If you want bees, plant this!

Yup, this is from experience!! :-) Bees love them!

But only those single petals!

Cape Gooseberry

Plenty of flowers but no fruits still!! :-(

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

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!

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....

Kang Kong Harvest

Harvested my kang kong for mommy as I have no kitchen to cook it for the now! LOL

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.....

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!

Chiku

Finally it ripened!! It was a super long wait!