More and a Little More

I've bought more seeds - sown today: cabbage, red flower french bean, Italian parsley, calendula, dahlia, sunflower, strawflower and some kailan to replace the seedlings that didn't survive heavy rain recently.

Two of the edamame plants have started to flower which I feel too quick as they are just about 20cm.

Chinese kale aka kailan.

Bokchoy.

Two of my snow pea seedlings were accidentally cut by the gardener. One doesn't look like it will survive.

Four Japanese sweet potato and 5 red okra seedlings.

So I saw rainlily is being sold at RM25 on FB and few weeks back I found them at the edge of the drain on the main street so I gathered them and planted them few days ago. Didn't expect them to bloom so quickly.

The previous tenant planted heliconia at the fence and they don't look good. They also started to grow outside the border. Look at this rogue one.

I also bought a pot of rose this morning when I went to purchased the reserved seeds.

The sole survivor of my first sunflower seedlings. Well, the rest didn't germinate. This is Autumn Beauty. 

Cempaka telur aka Magnolia Coco has grown more growth after we moved here.

Japanese rose, or actually accurately Mexican rose thriving at this sandy area despite being trampled by the dogs.

The jackfruit has fruited. Initial count is 20 fruits. This one has been dressed with a t-shirt to be protected from elements and pests.

The major pruning I did on mulberry bushes paid off. They are heavily fruiting now.

This poor fake dill went berserk after being pelted by heavy rain so I cut them off so they can grow again.

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.

Long Time No See

It has been ages since the last post. I will be frank, the balcony garden has been neglected, borderline abandoned. I lost my interest in plumeria seeing that I am not able to provide the best environment for them. Same goes to growing edibles. I just don't have the best I'm somewhat leaning towards to succulents. You will see new additions later in the post.
Today I spent half an hour clearing things up.

Do you see a baby?

Dwarf gardenia has been in a not so good condition too.

Bali Hai Gold grew a second inflo whilst the first one died back. Kauka Wilder is blooming too.

Cordyline grew too tall so I cut it down and it grew three new shoots. Fourth one is starting to grow too.

My mini succulent bowls didn't really work out as I overwatered (as usual) so I transferred them.

Trimmed the desert rose and am propagating these for my dad.

My boyfriend's cactus bowl from his office. Only one survived. The small succulent plant was a stowaway from one of the succulents I bought recently.

The mint almost died so I chopped everything off. Good to see that worked out fine.

Harvested my ginger.

They are pretty thin, I wonder if it was my minimal effort in fertilizing. 

I harvested them because I'm planting a new variety - Bentong ginger. I am somewhat sceptical when I bought from the morning market today. They don't quite look the same from the one I bought from supermarket. Did I just get conned?? 

OK! Let's move on to the new additions!

Not really for my balcony garden, these two are for the plant wall for the other apartment. I have about almost 10 empty stations. Many have died.

New succulents! Let's use movement of a clock direction. 

I lost 2 succulents that I brought back from Australia, only one survived and they are growing very slowly at 6 o'clock. Succulents at from 9 - 1 o'clock aren't new. They were from the succulent bowls. The weird-looking succulent between 6-9 o'clock is quite rare and belongs to my sister, it's called Lithops and I'm quite grossed out by it because it looks like a dissected brain. This cost RM39 and I actually lost a layer of leaves from overwatering again. I have just transferred it to this bigger pot to have better draining. I'm taking care of it on my sister's behalf because she isn't confident in keeping it alive.

The succulents in the middle and at 3 o'clock are new! Haven't figure out what variety yet.

 Originally wanted to buy more of this for the plant wall but it's just too expensive so it's gonna stay here. Don't know what to do with it yet.

Sowed some seeds from supermarket lemons. Will they fruit without grafting though? I also sowed the remaining Meyer Lemon seeds I bought from Sydney and they didn't germinated either. Really crappy seeds. 

Bought this packet from the supermarket in my office building. Cost about over RM20. Rather expensive but I was curious. They have other varieties too but carrots was the best option for me. 

3 of maybe 8 seeds germinated but I killed them by not watering them? Heh.