Happy Holidays & Bye Bye Garden!

I will be away for the next 13 days! Bye bye to my garden - survival of the fittest!! LOL

Mangoes

Wow didn't see this bunch of developing mangoes! They are pretty big compared to the rest!

Goji Cuttings

Was blessed with some goji cuttings! I hope they survived!

Portulaca

This is the one that I picked up from my holiday! Beautiful stripes of pink!

Okra - Stem Cut

It works!! I took a stem cut of my neighbour's okra (she wanted to discard and make into compost) and plonked onto the ground! Voila! Tiny shoot growing!

Mangoes

Woohoo.. happy to see them getting bigger!

Citronella

Citronella and lemongrass looks exactly the same. So how do you tell them apart? Well, from the stalk and the smell!! LOL... Citronella has red stalks while lemongrass has green stalks.

Red Okras

Keeping 1 for seed!

Big Chilli

A somewhat decent looking plant with some hanging chillies...

Chives

Was gifted with some rooted chives! Gardeners are so willing to share what they grow! I am so ever grateful!

Portulaca

Picked some beautiful portulaca while on holidays and brought them back - all colours that I do not have! Hoping to see their beautiful blooms soon! Adding to my current white, fuschia, yellow and yellow/orange variety!

Holidays!!

Going away for holidays!! Hope my plants survive my absence!! Happy planting, my dear readers!

Mangoes...!

Woohoo.. plenty to share if they are stay!

Honeydew?

This grew from kitchen garbage.... honeydew ka??

Sunflower

This is the best sunflower that I have grown for this current batch. Waiting for it to seed so that I can collect more seeds to grow!

Bananas

Discovered it yesterday!! Woohoo

Weather

Has been raining a lot of late! One of the woes of an open urban farmer! My garden is drenched! Weeds are again growing profusely!

Mangoes

Some are getting bigger indeed! Can't wait! It has been a super long wait!

Yam

A yam grew out of my compost bin!

Cherry Tomato

Ouch! One of the branch of my cherry tomato broke!!

Fix it back by tying a rope over it! :-)

Broke maybe because it was heavily laden with cherry tomatoes!

Mulberries

Collecting them daily and keeping them in fridge so that I can gather enough to make my jam!

Mango-lets

Getting bigger for the first batch... more little ones appearing! I hope all will stay and I will have at least 10 of them!!

Roselle

Precious one and only roselle! Moving it to the ground to promote growth!

Asparagus

50% of my asparagus stalks died! :-( Glad that a few survived and a new stalk grew! This new stalk grew a few inches overnight!! Amazing!

Hibiscus - Orange

Beautiful blooms!

Misa Kuching

The purple variety of misa kuching bloomed!

The white for comparison below:

They are not called Cat's Whiskers for no reason!!

Beetroot

Sowed a whole pack of seeds a few weeks ago... Only 3 appear!

Happy Mother's Day!

A bouquet for Mommy from my garden!!! LOL

Compost Bin

Bought a home made compost bin for RM60. Cheap compared to those commercial ones that sells for over RM100+. This bin is not ideal as the water spout is way too high but for that price, I cannot 'hiam' too much! LOL ... Will try this out and see if my composting will FINALLY work this time round. I decided to add less of the watery kitchen waste! *Pray for Success*

Started my bin yesterday with a new batch of bokashi (1kg for RM9- prices increased yet again!).... :-(

Misa Kuching - Blooms

Managed to capture a clearer picture of its beautiful blooms today!

Xia Gu Cao

My Xia Gu Cao leaves has been eaten up by snails!! Aiyoooo... so decided to move them to a new home, under my moringa tree to save them for myself instead!

Moringa

I chopped off the head of my moringa plant a few weeks ago and it has sprouted new shoots nicely! My neighbour's indian maid just told me today that the boiled leaves of the moringa can be used to treat fever / headache!!

Big Green Lime - Big Hair Cut!

Trimmed off most of the branches of my big lime to see if it will help to boost flower growth!!

Chinese Parsley

Another attempt!! LOL....

Happiness is .....

For an urban farmer, happiness is simply..... seeing your tomato turn red on the vine! :-)

... seeing your flowers bloom!

Spring Onion Seedlings

My neighbour gave me her whole pack of spring onion seeds as she is not successful in sowing them. Gosh, so many sprung up as I threw the whole pack of seeds here! LOL

Ripe Ba Long Long

Yummy

Starfruit

Saw that one of my starfruit is getting too tight for its 'dress'!

So decided to change its 'dress' to something more comfy.. Atlas!!! The stalk broke! Hope it is ripe enough to be eaten!! It looks yellowish so I think it should be!