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.

Edibility

The blueberry didn't survive. I'm sad.

The cotton plants should be ready for transplant.

This particular zucchini plant has 3 fruits but 2 of them seem to be rotting from the butt.

The very neglected radish.

Multi-headed cabbage.

Perfection.

First Japanese cucumber is fattening up.

French beans ready to be harvested

Longan!

The mulberries growing buds so quickly after hard prune. I hope they will fruit in time for the visiting future in-laws.

Progress

French beans are finally forming pods. Yay.

Our first zucchini which I hand-pollinated because I was anxious. I accidentally stabbed it with my nail when I moved it to lay on the stalk to avoid rot. Gah! 

Harvested most of the kailan a couple of days ago to make space for lettuce. Will be saving seeds from the bolted ones.

The harvest. Made some chips from the leaves but we don't like them so I froze most of the leaves. I really don't know what to do with overgrown kailans.

The stems I peeled and stir-fried with garlic made my super yummy lunch. Even Odyssey loved it.

Fruit start to take form for my longan.

The mulberries had second major prune. I hope I'm not too late so they can fruit again in late Dec for my future in-laws who will be here visiting.

Inedibles

Ms Ridleyi lost one of her fronds.

But she's growing two more!

Elephantotis growing new shields.

A random baby on the Elkhorn.

I thought I lose the maidenhair fern but no! Lucky I didn't pull it out and chuck away!

One plumeria finally blooming! Can't wait see what variety this is!

Wild orchid, they said. I need to find out the name.
** 6/12/2017 - ID identified: Arundina Orchid aka Bamboo Orchid

Cute balsams. Will be collecting seeds and sell soon.

Random thing growing among the rainlily. I accidentally pulled out some of the tuberose bulbs during weeding so I planted them in here too.

All the mulberry bush had major pruning again.

I uprooted the remaining of dahlia seedlings that I transplanted to ground near entrance. Odyssey trampled most of them. The reason I uprooted and clear the area is to plant some more durable (and cheap) for an upcoming event in January. Marigold maybe? I purchased 6 pots of marigold at RM24 today. Quite a steal as someone told me she bought a pot at RM6.

I also cleared on another side where I transplanted the lavender-colored balsams.

The area where I intend to grow the Botanical Interests Perennial Mix. I should start sowing the seeds. 

Upclose of a Mexican Giant Sunflower bloom.

Tutti Fruity

So the rambutan tree has started to grow fruits.

My longan lada.

Guava that my sister got me from her fiance's house.

My poor lemon is always full of caterpillars! Argh!

This is either lemon or local mandarin that I grew from seed.

Mulberry has been fruiting profilically after heavy prune.

Recently bought a blueberry plant, it's rabbiteye variety. 

Our first jackfruit!