GBBD - NOVEMBER

 

I haven't post any for GBBD so long. It's not that I do not have flowers to show off but I was so busy with little baby.



I trim the hibiscus and they look so funny now......

Now the monsoon season have started. it rains everyday practically! sometimes morning and night! The plants do not really like the soggy soil.

 Wrightia has started flowering! This flowers are really strong against heavy rain!

Periwinkles can be found everywhere! But I'm left with only this colour. Previously I had the white version too! It's a mystery that some flowering plants have gone missing including my balsam! That show how much my garden was neglected for past 2 months.........sigh.....

 

Bunga talang is flowering profusely. The flowers can be used as colouring for Asian food and also to produce juice! Pretty flowers!

For more flowers blooming around the world , feel free to visit may dream flowers

Mullberry fruits!

 

The mulberry plants are producing many fruits now! It's not enough for preparing juice but enough for my son to have it! At the moment many flowering plants have take over mulberry plant area! Soon I need to transfer them!

little fingers ready to pluck the harvest!

 

I guess this is the only fruit tree that has minimum attack by pest. Once in the while bird share it with us! We don't mind since they are not greedy enough to finish it off! ;)

 

starfruit

 

Belimbing or star fruit tree was planted 2 years ago in my garden. I get the interest on this plant after looking at the big tree with so many fruits harvested at one of my blogger friend website (mypotted garden)

Previously the tree was sharing place with sugar cane. The growth was not so good. Due to space constrain I remove the sugar cane and planted at new area. Soon after I realize star fruit tree grow so healthily.

 

From middle of this year I saw many flowers on the tree. So far we have harvested few fruits. It has tart and sweet taste! some fruits was spoil due to pest. I'm not sure how to prevent this. Many worm or may be pest larva was inside.

Nevertheless the tree is growing well now!

The star fruit !!!!

 

It's been too long I never update my blog! The first reason was that I have delivered my baby boy back in August. It was un-expected emergency C-section delivery at 36 weeks. It's considered premature delivery.

Life was too busy caring for the little one and his brother. 2 months maternity leave was just not enough! My delivery story is in my another blog (Here)  but here I would like to talk about my garden. Practically the garden has been left out all together! All the vegetables which was planted was receiving water alone.

 

 

My petola or angle loofah was producing enough fruits for 2 months! That's my main harvest anyway. Luckily my mother was there to pluck the harvest and water the plant!

The pretty yellow flowers

 

Harvest time for green beans!

 Harvest time is the most happiest moment for a gardener! All the effort put in garden rewarded with bagful of harvest. Fresh and pesticide free of food!

I have planted 5 beans plants with the aim of harvesting enough beans for cooking at least a meal! Sometimes it dies half way of pest attack. This time, pest ignore the plant for Hibiscus , curry leaves and spinach! So they forgot or may be never see the beans...At least not yet!

It's beans time again!

Due to my pregnancy, may be I would say my "laziness" make my garden strive on own.

Anyway as my garden vegetables harvest become less and lesser, I started to buy vegetables from wet market. Then I realize the taste is so different from the one fresh from garden, I started to worry about pesticide and wash the vegetables too many times......Of course I still buy many vegetables from market like cauliflower, brocolli , etc but I seldom buy the Asian green actually. .......hahhahaha..... So finally I put aside my laziness and try to plant as much vegetables as I can.

Beans are my 1st harvest after so long. From below pictures you can see that most of my plot is empty. The old sticks and rods are still standing tall without any plants!

Little beans and the purple flower!

  

Daun Pandan is widely used in Southeast Asian cooking! It has good aroma and flavour to cooked food or dessert!This plant is widely cultivated and commonly seen at the backyard.

 

It's has fan-shaped ,long, narrow, blade-like leaves and woody aerial roots. The plant is sterile, flowers only grow very rarely, and is propagated by cuttings.

I had few cuttings from my neighbour last year and it's growing well with little care. I don't fertilize them but it' happy with only water!

It's used as cockroach repellent too!