Pumpkin

We had a few pumpkin sprouts in a tray that were growing so well. After a month I started moving them to our garden bed, surrounding Roselle plant in  a circle. Not long after, the pumpkin vines started crawling out in the garden big space and even into the drain! *which vines I had pulled out back on to the ground*. Excited and can't wait to see how these turn out :D

pumpkin plants at home...

Trips

During the long holiday on Eid's week we made a trip to nearby organic eco farm, a walking tour in a big group of tourists and visiting locals. Loved how the organizers keep the tour interesting while still surrounded by plantations and veges alike... As a daily coffee consumer, seeing coffee beans live on trees were just amazing! Not to mention fig tree as i had only known them from Nigella cooking shows.

Some pictures from the trip of the plants i had never seen before, and snapshot of the gardening activity :)

We were just amazed with all kinds of well planned activities in the itineraries. From crossing the river on hanging bridge and flying fox, to feeding the rabbits with the wild plants in the farm, to hands-on gardening activity where each group or family allocated to a tiny plot of land and there we get to harvest salad and water-spinach to bring home. It was humid, sunny, sweaty, and fun :D

Tomato - from fruit

Was trying to see if i can get the seeds from an overripe tomato to sprout. So i cut the tomato fruit into four and placed them on the soil, seed sides down. It worked for me but was slower than planting from seeds. After few weeks the sprouts grew about 2" long. So that worked but now i'm going to find myself heirloom tomato seeds/fruit. I'll keep this one as well for side-by-side comparison..

Seedlings...

Carrot top - A month into heavy rain...

The rainy season brought much delight to my garden. I no longer need to water the plants so often as heavy rain pours over every single day and night. We're enjoying the cool weather and all the plants seem to grow bigger, taller, spring up and branch out :) Here's the carrot top that i planted earlier which now has grown really well considering the last one died due to extreme hot weather. As I wanted to setup a garden bed of carrot tops, I will need to plant more of these...

We love rainy season :)

Carrot-top reset!

This is a carrot top that i keep temporarily at one of the turmeric pot, now already growing 2" leaves. The picture was taken after a heavy rain.

beautiful..

Garden - part 1 - reset :)

Most of the sprouts and mini projects we had started earlier went down due to many reasons, other than busy schedules of our actual day job that kept us away from home during daylight :) except i guess for the corn that grew tall, produced, and became our kitten's go-to scratching pole. The corn plant withered after bearing five corns.. such a shame that we didnt capture the progress. Turmeric made it out alive quite easily. My ginger plant finally grows after a number of attempts. 

Not as lucky were avocados, carrot tops, cherry tomatoes, and long beans. They didnt survive the dry season. Also a row of newly transplanted catnips were swept away by heavy rain and thunderstorms that came not long after the dry season! 

It suffices to say that i am starting all over again.

I've now got carrot top that i keep temporarily at one of the turmeric pot, already growing 2" leaves.