Spinach

Snails are making a "come back" in my little garden!  I just sowed spinach seeds few weeks back and they are growing now. Does egg shell prevent them?

I hope snails don't find the way to this bed. My first successful attempt with red spinach!

The red spinach

 

This is my very first time to be successful to harvest red spinach. I sow them directly to the vegetable bed. I don't really have high hope since I never succeed in the past. Most of the seedling will be eaten up by pest or die young.

These shall be on my weekend cooking menu. Popeye love spinach! He become strong after eating a tin of them. I'm not sure if it's red or green spinach! Let me see if I get that strength too! hahhahaa.....

spinach harvest

The last of spinach harvest. Most of the leaves already tasted by the grasshopper.

Spinach!

"Popoye the sailor man" was my favourite cartoon when I was young! Every time I see him gulping a tin of spinach I will be wondering if spinach give that much power to human! hahha......

In reality I don't have Popoye in my garden but I have a lot of grasshoppers munching my spinach!

This is my last harvest of spinach for this year! I rather eat this spinach than the wet market bought spinach which is all round and without even a little hole....... I know why there is no sign of a pest attack.....

Bayam @ spinach

It's been almost 2 weeks ++  I never post anything. I was busy with Deepavali and after that my Internet connection was down.

Anyway I'm back now! ;)

I have no luck with red leaf spinach but green is common in my garden! They grow wild and give me enough supply of spinach! Grasshoppers love them too!

They taste good and pack with nutrition!

The spinach seeds! I never save any for future planting but the seeds are enough for self seeding everywhere!

spinach everywhere....

Spinach do self seeds easily. I can see them everywhere on my vegetable bed. All are green variety. None are red. I have blog previously on how hard i find growing the red spinach. Hope to see the red spinach seedling too!

Bayam

Bayam or spinach is very nutritious vegetables to have in the backyard! They self seeds easily too. I have find hard time with red spinach but green seems to be popping up everywhere in my garden. Once you planted them and let them to bolt, you will have them everywhere later on.

My spinach have started to bolt including the red variety which is still small. Let see if i can see baby seedling of red spinach anywhere in the vegetables patch after this!

As usual, grasshoppers seems to like the leaves very much. At this moment i let them have a feast with my bayam as the leaves are not so tender to eat anymore.

Red Demanding Spinach!

I have found another vegetable which is hard for me to grow! It's red spinach! I have tried sowing their seeds twice. 100% germination but somehow after that they don't grow anymore. The plant just die. I tried transplanting them individually to the ground but i face the same problem. I don't have any green thumb with them.... Out of 20 seeds only 2 have grow up so far....sigh....

Bayam....infected??

My whole batch of Bayam / spinach leaves infected by some kind of disease. The leaves have brown spot all over. This bed was planted with long beans vines previously. I tried pruning them but no effect. This is definitely gardening went wrong?.....

Spinach on vegetable bed

I'm not so good in seeds saving. The only seeds that i have saved so far are Sawi, Bayam, kangkung (water convolvulus) and Balsam. I'm still in learning stage from fellow gardeners about seeds saving.

Since Monsoon season have left us, i can see sun everyday now. This will be perfect time to transfer baby seedling to the vegetable bed. Last Sunday evening I have transferred seedling of spinach to vegetable bed. Previously i sow them in square pot which i post it here

Bayam or Spinach have very tiny seeds which you can collect from dried flower head.

Bayam at various stage. Some already munched by green little caterpillar!

I want to link this post to Diana Seeds Week! For more about detail on seeds week and seeds saving please have a look at Kebun Malay Kadazan Girls

Spinach!

Popoye just luv this green leaves! My spinach seedling area! Hope i will have handful of spinach for dinner soon!

Anyway I should brush up my "photo taking" skill or may be spent some time to snap rather than rushing while cooking dinner........ hhmmm .... lifestyle of working wife & mum......!!!