Sunday, October 23, 2016
If you want bees, plant this!
Yup, this is from experience!! :-) Bees love them!
But only those single petals!
Herbal Tea Mix
All from my garden!! Brewed this concoction as herbal tea weekly! Taste great! Added in a green apple which is not home grown of course!
From left to right : pandan leave, guava leave, mulberry leave & lemongrass
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Good To Be Back Again!
LOL.... it has been a long time ago since I last updated my blog!! Lazy me, hope to get back on track again.... :-)
This portulaca grew on its own. The circumference of the flower petal is at least twice that of the usual variety that I have! So great that it has decided to make its home in one of my pot!!! They are so beautiful to look at!!
Pi Pa
This is a pi pa plant that I got from a gardening contest! Growing steadily. Not sure if it will fruit but the leaves are medicinal!
Rosemary
Sole surviving rosemary! Will buy rosemary from the supermarket and try growing again...! This is definitely not enough for me to start picking for cooking!!
Fig
My one and only fig plant that is producing fig for me..... Not sure why this is producing fruit! I just couldn't get the others to do the same...
Gifted Plant
Someone gifted me with this plant - I am not sure what is the name but they produce cute little flowers.
Blue Pea Butterfly
My multi petal blue pea butterfly is blooming! They look more pretty than the single petal ones and the colour is deeper too.
Can't wait to collect more seeds so that I can grow more of them. But somehow the flowers dropped off :-(
The single petal one:
Kailan
Neighbour's uncle gave me some stem cut Kailan to grow. Not exactly a fan of kailan :-) But didn't know they can be grown via stem cutting!
Stevia
My pot of stem cut Stevia - doing ok for now. I hope they bushed up so that I can start another pot of them!
Star Fruit - Blooms and Little Star Fruitlets
Mass flowering of my star fruit plant! I got at least 20 star fruitlets! Looking forward to bountiful harvest!
Monday, August 29, 2016
Pumpkin
Another vine of my pumpkin plant producing female flower! I hope it is successful because I did not really get to pollinate it myself. There isn't a male flower in the same vine. I had to pluck a male from my neighbour's vine. But by the time I wanted to pollinate, the flower had closed?! Hmmm
UREA and My Potted Small Lime
Well, I applied UREA a couple of times to ALL of my lime plants (big and small limes).... ONLY this pot of small limes are flowering and fruiting....
Self Watering Container
Beans consume a lot of water and under such intense heat these days, my potted beans drenched out very fast. So I decided to try out self watering container. I poke tiny holes (2 of them) at the bottom of the bottle. Initially I poke only 1 hole and capped the top. The next day, I realised that no water is getting out of the hole!! So decided to poke another tiny hole today... But no water dripped out again... Then I realised it is the cap of the bottle! Haha... I adjusted the screw cap until little drips of water come out of the bottle. Shall see if it works tomorrow!
Banana Harvest
Singlehandedly harvested my big bunch of bananas!! What a task! The total weight was perhaps 10kg?????
A total of 8 fans of them .....
And this is the 2nd largest fan of all....
It was not easy to divide them up! Carrying them in 1 go is impossible!! LOL.... Distributed them to my estate cleaners, neighbours and mommy! Keeping a small bunch for myself.....
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Big Red Chilli
My biggest haul of big red chillies!
From my personal experience in growing big red chillies, I find they thrive well with mulching and chicken poo!
Pumpkin Vine
I think pumpkin vine (or in fact perhaps any other vines) can be grown via stem cutting! Accidental discovery! This pumpkin vine that I have that gave me 2 pumpkins so far, the main stem (where the seed sprouted from) died off. However, there is an offshoot of the main vine that seems to have rooted itself and it is producing more vines out of its own! I spotted a female flower growing and I hope it will flower!
Grafting - Failure!
My first grafting experiment failed big time! :-( .... Not sure of reason.. Gotta try again!
Passion Vine - Seed to Fruit
It takes about 9 months from seed to fruit! Always happy when I see the first fruit setting!
Cut Flowers - Hibiscus
My hibiscus is growing verociously! Decided to cut a few stalks and used as cut flowers at home! Beautiful!
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Multi Colours - Periwinkle
Big Chilli
I seem to notice that my Big Chilli plants love chicken poo! Every time I put in some chicken poo, it will sprout new leaves and flower buds.
Stem Cut Rose
I trimmed the mother Rose plant and plonked the stalks into a pot of soil. Remained dormant for weeks and yesterday saw buds?
No need to stick into a potato first! LOL
Monday, August 8, 2016
Portulaca
They are attracting more bees to my garden. Spotted 3 little bees this morning... Woohoo.. now I need to grow more of them so I have more bees to pollinate. Single petal ones attracts more bees than the multi petal ones!
Mango Tree
Harvested all my mangoes since last week... Still a few left in fridge for me to eat! Yum.... Time to trim the tree.. It is super tall now (over 2m) ...
Kang Kong
Dry weather for the past few days... soil is shrivelling up! Gotta to mulch them with some banana leaves to keep the soil a little moist. They should be ready for picking next week!
Stem Cut Okra
My original lot of okras has grown super tall so decided to trim them to 1/3 of its height. The top section, I just plonked to the styrofoam box and they are growing :-) ... So I am going to have double the harvest now? :-))
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Fig
My Preston Prolific fig plant produced its first mature fig! But it is sooooo TINY.
My potted seed grown fig producing fruits the second time round.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)