If you want for example your planted corn or any crop to have a particular taste you can determine it? How?
By nourishing the soil you will plant/already planted the crop(s) in with what will give it desired taste/nutrients.
But this will be better achieved if you plant in containers - sacks, buckets, basins etc.
For instance some days ago I got this over-ripe pawpaw - no doubt still extremely sweet but also somewhat decaying . It was still edible but would likely upset the stomach if eaten.
If you have a garden, such should not be wasted - if you use such sweet over-ripe fruits to manure some crops constantly you will most likely get such sweet taste if whatever you manure with is retained in that soil for a long time.
Hence the need to do this with soil in containers. So I have been manuring the few maize plants I have in the garden with over-ripe decaying fruits I get in addition to other kitchen wastes.
I also manure the pineapple plant with sweet fruit remnants. I hope to manure the rounded tomatoes if they decide to wake up.
The snake (paste) tomatoes do not really need any support- that is advantage of using pure-bred seeds that have never been treated with chemicals.
I would have manured the pepper plant but I don't want my pepper to be sweet but hot and spicy- so better to manure pepper with remnants like ginger, tumeric- please ensure these dry well before using to manure - when I used the peels of fresh ginger to manure pepper plants- the plants almost died but made come -back and one of the plants have fruited relatively well - it sure helped a lot during the period of naira scarcity - by the way is naira is now available but still being sold. N5, 000 is sold for N500 to N1000.
Back to garden matters jare - If you plant crops directly into the ground, underground and/or surface water with all kinds of substances which may or may not be nutrients also move from different locations in/on the soil to other locations.
So just as what some of what you use in manuring or fertilising your soil run off to other locations, surface or underground water bring different elements to your location.
Also the soil in containers is not affected by erosion so it would retain most of the nutrients in it not taken up by the plants. Uuummm... I am just wondering what will happen if I manure the bitterleaf plant(s) with over-ripe fruits - can there be anything like Sweet bitterleaf? We can try it.
I would have loved to try it but I don't have that much unwanted fruits - not even enough for the crops I like using the over-ripe fruits to manure.
Wish there are nearby big fruits market - I hear that there are heaps and heaps of wasted fruits at such markets - it is a sad reality that unsold fruits are often disposed - but that is Organic Fertlizer that will sweeten your crops if you use consistently. If you can get, please do - if you want healthy foodstuffs, your best bet is to manure with something edible- I.e. even though what you manure with may not be something you will normally eat, it should be something that is not actually poisonous if you taste it.
So you understand why chemicals are not good for fertilizing soil - would you like to taste chemicals?
By the way, I have continued re-bagging soil in my mini-garden - wish I could lay hold of large quantities of such over-ripe fruits to manure. Thankfully most of the soil are still nutrient dense from several months of manuring.
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