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.

Sidetracked

It's an exceptional long weekend (Bank holidays from Thursday to Monday) and I was sidetracked by hosting 3 dogs via petsodia.com.

This tiny one had to be separated from time to time. She's being harrassed by the bigger dogs.

Odyssey has been trampling all over my plot, in fact, has killed a snow pea and an edamame seedling so it's high time I put the fence up. 

I repurposed the rambutan branches we pruned last month and bought some garden mesh, nails, hinges and cable ties.

This cute fairy gate, although it's a little flimsy. I couldn't fix the hinges in the position I wanted as the branch isn't smooth. I avoid cutting too much to preserve the naturalness of the wood.

Temporary latch, or maybe I will just leave it as it is for I aim to spend the least. I will also set the fence up for the herb garden soon. Total spent for both fences is RM128. Not too bad.

My poor edamame seedling. Stupid Ody.

Oops I've Been Lazy

Lazy to do write an entry here anyway. Well I'm not as productive as I wanted to do also on gardening.

Anyway.... this is the progress of Rae's happiness is a plot. I'm contemplating if I still need to make a fence so Odyssey won't be able to take over the plot.

Seeds that I've sown since last week: African Marigold 'Fantastic Gold', Autumn Beauty Sunflower, Edamame, Snow pea, red okra, kohlrabi, red bowl salad lettuce, raab rapini, Canton pakchoy, chinese kale (Kailan) and carrot.

I also added mugwort into my edibles. I purchased saplings from Carousell and turned out that there's some growing out from a heap of compost the previous tenant left. 

My herb garden. What didn't survive - the parsleys and lavender. 

My dwarf plumeria was so water-clogged that it rotted bounced back and bloomed.

Also sowed the remaining of bachelor's button, balsam and evening primrose (primrose didn't germinate)

It's either lemon or mandarin.

My very cute maidenhair.

My adenium is a prolific bloomer and still suffers the same curse.

There are 5 mulberry bushes/trees on the compound and they suffered curled up shoots (fungal infection?) so I decided to prune them. Plus pruning encouraged them to fruit. 

My lowland hydrangeas show growth which is a great sign.

The heirloom tomatoes that I sowed turned out to be red zebras. A few split and I'm unsure if it's getting early blight of just too dry as the leaves are dried up. I had some for lunch today.

The jasmine-like plant that I rescued has paid back to me by flowering for me.

I'm very happy that I didn't kill the portulacas left by the previous tenant and they have started flowering. They are some planted in the pot and I'm thinking to move them to ground.

I actually also have a hibiscus growing close to the veggie plot although it's not doing so well lately. This was taken earlier this month.

I have also invested in a compost bin. Oh YAS.

 Just a random shot of the dogs enjoying the late noon.

New Babies

My 2 unknown Platyceriums arrived. They are reckoned to be Wallichii but... anyway they looked wilted when I took them out from the package. Gave them some water and left them at the balcony for some air.

And they all look perked up in the evening (well, I took this picture midnight actually).

And here's Odyssey saying hi!

I've noticed there's a row of 3-4 trees full of Platyceriums and birdnest ferns in KL/Bangsar road and I managed to pulled over just the other to admire and take a couple of pictures of them.  A closer look showed they belonged to someone - the platyceriums are tied to the trees and spotlights were installed to show them off. Was so tempted to pluck the lowest ones!  

We went to the new house and lo and behold, there's a flowering Rangoon Creeper growing at the back of the house which I'm very much tempted to move them to the front porch to twine with Bauhinia Phanera kockiana. 

 There are plenty of mulberry trees and birdnest ferns that I plan to either sell or give away. The previous tenant also left few orchids of unknown ID and some foliage plants (spider plant?). A Kauka Wilder is growing nicely in the front yard too. 

Homegrown

Picked some Syngonium aka arrowhead plant while walking the dogs for the green wall over at another apartment. Some of the plants didn't survive so I have to replace the empty slots.

More new shoots appearing for Magnolia Lily.

Highland hydrangea is not giving up.

For some weird reason, my lemon's losing leaves.

New shoots for Magnolia Coco too. 

The longan was pretty stagnant and then suddenly one wild branch of leaves appeared. 

Sowed more bachelor's button seeing the smaller died.

Dill from the supermarket is somewhat surviving.

Coco has been going through my mint.