Harvest a Plenty

I was clearing the undergrowth around the oil palm tree at Zone D yesterday afternoon. Look at what I have uncovered for the picking. There was a clump of wild bananas, a pandan clump, various heliconias species and towards the right of the picture above is our popular local herb called the kunyit, scientifically referred to as curcuma domestica.

In my planting design , the final harvest will be the oil palm fruits. In the interim period , bananas can be planted and herbs for medicinal and culinary purposes. The tiny space of slope is planted with a variety of plants to produce diversified harvest at different timing. There is thus optimisation of land use longitudinally and latitudinal.