Container Urban Gardening are growing crops in portable and modular plantars,

in settings where agricultural land spaces are available

URBAN GARDEN DEMONSTARTION PROJECT is the plan of the cultivation of
vegetables, fruits, aromatic plants or medicinal herbs, among other things, outside
or in enclosed spaces on a domestic scale. Urban demonstration project is similar
to urban container gardening. The difference is urban container gardening are
from reused bottles
Advantages of Container Urban Disadvantages
gardening and Urban Garden
Demonstration project
 The ability to plant anywhere  Tends to dry out plants easily
 Portable  Can’t grow large vegetables
 Allows to grow different plants  Plants are prone to die from cold
with different soil needs and lack of water
 Almost no weeding  Limits the growth of a plant
 Do not need heavy gardening tools  Plants will not get the beneficial
 Plants are protected from pests manure from earthworms and
and diseases other creatures
 Improve air quality indoors  Urban agriculture can lead to noise
 Within arms’ Reach and smells, as well as endangering
 Can be harvested within weeks human health and the environment
 Increased soil yields if pesticides and organic fertilizers
 Ideal for growing vegetables leach into water sources.
 Fairer and more sustainable
 Urban vegetable gardens reduce
the number of intermediaries and
result in savings on transport,
packaging and storage. This
ensures the horticulturists earn
more and pollute less.
 They generate employment
 They improve food and
environmental quality
 Urban agriculture provides the
population with fresh food,
constructs green zones, recycles
municipal waste and strengthens
cities against climate change.
Container Urban Gardening at BUCAF is located besides the crop science building.
It is funded by the DOST and agribusiness part of the project cost and return in
relation with container gardening but there is no research on how much space can
be consumed by a specific number of family numbers. Recycled plastic
bottles/containers are used. Instead of synthetic fertilizer, organic fertilizer made
from animal manure is used instead.
Urban Gardening Demonstration project is located meters away from crop
science building and besides of Container Urban gardening. It is a motor pool
years ago and due to typhoon, the staffs of BUCAF transforms it into Urban
Gardening demonstration project. There are significant plants at this project.
Marigold that drives out/repel insects, caballero that traps insects/helps in
pollination(pollinates squash, watermelon) and many flowering plants. Has
attractants (attracts insects and transfers to squash) cucurbit (a) family.
Description of Container Urban Gardening and Urban Gardening Demonstration
Project in BUCAF:
The Container Urban Gardening and Urban Gardening Demonstration project has
zero slope. Let us assume that the elevation of BUCAF is 554 ft. (above sea level).
There is no irrigation system but they water the plants three times a day when
very dry and no drainage system. It is rectangular shape and approximately 30
square meters. The crops/vegetables in Container Urban Gardening that is
planted are Tomatoes, cucumber, sweet pepper, and pechay while in Urban
gardening Demonstration Project is Squash, watermelon, and cucumber. No
aquatic/inland fish resources and no animal production project and resources. The
location is lowland the container gardening is portable.
PAG-ASA(Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Service
Administration) is the Philippine national institution dedicated to provide flood
and typhoon warnings, public weather forecasts and advisories, meteorological,
astronomical, climatological, and other specialized information and services
primarily for the protection of life and property and in support of economic,
productivity and sustainable development. The government agency was created
on December 8, 1972 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 78 reorganizing the
Philippine Weather Bureau into PAGASA.
The major services provided by PAGASA include the provision of weather
forecasts and tropical cyclone warnings, flood bulletins and advisories,
hydrological, climatological and farm weather forecasts. It is part of
Memorandum agreement to help communities by providing weather data –
informs farmers about weather condition/updates
There are two wind vane with propeller in PAG-ASA BUCAF. It is an instrument
used to determine the wind. An instrument for the measurement of both
horizontal wind speed and direction, consisting of a propeller anemometer
mounted on the windward end of a wind vane. The wind vane serves the dual
purposes of measuring wind direction and aligning the propeller axis in the
direction of the wind.
(Example of wind vane with propeller)
NURSERY Production Project
- A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired
size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry or
conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries,
which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries, which sell only to
businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and
private nurseries, which supply the needs of institutions or private estates.
Some will also work in plant breeding.

Advantages of Nursery Management

Crop grown by nursery raising is quite early and fetch higher price in the
market. So economically more profitable. There is saving of land and labour
as main field will be occupied by the crop for lesser duration. Hence
intensive crop rotation can be followed.

Plant propagation is the process of creating new plants. There are two types
of propagation: sexual and asexual. Sexual reproduction is the union of the
pollen and egg, drawing from the genes of two parents to create a new,
third individual. Sexual propagation involves the floral parts of a plant.
Asexual propagation involves taking a part of one parent plant and causing
it to regenerate itself into a new plant. The resulting new plant is genetically
identical its parent. Asexual propagation involves the vegetative parts of a
plant: stems, roots, or leaves.

The advantages of sexual propagation are that it may be cheaper and

quicker than other methods; it may be the only way to obtain new varieties
and hybrid vigor; in certain species, it is the only viable method for
propagation; and it is a way to avoid transmission of certain diseases.
Asexual propagation has advantages, too. It may be easier and faster in
some species; it may be the only way to perpetuate some cultivars; and it
bypasses the juvenile characteristics of certain species.
Description of Nursery production project in BUCAF
Nursery production project is zero percent slope and 554 ft. Elevation
(above sea level). There is no irrigation and drainage system. Rectangular in
shape and approximately 16m × 6m(more or less 700 square meters).
Asexually reproducted plant (produced by its parts Not by seeds). Mother
plant is the “perfect plant”, the basis for Propagated plants. Plants in the
nursery are at least 12-15 inches high – the baby plants have their own
pots. Sold for 50 pesos. Plants are mangoes, pili, japanese hue, durian,
Cacao and calamansi. The process of sexual and asexual production is
conducted here. Plastic serves as protection and from heat for transmission
(anti dehydration). Propagated plant is at least 7m high pili trees (1 male,
the rest are female). 7-8 years (seed to tree) but it becomes short after
asexually propagated plants (3-4 years). Pili trees are endemic. It is lowland
and the farm implements are shovel, fork and many more.