My Farming Footprints: March 2016

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Bad Combination!

Yup, I think it is a bad combination to grow tomatoes next to chillies!! They both attract tonnes of white flies!! :-(

Surprise surprise! I picked a yellow fully ripen ba long long off the tree to eat on spot and surprise! It taste a little sourish (cos I bit the skin off) and the seed with its spikes are all gone! The whole fruit can be eaten! Wow, not bad!!

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Citrus Fertiliser For My Limes

I am desperate indeed! Trying all sorts of fertilisers to get my lime to flower & fruit! Saw this @ ACE Hardware and praying that THIS WILL BE IT! :-)

Flowers!

Which garden can do without flowers?! Haha

Conjoined Twin Cherry Tomato

Looks like a bum! :-)

Star Fruit

The biggest of the 4 is about the size of my index finger now!

Plenty of blooms but I wonder how many will turn to fruit?

Laksa Leaves

I hardly use laksa leaves in my cooking but it is always good to have so that when you need it, it is there for you to pick! I realised that to grow laksa leaves well, you need to constantly trim it to promote new growth!

Mint

This pot of mint came alive after I moved it from a shady place to a place with more sunshine. It was heavily infested with aphids when in the shady place. Now it is still but less so. Guess the sunshine helps to make it healthier.

Friday, March 25, 2016

French Bean

This variety of french bean has been producing flowers even before it starts to vine!

Edamame

Ready for picking!

Marcot - Big Geen Lime

The 2nd batch of marcotting has rooted - look at how big the roots are and that some of it are coming off the plastic wrappings!

My 1st marcotting is doing VERY well.. Many new shoots coming off the stem. I hope to see some flowers soon!

Starfruit - Protections

Protected my precious with these little pockets!

They are about 3/4 size of my index finger now!

Ginseng Jawa - Little Babies

Guess from the seeds that came after the flowering boom

Monday, March 21, 2016

Red Amaranth Seedlings

Seeds gifted by someone!

Red Periwinkle

My camera is simply not doing justice to my beautiful RED periwinkle!! It is a dark red as opposed to what you see here in this picture. This picture seems to show the colour of a typical roadside periwinkle! :-(

Small Lime

My small lime tree is really very productive. Once you add a little fertiliser, it will burst into blooms quite quickly! I wish my big lime tree is like this!!! Argh

Marcot : Fig

I am into marcotting mood now!! Marcotted my fig plant & my mango tree today!

This branch is getting too long so instead of chopping it off to waste, I decided to do marcotting! For me, it is easier to marcot than to root in water. The latter is too much of a hassle for a lazy gardener like me! :-)

Chives!

Harvested my chives today! Just trimmed off the top to make egg omelette for dinner!

Pink Cloeme

Can't wait to see its first blooms! I have at least 20 of them growing around the garden.... it will be a sight when all starts to bloom!

Tiny Starfruits

1 dropped off... Will try wrapping it when they are slightly bigger. I wanna get to eat them before others! LOL

Xia Gu Cao

Think they have rooted! So easy to grow them. Will wait a while more before I transplant to the ground.

Chye Sim - Ready for Harvest

By this weekend, I will harvest them for the table!

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Easiest Way To Do Compost

For me at least! This is the easiest way to do compost. Collect grass cuttings, leaves etc and just dump them into this big basket. Let it rot on its own for a few months. After drying up, viola! I have home made compost! LOL

I do not add my kitchen garbage into this pile as it will attract too many pests to it and it will also be too watery. So it is purely discarded waste from the garden.