Subscribe Button Added

September 21, 2018

I really really wanted my blog to have this email subscription button for a long long time!  But (okay, excuses again) placing one on Blogger wasn't easy.  I had to do a lot of research.

I tried putting one before, but I couldn't make it work.  I Have tried several times without any success until I finally gave up.

Then, last September 19 (I think), our Aunt/Tita Baby asked how she could subscribe to our blog.  Unfortunately, I still do not have that subscribe button.  So I again remembered that I need to put that button on our blog.  And search for how to put it, I again did.

I finally was able to have it last September 21.  But I had to test it and to do that, I need to post something first.  Luckily, I had that post last September 23, and it worked!  At least in my email.

The first email that was included on my list was, well, my email (Google email Address).  I also included another email of mine.  Sir Chino was my first subscriber!  His was the third email on the list.  I also included my wife’s email address so I can further check if the email subscription really works.

My Gmail and my other email received the notification that PachamWorld had a new post.  But my wife's email did not receive any notification.  I haven't check with Chino yet.  I will do that later.

So I need to test some more.

Also, I want to change the content of the email that was sent.  I have to research more about that.

But for now, since it worked on two out of four emails, I am being optimistic that it is working. :-)

So, please subscribe to our mailing notification.


Thank you!

Sweet Basil For Sale!

September 23, 2018

Our first Sweet Basil customer.

Presenting Sir Chino!  Thank you very much!

He said that basil is one of the ingredients in his cucumber juice.  I remember that we also have a juice recipe that includes basil.  The Basil Lemonade.  I forgot to ask him if his recipe has lemon in it, maybe it's the same, or maybe he can put his recipe in the comment section if he has a different one.

I explained to him how I propagate these plants, and in case you also would want to know, here is the link.

I posted the picture above on our Facebook page last night (around 10:00 pm, September 22, 2018). 

And this morning, I got a few messages.

The first message was from Sir Chino, and since their place is near ours, I delivered his order today.

I will be delivering some more tomorrow.

Thank you very much for the orders!

Siling Pangsigang - Update #4

September 03, 2018

Made my first delivery!

Two pieces of Siling Pangsigang plants (fruit-bearing already) sold!

First costumer/buyer Miss Selena! (Thank you!)

I can only bring two pieces per day and Miss Selena bought four, so, I delivered the first batch on September 03 (Monday) and the rest the following day.

Miss Lerma and Miss Memie also bought a plant each, which I delivered last September 05.

All of them are my office mates.

My wife also posted this on Facebook, and there were many who inquired and wanted to visit us, but unfortunately for us, we only had six pieces available at that time.  The other plants haven't fruited yet.  I hope that they would soon.

I still have some pending orders at the moment, and these are just from my office mates.  I also have some friends who told me to contact them once I have some already available for sale.

(This picture was taken September 18, 2018)

I have three pieces available now and I would be delivering soon.

Just a side Note:

Prices of Sili in the Philippines today are rising.  They said that Siling Labuyo or the Red Chili is now more than Php1,000.00 per kilo, this used to be only around Php50.00.  I really am not aware, and I never really bothered with what had caused this.  Maybe the inflation, maybe the people in the government, or the charter change or maybe even climate change :-)  But that is really ridiculously high.

Mushroom (The Beginning)

September 01, 2018

Finally!

We will be starting our mushroom farm!

Way back in 2012 my brother and I attended a seminar about mushroom farming.

In that seminar, all who attended were each given a certificate and a fruiting bag (like the picture above).  

My brother (Eldeen), was able to make this fruiting bag.  He took a little piece of the mushroom that our fruiting bag produced and cultured it in agar.  

Agar is the gelatine-like substance that scientist use to culture bacteria.  Maybe you would remember using that in your high school science class.

When the agar was fully colonized, he divided it and put a piece in each bottle that contains sorghum.

Sorghum is a kind of grain, and this is the grain we use here in the Philippines for mushroom production.

Then when the bottles were fully colonized, again, he divided the content to the fruiting bags that he made.

I cannot remember how many he was able to harvest from those fruiting bags.  But he said that some of the bags had some worms, and he needed to dispose of those at once.  That meant that he was not able to sterilize the bags correctly.  I think he steemed those bags for five hours, but it should be at least eight hours (according to a new source). 

Today, I went to Silang Cavite, on the mushroom farm of Miss Divine Camama and got us 100 pieces of fruiting bags.

Hopefully, we will be able to harvest many from these bags and also make more fruiting bags.