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How to Grow a Cabbage From Cabbage Scraps

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Experiment at Royal Green Diary  Have you ever wondered if a full Cabbage head can be grown from a cabbage Leftover or scrap? ‎Some months ago, I was in such state. ‎I wanted to carry out this experiment to clear my doubts and establish facts on this note. ‎I went to buy some potatoes from the open air market when I spotted a carefully cut portion of the head of a cabbage that had been left to dry. ‎I asked the vendor if I could take the cabbage scrap along with the potatoes I had purchased. They granted me permission but their assistant tried to play wise yet I was able to obtain this material for free. ‎ The cabbage leftover  ‎When I went home, I used wood ash to rubbed the bottom of the scrap (the part going into the soil) to prevent fungal infestation. Next I took the material and placed it directly in soil in a raised bed. ‎ The just planted Cabbage Scrap ‎After about three(3) days, I noticed some signs of new growth coming from the buds at the remains of the stem...

How To Make Fruit Salad

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Video on Making Fruit Salad: @RoyalGreenDiary  Today, I'm going to be tossing an organic fruit salad and the end result is going to blow your mind. If you ever try to make fruit salad and you always end up making a smoothie or maybe you go out there and you buy from a vendor and it tastes like water, maybe there's something that you are not doing right and you're going to learn from this video. You are going to see how I'm going to be doing it and it is going to be really organic in nature.  I heard that some fruits were in season and I decided to get some. I got this generous slice of watermelon. I got a cluster of carbide free yellow ripe bananas, sweet like sugar, yellow like Fanta. I also got some papaya fruit and it was almost the size of my head. Lastly, I got a perfectly ripe sweet pineapple fruit. I had already washed the fruit off camera as so I had to proceed to peeling and slicing.  To peel the papaya fruit, I gently place it on a plastic chopping board. Alth...

How I Started My Small Pepper Garden in Port Harcourt

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Once Upon a Gardening Time , I grew Peppers in Sacks and containers. Growing Pepper in Sacks at Home has been a very interesting Journey for me as a peasant gardener. In 2024, I decided to plant habanero pepper in my small kitchen garden, but i didn't have enough money to buy commercial seeds, so I decided to go for seeds inside a store-bought pepper fruit. I was so naive! It was my first time trying to grow a spice crop that produces fruits like pepper. I paid more attention to increasing the numbers of pepper plants as much as I could with little or no attention to space, diseases, pest and nutrient requirements. A healthy habanero pepper from RoyalGreenDiary  It was all beautiful at the initial stage but things didn't go well when the first set of the peppers went from flowering to fruiting. A lot of the plants began to wilt, some turning yellow, others having leaves that were shrinking, some having heavy discoloration e.t.c.  To me, this was very disturbing because I didn...