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Misc.

The Garden.

Ever since I fell sick, and the weather hasn’t stopped raining, I haven’t really been taking care of the garden. I checked them out a few days back and found that some are growing well, but some, are a little sad.

The Italian Parsley almost died a few weeks back. But look at it now. Growing bigger and stronger. The leaves are so much bigger compared to weeks back!

New leaves are growing out for the Rosemary as well. I still don’t know how to transplant and grow more of them. Anyone?

The basil was huge and full a month ago, but look at it now. Sigh. They kinda died after I transplanted them into the new box. I suspected it’s because of the lack of drainage holes. I’ve poked more holes and hopefully it will grow back. I really love the refreshing basil tea!

About 2 weeks ago Coco dug out my cherry tomato plant. Yeah, dug out. I’ve planted it back immediately and it’s been growing up and down since then. I notice that when it rains, it grows. When the sun comes out, it kinda ‘shrinks’. Probably an indication of ‘more water, please’. :)

I’ve then planted 4 more pots of new plants. The cherry tomato seedling is out. The rest, as usual, nothing happens. Sigh.

Anyone Wants A Pumpkin?

I mean the plant. Yeah, the pumpkin plant.

These days, miracles are everywhere. About 2-3 weeks ago I found unknown species of plants growing everywhere in the garden, including in my vegetable bed. Dad told me they should be some sort of vege as well. A few days later we realised, those are pumpkins. And where did they come from? The kitchen wastes that I buried randomly in the garden to make compost. @.@

It was mainly because mum included the seeds in the unwanted pumpkin skin from her kitchen. I obviously didn’t realise that they could grow so fast and so easily and just popped everything in the garden. Now I start to wonder if the egg shells we buried will give us chicks… LOL!

Anyway, as at least one of them didn’t make it when I transplanted them, I have counted and we should have a total of 6 healthy pumpkin plants growing in our humbly small garden space. So if you live in Penang and would like to try your hands on some homegrown pumpkins, contact me and I shall transplant the younger seedlings to a pot and pass it to you. The bigger ones most probably already have their roots set so I don’t think it’s good to transplant anymore.

And while we are at miracles, 2 weeks ago when I was in the garden, thinking how my two other containers of compost were, I opened up one of them and got myself into a shocked-mode.

Another unknown plant growing in the container, with no sun and water for over 2 months. Crazy. @.@

We later figured that this is a ginger plant (or whatever you call it), which, obviously came from the kitchen again. Gonna transplant to a bigger pot and let it grow. :)