Nothing Like When You Grow Your Own Edibles

The plot has been doing pretty ok - I really need to do something with the weeds and I should have fertilize the plot prior. 

Cabbages are a little too slow to my liking. 

Hello zucchini! I'm growing Magda variety.

The biggest broccoli and at the back is the red okra. The red okra started to bloom at less than 5 inches so I pinched all of them and they grew bigger. 

I think this is french bean!

I've also planted some Japanese cucumbers.

Snow pea! The flowers are so pretty! And look! I have my first pea!

It's difficult to focus and the mosquitoes wore my patience thin.

Borlotti beans! Don't know what happened to the one on the right. It wilted today suddenly.

I chose to grow carrots in the pot with fantastic soft soil so I could get picture perfect carrots.

 The remainder of the kailans I grew - I sowed some seeds to fill the space.

I've got some arugula growing too.

And some lionhead/curly lettuce.

I've also recently added stevia to my herb plot.

Productive

Not me, but the plants.

Edamames have start to produce with just 5 inches tall.

So is the red okra. At 3 inches, they are already growing pods. I would actually rather have them grown taller and stronger before that!

Mulberry, of course, have been prolific producers although we never get to enjoy. Birds and other animals (fruit bat, squirrels?) got to them first.

 My snow pea are climbing up the fence.

Mexican giant sunflowers are growing.

Japanese sweet potatoes also start taking firm ground.

A few of the bokchoys are attacked by slugs already.

Kailans are slower than bokchoy.

Hello carrots.

My ornamental and edible seedlings.

I've also managed to germinate some borlotti seeds that I dried. Didn't really expect them to germinate.

Gorgeous Ylang-ylang that permeates slight fragrance when I touch them.

Seed Saving and Sowing

I'm attempting to save seeds for snow peas and borlotti beans. Let's hope it works.

Another grand project of mine is to grow sunflower on the tiny slope facing the kitchen window. It's so uninspiring, sad and full of weeds. I've sowed about 75 seeds of Mexican Giant and American Giant. Let's hope for the best.

American giants. I bought the seeds quite cheaply via Carousell.

Mexican giants. These were sowed almost a week earlier.

Happy to see most of the seeds have germinated.

Things are going pretty ok for the veggie except there are a lot of weed seedlings especially caladium seedling. Annoying. The plants are growing at different stages but doing ok. I'm quite disappointed with my edamame seed germination skills. I bought 20 seeds and only 9 seeds survived.

My house is infested with these caladiums! Another variety is the green-leafed and they are lot on my veggie plot so I'm trying to sell them off.

Since I'm home most of the time, I'm earning extra income by offering boarding service for dogs. This is the pack (2 goldens, 2 pugs, 1 shih tzu and 1 Maltese) for the weekend.