Abort and Re-do

I had to pull the zucchinis for they were diseased - white fungal stuff growing on the leaves so I'm sowing grey zucchini instead. It's very unfortunate that I've only harvest 1 zucchini so far! They were many fruits forming but they rotted in the end!

Japanese cucumbers that I'm letting to seed. They are attacked by insects too.

A rogue snow pea plant growing. 

Tiny carrots.

Scrawny lettuce slowly fattening up.

Tomato and white radish seedlings.

Very tiny Autumn Beauty sunflower.

2 rogue strawflower seedlings growing among columbine seedlings.

Bauhinia Phanera is flowering in time for my upcoming wedding.

Phantom Gourd and the Rest

The phantom gourd creeper grew a fruit today and I found out it's luffa/petola, one of my favorite veggie. That means, I have to fertilize it and wonder if I should move it to the patch. I mean there's some free space on the patch now. I pulled the red okra today when I saw them infected with something. One Japanese cucumber plant and french died. So I think I can grow this next to the french bean.

I finally made something with the first cucumber that I harvested - cucumber yogurt sauce for grilled fish today. I'm leaving the second cucumber to seed and harvested 2 cucumbers.

Sun was in full force today my carrots withered. I pulled one out and it was quite fat but short. 

So I noticed one zucchini plant grows a lot of female while the other two don't,

A couple more young fruit rotted.

My neglected seedlings. Those are spinach, leek and more spinach. The 3 newspaper pots were chili, they didn't germinated.

Another tray of neglected seedlings. Front to back: Giant Italian parsley and coriander, tomato with parsley, etiolated white radish, onion and Columbine with 2 rogue strawflowers.

I still haven't move the cotton plants to the ground. I really should but the mosquitoes are really crazy right now it's discouraging me from going out there.

My patch. Zucchini and sweet potato are overgrown, another cabbage head kaputted by insect. I accidentally pulled out the kailan that's growing seed pods. It was on my way.

Fruits section is doing not too bad - Longan is still at flowering stage.

At least6 jackfruits are fattening up on the tree. I really wish I know when to harvest because the first one that I harvested didn't even form fruit inside.

Mulberry shrubs are shooting shoots with a lot of fruit in vengeance.

Herb patch is also pretty wild. The latest addition - rosemary is not doing ok.

Harvest of the day.

Edibility

The blueberry didn't survive. I'm sad.

The cotton plants should be ready for transplant.

This particular zucchini plant has 3 fruits but 2 of them seem to be rotting from the butt.

The very neglected radish.

Multi-headed cabbage.

Perfection.

First Japanese cucumber is fattening up.

French beans ready to be harvested

Longan!

The mulberries growing buds so quickly after hard prune. I hope they will fruit in time for the visiting future in-laws.

First Zucchini Harvest

 I intended to wait for a couple of more days before harvest and today I saw a brown speck on it so I plucked it for lunch before the insect takes over. Absolutely yum.

Also harvested some red okras to give to my parents.

Progress

French beans are finally forming pods. Yay.

Our first zucchini which I hand-pollinated because I was anxious. I accidentally stabbed it with my nail when I moved it to lay on the stalk to avoid rot. Gah! 

Harvested most of the kailan a couple of days ago to make space for lettuce. Will be saving seeds from the bolted ones.

The harvest. Made some chips from the leaves but we don't like them so I froze most of the leaves. I really don't know what to do with overgrown kailans.

The stems I peeled and stir-fried with garlic made my super yummy lunch. Even Odyssey loved it.

Fruit start to take form for my longan.

The mulberries had second major prune. I hope I'm not too late so they can fruit again in late Dec for my future in-laws who will be here visiting.

New Acquirement & Mess

 So I was away for almost 2 weeks and I came back to a huge mess of a patch, dying seedlings and bald rose plants. Some of strawflower, most of the 2 parsleys and all my sage seedlings died. Am pretty sad about this. Let's talk about something else, my plot to happiness.

Look how much they have grown! Oh, the grass and weeds were overtaking the plot though.

The lettuce have grown quite a bit too! Those are cotton plants in single pots. Should be transplanting to ground soon.

My blueberry is drowning. It's been raining very heavily lately. Quite a bad idea to plant it in this Ikea hole-less pot so I've transferred it to a regular pot. 

I've cut down the sweet potato which was overtaking the plot. I think I should be able to harvest the potatoes soon too.

The greens that I chopped off.

This poor cabbage seedling etiolated after being covered by the sweet potato.

Many of my bean plants died including all of the berlotti beans before I left due to the hot weather. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that 2 french beans survived and are flowering. It has to be the sweet potato greens that spread all the way and covered the ground.

The red okras decided to grow pods when I was not around so I came back to many overgrown pods. I will save seeds.

Didn't expect the Japanese cucumbers to flower so soon. It looked like I'm gonna have a lot of cucumbers.

 Carrots are doing pretty well too. 

Magda Zucchini are growing pretty wild, one of them grew very big but her flowers are dropping so I cut her smaller. I noticed the smaller plant does better with the flowers.

The chinese kale ave overgrown and some have bolted. I will try to save their seeds.

Broccoli is growing steadily and in different pace as if I did successive planting which I didn't. 

The cabbages are also growing as if it was a succession planting (no it's not) but one of the cabbages multiplied on the head after the bud was attacked by some slug.

This is the textbook bud - hopefully it will start to form the head.

 Transplanted some of heirloom tomato seedlings before I left but only one survived. I reassigned the berlotti bean plot to tomato and I used the weed mat. Maybe the weed mat absorbed too much heat.

I'm letting an Edamame plant to seed.

  

Harvest! Plucked most of the red okras and some edamame for snack. Only a couple of the red okras are edible, the rest will be seeds meanwhile edamame was extremely yummy after a quick boil and tossed with salt! The best!

The big daddy.

Sigh. My seedling trays.

 My sole radish plant. Sowed and transplanted some seedlings before I left but that time was just too hot. I should sow more.

The plot after cleanup.

Mexican Giant sunflower didn't turn out to be giant!? Look how tiny they are! They are no more than 3 feet.

Anyway! My loot from the trip

These packets are pretty as heck!

Perennial Bloom Mixture:
1. Basket of Gold (Sp) 2%
2. Black-Eyed Susan (S/F) 2%
3. Blanketflower (S/F) 7%
4. Candytuft (Sp) 6%
5. Carnation, Double (S) 6% %
6. Columbine, McKana (Sp) 2%
7. Coneflower, Pink (S/F) 5%
8. Coneflower, White (S/F) 1%
9. Coreopsis, Lance-leaved (S) 4%
10. Dianthus, Spring Beauty (Sp) 4%
11. Daisy, Shasta, Alaska (S) 4%
12. Forget-Me-Not, Woodland (Sp/S) 2%
13. Gayfeather (S/F) 6%
14. Lupine, Bigleaf (Sp/S) 28%
15. Mexican Hat (S/F) 1%
16. Moss Verbena (S) 4%
17. Oxeye Sunflower (S) 8%
18. Penstemon, Rocky Mt. (S/F) 3%
19. Wallflower, Siberian (Sp) 5%
(from Botanical Interests)