Urban Gardening and Soil Composting for Small Homes in the Philippine Setting
A. Banag, A. Cortenias, R. Dagdagan, A. De Mesa, S. Del Rosario, M. Gadong, C. Javier
Quantitative Research, 2020
Abstract
With the threat of the new coronavirus, people are forced to stay at home. Along with this is the environmental problem is global warming that we have long been facing. To solve this, the group aims to show how urban gardening can be a solution through their research entitled, "Urban Gardening and Soil Composting for Small Homes in the Philippine Setting". With this, they pondered if it's possible to use a compost made up of household materials and wastes as an alternative soil for urban gardening.
Urban gardening is the optimum alternative for small homes in the Philippines in taking part in saving the environment. Through this research, they aim to involve the urban poor communities to have their own urban gardening in their homes. Through this, they can eliminate “food deserts” by recycling their wastes into compost to help lessen the garbage patches in our lands.
For this research, the group divided the task into two parts - optimum alternative compost making and urban garden design proposal. The first is to collect kitchen wastes and normal potting soil into an ice cream tub, adding small amounts of shredded paper to absorb excess moisture from the compost, and allowing it to decompose at different decomposition times. After the decomposition, they transferred a scoop of it into a half 295mL soda bottle and planted 5 monggo seeds. Compared to the normal potting soil, they observed that the top 2 best alternative composts were set-ups D and E with vegetable and fruit peelings, and eggshells with a small amount of soil. On the other hand, the set-ups F and G that have dog feces, have shown a 0% success rate with no signs of growth in all trials. While Set-ups B and C had unstable results for most trials.
With this, the group came up with proposals to incorporate their environmental-friendly urban garden designs by creating designs for different places in their homes. With this, the group accepts their hypothesis that by finding the optimum alternative compost-soil, everyone can have a small garden that benefits them in the long run.
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