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.

Sylt Rose Hip - Seed Saving

These are rose hips of Sylt Rose, Rosa Rugosa which I picked when I was in Sylt for a wedding. I decided to save the seeds tonight. Let's take a look!

I  broke open the biggest using a knife.

Didn't she have so many seeds! Rough count was 80 seeds!

After breaking open the biggest 2, I sowed some. The medium-sized one had the biggest seeds, at least twice as big as the former. Let's see if they germinate.

Little Love for My Gemusegarten

I finally had some little time for the gemusegarten.

What's thriving is my raap rapini.

Ms Hydrangea is doing not bad herself as usual.

Mr. Cordyline has grown quite a bit and may I say a little askew? I'm glad, though, that it got its red hue back. It was very green for a while.

Can't say the same for the independent mint. It is sick and it had to go through a major trimming. I also did a round of fish emulsion watering.

 Ms. Lavendar is doing ok - all over the place as usual but sprouted more.

Basil has grown scraggly and turned woody. Sigh. It also has recovered from some spotty disease.

The lime seedlings are still small.

The portulaca I nibbed illegally when I was at the nursery before I left for Hamburg grew, It's yellow. 

I have also decided to sow some seeds - carrot, mini plum tomato, french bean and snap pea. 

I picked some Sylt rose hips whilst I was there. Probably won't thrive due to the climate but I will give it a try.

Lastly, a little tealight holder I got from Hamburg.