Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Soursop
2nd trimming for my soursop! Hope to fatten up the main trunk before letting it branch out... In any case, this plot is just TOO SMALL for it to grow! Sigh
Monday, September 22, 2014
Roselles
They looked so beautiful in bright red and in a tightly knit row! Time to harvest but I simply have no TIME!
Cosmos - Seeds!
Hoping new cosmos will sprout on its own and filled up the garden with lovely orangey cosmos!
Banana Trees
My 2 little growing banana trees seem to be growing better after I added enzyme into the watering!
Going to chop down the tree in the foreground to make space for my growing bananas!!
Friday, September 19, 2014
Japanese Cucumber Trellis
My half done Japanese Cucumber Trellis!! I didn't have enough tying materials to finish it up this morning!
Thursday, September 18, 2014
DIY Compost Bin
I have been composting kitchen garbage for months without much success. The end product is usually compost that is not broken down completely and wet and smelly!! So decided to redo my compost bin and see if this is going to make it work!
Will need to drill some holes on the small bin so that the water will drain out to the bigger container! This combination only cost me $14.60!! Cheap! The commercial compost bin will cost me at least $60! Will update on this!! Hoping for success!!
Guava
Plenty of guava seedlings to give away but not many takers! Guess I will eventually discard them! so sayang
I kept 2 of them, which I think its enough as I have limited gardening space!! LOL
Months ago, I bought a pot of guava from the farm and it is not doing well at all. Not much growth - wonder what nutrients it needs!
Bittergourd
Little bittergourd growing steadily.
Lotsa male flowers, which is a beautiful sight!
GCS commented that bittergourd needs chicken dung and bonemeal to grow well! So bought the following from NTUC today. Hoping that I will have more than 1 bittergourd this time round!!
Japanese Cucumber
Extending its first tendrils!! I need to build a trellis for it to climb soon!
It is currently sharing the same pot as my fig!
Cosmos!
The seeds were brought back from an eco farm in Kahang, Malaysia. Took 3 months from seeds to flowers!! Wow, such a nice colourful addition to my edible plots!
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Chiku
My very productive chiku tree!! Bearing fruits for me from the first day that I brought it home till today!! My best garden buy so far!! My only gripe - the fruit is way too small!!
Curry Leave Seedling
Plenty sprouted on its own in the garden - mostly pulled away and discarded as there are just too many curry leave plants in the garden - my crazy neighbour planted so many and hardly pluck the leaves to use!! He is fetish about curry leaves!!! LOL ... Decided to keep this one for giveaway! There is another one in the garden somewhere but I couldn't locate it this morning!
Chicken Dung 'Soup'
Decided to try the chicken dung 'soup' suggested by my estate gardener and also someone which I can't recall who now!!! Oh dear, getting old! Let the chicken dung steep in some water and then used the water to water the plants - discard the remainder of the chicken dung. Of course, so sayang to throw away the remainder so decided to just throw them into my garden soil too! :-)
Winged Beans - Seeds for Posterity
I have many pods of winged beans which has grown too old to be picked so keeping all for seeds! I have at least 5-6 such pods!! Plenty of seeds to keep and giveaway!
Monday, September 15, 2014
Ma Ni Cai - Rootings
I left a bunch of Ma Ni Cai cuttings in a can of water for about 1 week as I couldn't decide where to grow them. Surprised to find that most of them have rooted! Cute little roots!
Turnip!
Removed 1 of my turnip that wasn't growing too well! Surprised to find an odd shape turnip growing!! LOL .. looks like a spaceship!
Mango Seedling
Removed my mango seedling from the ground and repot it to a small pot for giveaway. Will offer it to the facebookers@Green Culture Group.
Little Bittergourd
Cute little bittergourd... Didn't see it forming! My record is always 1 bittergourd per vine!! Wonder how to grow many gourds in 1 vine!!
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Big Chilli - Another success!
Sound 2 more little Big Chilli growing today!! Seems that they have finally overcome the war with the pests and starting to grow strong now!
Maiden Passion Fruit!
This is the first passion fruit of my last plot of passion fruit vine! Hand pollinated this one!
Lime
My little lime growing slowly too. There are at least 10 of them! What a bountiful harvest in a couple of months' time!
Vegetable Seedlings
Growing very slowly!
Caixin (Variety 1)
Caixin (Variety 2)
Kailan
Purple Bayam
This is the batch of purple bayam that grew on its old and I have left it on their own to grow too! An ex plot of purple bayam.. Somehow if I leave it on its own device, they seem to grow faster!
Mak Choi
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