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San Jose City,Nueva Ecija
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Ma’am Herminia Felimon
Submitted to:

Macky Ross Macabante

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October 21, 2022

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Introduction:

Urban gardening is the practice of growing plants in an urban environment. You may be
surprised to know that urban gardening has a positive impact on the economy, the environment
and food security. If you live in a big city, urban gardeners are doing their work all around you.
The benefits to impoverished communities are plentiful: Urban gardening takes away
environmental strain. Because overpopulation places so much stress on the natural environment,
including agriculture and water, small-scale urban gardening projects can reduce the
environmental harm of mass production.

In this article I will teach you on planting pechay procedure with easy to follow steps. Pechay
vegetable is easy to grow when it comes to caring because it doesn't need much time and effort.
And when it comes to care and less time accommodation before you can harvest your crops.
There are tools needed in planting but this tools will just found in our house. After you plant and
care, then it's time for you to harvest more or less than a month or approximately 45 days.

Pechay, scientifically known as Brassica rapa is a popular vegetable in the Philippines. Also
known as snow cabbage, Chinese chard or Chinese white cabbage, is consumed both as raw and
cooked. Ideally, it is eaten raw to prevent possible loss of its nutritional value when heated. It is
an excellent source of income and a hobby even for limited space adopting the very popular
vertical gardening with the use of recycled containers as potting media. Organic farming
produces nutrient rich, fertile soil which nourishes the plants. Keeping chemicals off the land
protects water quality and wild life. It's also about practicing good animal welfare where
everything from breeding, rearing and handling, up to feeding of animals is strictly regulated
thus implementing a free range lifestyle. The Philippines, through Republic Act 10068 aims to
strengthen the state’s policy to promote, propagate, develop further and implement the practice
of organic agriculture. Farming communities are hoped to ensure and cumulatively condition and
enrich the fertility of the soil, increase farm productivity, reduce pollution and destruction of the
environment, prevent depletion of natural resources and protect the health of the
farmers, and of the general public.
Experience and Learning Acquired:

Urban gardening reduces carbon footprints by reducing carbon emissions during the
transportation of food, vegetables, and fruits from other regions or countries. It also relieves the
farms where agriculture was traditionally practiced, freeing the land for natural regeneration. A
great way to teach ecological literacy and respect for the Earth, along with important food
production skills, is to help students grow a garden. So get your hands dirty, grow something
both healthy and delicious, and teach students what might end up being the most important thing
we have ever learn.

Here are 7 important life lessons I have learned from gardening:

 Growth takes time.
 Nature is therapeutic.
 Learn, then learn some more.
 You need the right environment to thrive.
 Nourishment should be continuous.
 Never ever give up.
 Victories don't come by accident.
My Documentation:

Week 1

1. Find Capable to Plant Location

Find a place where you can able to plant the vegetable.
It doesn't need much space but look for a place where the soil is capable for planting with more
nutrients content.
It will grow faster and better when there's enough nutrients content in that place.
It should also hit by sunlight for more productive result.

 Preparing the soil

 Clean the area to be prepare. Remove grasses to be able no competition will happen to
the nutrients on the soil. Remove (unnecessary things like) rocks, plastics, woods, or any
unnecessary things that will not needed. Cultivate the soil with the use of grab hoe, and
level it after with the use of rake.
 After preparing the soil for planting, you can now sprinkle the seeds on the soil then it
can be covered with chaff or rice hall. As what you can see in the picture.
Week 3

 We can see that the seeds we have scattered on the soil are already growing. So let us
continue to water it every day. Transplanting is better to this kind of vegetable.
  When it started to grow and it have enough leaves then that's the time we can now trans
plant it. But for me, ill just leave them here.

Week 4

 Apply Fertilizer
 In order to grow it well and better yields, we need to apply some fertilizer.
  What we need to do is to gather (organic material like) leaves, grasses, left over foods or
any organic material and put it on a hole (compost pit is called) and let it to decay.
 When it's totally decay you can now put it on the soil and it will support nutrient's that
the vegetable needed.

Week 5

 Put Fence
  Predators will destroy our crops our plants, so in order to not it happen we will start to
put fence.
 Leaves are always target and it will prevent if their a barriers in our plants.
 In this way we can protect our garden from those animals that will break, and destroy our
crops. It's our care to our garden.

Week 6
  Water the Plants Everyday
The vegetables need water and it will grow faster when the soil is always moist.
Take care and observe the grow of the plant and after 45 days approximately you can now
harvest the vegetable.
How to grow pechay plant is easy but we need to take care for a good production.
Hope you learn on planting pechay procedure, just follow the easy simple steps.
Week 7
 Harvesting the Pechay Leaves
 There are two options for harvesting pechay. The first option is to cut only the mature
leaves around 1 to 2 inches from the root base. The plant will grow new leaves which can
be harvested again after a few weeks. The second option is to pull out the entire plant
from the soil.
Conclusion
Pechay is a vegetable plant with green leafy leaves, small in size, have white stalk of the
leaves and usually called bok choy. This vegetable grows in tropical country. It need
more sunlight and water in order to grow. This also grows well in sandy soil, and also in
loam soil. That is the characteristic of this vegetable.Pechay has many soft, thin, light
green, broad to oblong ovate leaves. These are arrange spirally and spreading. Pechay are
favorites by most Oriental people for it is always available in the market anytime of the
year. It is also an important Constituents of Filipino food such as
“puchero” and “nilaga”. It is a green leafy vegetable rich in calcium and
other essential nutrients.

Pechays originated from China, inhabiting a vast amount of the land. It has been
introduced to Europe and is farmed for people who love the rich bitterness of this plant.
There are some who believe that pechay originated from Africa but pechay is from
China, that’s for sure. In some places in Southern Europe, pechay has been introduced
from its native range, probably discarded by farms that stopped producing them. They
have also been introduced toother continents including North and South America. Since
its rich in vitamins, many of the Filipinos cultivate it and often sell it for a reasonable
price. Pechays are valued to many people as a food, though some people hate them due to
their bitterness. However, they are of great value because they provide vitamins to those
who can’t afford to buy vitamins (mostly Filipinos). This plant has no negative effects on
people who eat it, except for the bitterness (for some people). How they cook the pechay
is that, first they rinse them, letting the dirt and sand wash away, then they steam it with
rice, and beef, making a food called “tapa.” This specie now is considered as “The
Fountain of Vitamin” in the Philippines due to the vitamins that are found in this specie.
This specie may be the most dominant plant that is being sold in markets in Philippines