Category: Garden

• Garden Shopping

  06.10.14 |Garden, Shopping| Permalink | Comments Off on Garden Shopping

  Now I have a new hobby is to visit the local garden stores to shop for new plants. Today I got myself a strawberry and grape plant. It is difficult to grow these in hot weather. I hope I can make them fruit. I still got lots to learn when it comes to gardening. Sometimes I get over excited and got too many plants. I do wish they sell more varieties of flowers. Love those flower plants in US.

  When I was in US, I bought lots of different seeds. And today I planted more than 20 different seeds. Now I am excited to see which will actually grow here. Let?s hope all make it. I just want my garden to have more beautiful flowers, vegetable and fruit trees. Let’s hope that happen.

  Here is my strawberry plant..

  
  
  

• Curry Leaves

  01.15.14 |Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Curry Leaves

  
  
  

  I got this baby curry leaves plant at my church ground. I took it home any put in a planter box. I just like the way it grows. It looks like a big green flower.

  Someone told me that if you chew 3 curry leaves a day, your grey hair will slowly disappear. I am not sure how truth but you can surely try. However it is not so easy to chew curry leaves as it has a tough texture and lots of fiber. It works better if you cut it into tiny strips for easy digestion. Try it at your own risk.

  I still prefer to eat home made curry.

• Of First Fruit & Flower

  01.08.14 |Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Of First Fruit & Flower

  
  
  

  I am so glad that my tomato plant finally gives me some fruits. I was trying to plant cherries tomato from seeds. Sad to say, I killed the first 2 plant. Well I guess the bugs or pest kill it. I am told that I don?t have green hands. But I won?t give up. I started another plant using some seeds. It germinated and grew.

  I was so happy when the plant started to flower. Previous ones didn?t flower at all. Then the fruits came. It took a few weeks for it to turn red or orange. I cannot wait to taste my first fruit.

  Another plant that made me was my orchid plant. It was flowerless for a few years. Suddenly flowers blossom and made my day. I didn?t even do anything to it.

  Patience pays off!

  
  
  

• Angled Beans

  10.02.13 |Food, Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Angled Beans

  Today I harvested some angled beans from my garden. I am so happy that finally see the plant bear fruits. It took me a long time to germinate the seeds. I believed after 3-4 tries. Finally it grew and I didn?t see any flowers blooming. I thought the plant is doomed. After a few months, the plant begun to cover my pergola and I spotted a few flowers.

  Now I see many flowers and keeping my finger crossed that the plants will bear lots of beans. Angled beans go very well with Sambal Chilies. I made some today and it is super delicious!

  
  

  

  
  

• Cucumbers!

  04.15.13 |Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Cucumbers!

  Remember my cucumber plant, finally I got cucumber from it. At first when it sprouted out my compost, I thought it was a watermelon plant. The plant started with lots of male flowers and no female flowers to be seen. I was so excited when 1 sprouted out. However it died because I was still learning how to hand pollinate it.

  I decided to direct it to climb up to my pergola. As it climbed, it produces more female flowers. Finally I managed to pollinate a few female flowers and got cucumbers! *EXCITED*

  
  

  

  Started with a funny shaped cucumber but it grown to be fat.

  

  

  Now I am getting double!

  

• Gardening: Custard Apple

  03.04.13 |Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Gardening: Custard Apple

  My custard apple plant germinated from seed since Feb 2013. I would like to track how long it takes to bear fruit. Let’s hope I don’t kill it first.

  
  
  

• Planting Cucumber

  02.17.13 |Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Planting Cucumber

  I started planting cucumber last November from seeds. The plant grew very well and produces lots of flowers. However most of the flowers are male flowers. Every leaves it produce, it has 2-3 male flowers. Two weeks ago, I was quite excited to see 1 female flower from the lot. The sad part was I had to go for a 1 week vacation.

  After I came back, I could not find the female flower anymore. It is a mystery to me how it vanished. I suspect that the bug must have eaten it. Now I have to wait for another one to come by so that I can have a big fat cucumber!

  
  
  

• Phlox Or Not?

  12.11.12 |Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Phlox Or Not?

  This is the case of you don’t know what you going to get until you plant it. I was hoping to get the flowers on the packet label but instead I got a different kind. Now I am confuses whether the flower that I planted is phlox. What do you think? Did they pack the right seeds? I have no clue!

  
  
  

• Red Day

  12.01.12 |Garden| Permalink | Comments Off on Red Day

  My garden decided to give me red flowers. Love them! I like colors in my garden beside green. I do have purple, red, yellow, pink and blue. Today it is RED…

  
  
  

• Weekend Shopping

  11.05.12 |Garden, Shopping| Permalink | Comments Off on Weekend Shopping

  Last weekend, I went shopping for flowers. I like to see colors in my garden. When I was at the plants store, I saw so many beautiful flowers. It was not that expensive, most of them were below RM10 per pot.

  I don’t know about you but I really have tough time planting anything from seed. I can plant clone herbs like basil or peppermint from stems. Maybe I didn’t have the patient or the soil is not right.

  Anyway I almost wanted to get all the flowers there. They are so pretty. Here is what I got….

  
  
  

  Now every now and then, I will walk to the garden if I want a rest from my work. It is quite refreshing really since most of the time I work from home. By the way, here is my vertical garden, I got the idea from internet. It is good for those who have very little space for gardening like my home. I hope I can plant more vegetables next! Choy Sum and tomato in the making.