since I have been relied on rain-fed water only.

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