Etc Etc Etc

I made a new macramé for Gus the cactus leaf fern (for whatever reason, this one is very masculine to me, thus a male name) and planning to hang Dundee the crocodile fern next to it, I just need to look for the right macramé pattern for it.

Well, well, well, look who's leafing again.

Rainbow carrots have germinated -  I was a little doubtful as the seeds were a little old.

Ali's root gets longer and it appears she might grew a couple of new ones. It also appears she has another node which I'm wondering if I should cut and propagate when it's more stable since the variegation is not as prominent and also as a safety.

Cute LWS flowers.

 The sprout of Stephania was very likely burnt as I left it open under the sun the other day and the other is just rotting I sliced it half trying to salvage it.

(Long-stemmed) Red roses from husband on Valentine's Day. They wilt so quickly!

A decapitated daffodil from the yard. Am I going to see blooms at all??

I planted some garlics that sprouted the other day just for the heck of it.

White onion that has sprouted grew beautiful roots but the bulb is rotting. I'm keeping this for the greens as it sprouted.

I chopped the larger leaves because it just looked so messy.

New acquisition: Philodendron gloriosum. Currently in Malaysia.

Passive Aggressive

For a while, I have been thinking about converting my plants to passive hydroponics or also known as semi-hydroponics. Geoppertia kegeljanji Network, Nani, is looking pretty ridiculous ever since I combined both together so I decided to detach them and took this chance to convert them to passive hydroponics. 

Look, the size of both just differ so much.

Meanwhile, I'm starting to germinate some edibles - mainly carrots. Bok choy and some beans are next.

Darling Just Dive Right in and Follow My Lead

I have finally secured myself a red magnolia. I hope to have a better luck this time. It did seem to have a good start as after I stripped all the leaves, the bud began leafing again after a day.

Honey Dijon is very quickly becoming my favourite rose. She also has a faint pleasing scent.

Ad for my platyceriums... 

The maidenhair fern that I almost lost flourished again.

Cotton bud. How cute is that?! I have not repotted them so the cotton plants are very leggy but they are forming buds.

My sunflower patch that never materialise. Will be clearing the area soon. 

The Kauka Wilder tree has been pretty happy I suppose as she is flowering massively.

The phantom bougainvillea near the veg patch finally bloomed. It's a pretty orange-hued one.

Now let's talk about the Plot to Happiness. I've totally neglected it as I was very occupied with my wedding preparation and then at the same time, there's a bun in the oven. I'm in my 15th week this week and finally started to feel like a human again. So I cleared the forsaken patch, and covered with the weed-blocker. I think I will take a break for now.

I harvested the white radish a couple of weeks ago but they are still in the fridge.

Yesterday I harvested the carrots. Many of fellow gardeners in my FB group were impressed by the size of them as it is known that carrots grown in (lowland) Malaysia are tiny and thin. I believed that they could have been bigger as I stopped caring for them since November.

They are our dinner tonight. Not only they smelled so good when I pulled them out, they tasted amazing raw.

 As I was clearing the patch, I pulled out many tiny sweet potato tubers. What the heck, I really thought it was a failure as I pulled most of them out in December and all I got was 2 alright-sized tubers.

Quite motivated by how well my carrots did, I sowed some again in the same pots and moved them to the front instead. At the same time when I was rummaging through my seeds that I kept in the fridge. I felt a surge to plant things again but I do doubt that I won't have the time to care for it so maybe I will just use the planters I have to plant some greens.

Look at this cute pineapple!

Seedless guava sapling from my sister's boyfriend's family tree has grown a flower bud. Truth be told, I've been eating a lot of guava lately.

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.