What is backyard vegetable gardening?

Backyard vegetable gardening, or a backyard

garden for short, refers to a home garden that provides your family with fresh vegetables daily.
Plus, it benefits me, my family, and the environment. It can improve our health by providing us
with healthy organic vegetables, saving money on food, being eco-friendly, providing outdoor
exercise, relieving stress, significantly reducing waste to save our planet and more. As I
mentioned above, we can grow vegetables in our backyard with many benefits, so I choose
backyard vegetable gardening. Growing plants supports life on Earth in many ways. They release
oxygen into the atmosphere, absorb carbon dioxide, provide habitat and food for wildlife and
humans, and regulate the water cycle. In addition, I chose backyard vegetable gardening because
I have a lot of plantitas, especially my neighbor Tita, where every day when I’m passing by, I
always see her plants that are pleasing to the eyes.

As a first-timer in planting, except in pre-school where we plant mongo, I find it difficult

where I had replanted pechays many times. On my first try, I chose spring onions, but it didn’t
go well because of the lack of sunlight, and they eventually died. After that, my classmates
suggested that pechays need at least 30 days to harvest. When I researched it, they said it was
easy to grow, but it was the other way for me. The first problem I had when growing pechay was
that it lacked sunlight and had a long pale stem. For my second and third try, it also didn’t go
well because I used the rectangular pot, and every morning and afternoon, I carried it back and
forth to give it sunshine, and in one day, I forgot to bring it back to the shade so, it suffers from
too much sun, and I think that's why it died. For the fourth time, it started fine because I used the
soil recommended by my Tita. It turned out to be an effective soil because I used different soils
simultaneously in separate containers, and the soil my tita suggested had healthier pechays.
While I was hoping it would continue to thrive, but one day, my mom put a lot of fertilizer, and
it touched the leaves of the pechays. After that, the leaves started slowly creasing all over the
place, and my pechays died for the fourth time. After all the trial and error, for the fifth try, it
came out strong and healthy up until now. As you can see in my last photo in my documentation,
I had planted a lot of pechays in different containers so that I have lots of reserves in case
something terrible happens again. When I experienced this, I never lost interest in it and
continued to plant with my Tita's help.

I have learned a lot from this event, and it benefited me greatly. I have learned that some
of the plants are sensitive or maselan, so we need to take care of them thoroughly, and I always
check my plants all the time. In addition, I learned that soil has an effect on planting because I
used three different types of soil at the same time in separate containers, and it turned out that
one of them made my pechays healthier. Also, my Tita taught me a suggestion to poke a stick or
knife deep into the soil around the pechays a few times each morning before watering. This
method is called soil aeration, which is the phenomenon of rapid exchange of oxygen and carbon
dioxide between the soil pore space and the atmosphere, to prevent the deficiency of oxygen
and/or carbon dioxide in the soil air.
Furthermore, I recycled beer cases, some cans, and plastic bottles into plant containers to save
money and help the environment. To sum up, after my misfortune, I have never lost hope and
will continue to move forward to achieve my goals and will surpass my struggles. Lastly, we
need to take care of our plants and grow more so that they can make a massive contribution to
our environment in our tiny ways until it's too late.