Seed Saving

I couldn't find the heirloom tomatoes anymore so I bought heirloom beefsteaks instead. The orange one is overripe but it's the yummiest. The biggest one was the fleshiest and the red one wasn't yummy. The seeds weren't as many surprisingly. 

We decided to rent out the other apartment and the new tenant doesn't want to care for the green wall (plus it's quite neglected) so I have changed them to artificial plants.

It doesn't look too bad for a DIY.

of Portulaca, Succulents and Others

A colleague at work ordered a bunch of portulaca cuttings but they were left in the parcel over the weekend, when she got back to work on Monday, the cuttings were affected. She split the cuttings with me to salvage the cuttings seeing that I'm developing a greener thumb.

Another colleague has a pot at work so we planted some and left the pot at the windowsill.

The ones I brought home, I stuck them into various pots.

Back to my own balcony garden:

The magnolia cuttings are growing and coming out from dormancy.

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 All 3 of the magnolia seeds I sowed germinated. I transplanted the biggest to the pot.

Nancy the hydrangea survived after a scare.

The adenium is flowering again.

Baby mother of thousands growing their own babies already.

Mexican Stonecrop.

The most common succulent: Echeveria.

Bluebean.

The vertical garden at the apartment didn't look good at all, spent an hour fixing it. Will need to buy more plants soon. Many died.

Weekend Project and Gemusegarten Update

This weekend saw me kicking off a project that I've been putting off due to holidays and such - vertical garden for the other apartment. Spent RM500 just for the plants. The planters cost even more, if I'm not mistaken. Bought them months ago. This project isn't cheap. 

Plant shopping was done in less than 2 hours which was not bad considering that it started out difficult despite having to prepared with this excel sheet beforehand. 

What threw me off was that I was not able to find the plants I wanted and also keeping track of what I've chosen. I'm a bit scatter-brained. Halfway through, I just gave up on being a stickler on the plant variety and I selected whatever I thought was nice-looking. I let nature play its part. 

The project involved much more time, soil and courage that I expected. It took me about 8 hours and 2 packs of soil. I participated less than a pack of soil which translated into another trip to the nursery.  Courage was for me to face acrophobia. Nevertheless, it was a very satisfying project and a very good Stairmaster workout. 

I bought about 60 plants for 72 stations of vertical garden. I divided some of the plants. Here's the result.

This is the inspiration by the way.

I got this dwarf birds nest for free.

Moving on to my gemusegarten, my raab rapini is doing great.

So is the tomato plant.

 Snap pea seedling and green onion.

I cut the wrong (yet to flower) branch of the hydrangea the other day so I'm doing water propagation. The shoots are growing nicely but there isn't any roots yet.

 BF let Odyssey out at the balcony the other day and she stealthily put out a lavender seedling. 

I thought I lost my basil. They bounced back to life after I trimmed them. The trimmed leaves, I nuked them in the microwave and freeze them.

Did the same thing for the rosemary. She's fattening nicely.

A lot of my plants including the cactus were infested some really shit white pests. Bought 2 bottles of neem oil. I mixed it vigorously with water in a spray bottle. Worked perfectly. My grey flower plumeria took the worst hit but it bounced back after 2 sprays of neem oil mixture. 

What's left of my Maung Pani plumeria. Odyssey pulled it out. So sad. 

This is Odyssey, the nemesis. She's recuperating from hips dysplasia surgery. She will be banned from the balcony for the rest of her life.