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The First Harvest.

Yesterday we harvested my first batch of vege from the garden. One Pak Choy and one Choy Sum. Were they tasty? Not being a very vege-people myself, I’d say YES THEY WERE TASTY – of course, they are from my garden. LOL!


The Pak Choy.


Choy Sum. It looks like a huge bunch from this photo but neh, it’s just the angle. :P

The okras are starting to grow and the pumpkin plant is about to bloom. I bought another 8 packets of seeds last week (consist of cherry tomatoes, broccoli, parsley, peppermint, and capsicums) and have started sowing a few. Hopefully can success this time too. :)

News from the Garden.

Life is still busy. I got a little down and depressed today after some hectic work for the past few days, and decided to take a break. I’m very sure that I’ve missed something very important in life. Evil-y I sometimes enjoy that hectic part of life. Yeah, sometimes. :)

Anyway, here are some news from the garden.


The bamboo baby (the first one from right) shot up about a month ago and it’s now almost as tall as the original ones!


And another bamboo baby is ready to see the world too! See that small green thing in the middle? :) Apparently I took the wrong shot. This is NOT the bamboo baby. It’s some unknown plant. >.< But, but, another real bamboo baby is really shooting. :D


Mum passed some waste from the kitchen to grandma’s maid about a week ago, and 2 days after burying, some unknown species of plant/vege came out, again! @.@ You probably can’t see them clearly in the photo but they are there. Although mum swore that she took out all the seeds but mum, what are these? >.<


The pumpkin is now growing like nobody’s business. Only one of the pumpkin plants is growing so big. The rest must have been suffering from lack of nutrients because of it. Mum will be giving away one of them to her friend. The rest, I’ll probably need to take them away – killing them in other words. I’m really not good when it comes to this. I’m a weirdo, I know.


This is the official vege bed. All five of the okras are growing very well. Three of the unknown veges (most likely are Pak Choy and Choy Sum) are also doing good. The maid included two papaya trees there. Ya I know my garden is messy. LOL!


We realised that one of the plants that looks like pumpkin isn’t pumpkin after all. Dad said most likely it’s cucumber. So one evening I decided to move it to another side of the garden but with the heavy rain after that, it was so soaked and wet and looks like it’s almost dying. But then again, check out that piece of healthy leaf. It’s just so green that you know it’s not dying yet. This morning I noticed a few other leaves grew out too. I’m glad that it’s such a strong plant. :)


The lavender, on the other hand, still refuse to bloom after so many weeks. It hasn’t really been growing since the day I brought it back. Not sure why. We’ll see.

Both me and darl are starting to see our direction in life and business after the weekend at Pipit’s Wonderful Market. We have talked several times and are all set to work on it, just waiting for the right time for our own. :)

Sometimes, Your Parents Are Right.

As you may know, I’ve been trying to grow some vege seedlings for really a long while, but it’s just not happening. They normally just grew and grew and then suddenly, died.

When I talked to my dad about this my dad said I should just plant the seeds in the garden bed that I’ve prepared way long ago and just let it grow. I told him that I’ve been reading a lot on the internet saying that planting seedlings and then transplant to the bed is a better idea. He said I’m not going to get a single piece of vege if I keep doing this. We’ll see – I said.

Some time last week I was really frustrated, realising the fact that this time around, even nothing is willing to come out of the seedling pot. I decided to place 4 seeds of ladies’ fingers and cabbages each to the garden bed, and water and ignore them. And this morning, I’ve got at least 5 of this.

Not only they are growing, they are WAY BIGGER than the seedlings that I used to have. At least 4 times bigger. I’m really not sure if this whole thing is right but damn it, they grow! Even the soil with the never-germinate-seeds from the seedling pot that I randomly threw in the garden bed had something came out of it. Way smaller than these but they are also growing.

And I start to realise. Perhaps the internet is not always right. Perhaps my dad is. At least until now.

Another Round of Hope.

My ‘Pak Choy‘. It’s growing so far so good. I’m giving it 10-15 minutes sun bathe every morning. Two other cabbages and another ‘Pak Choy‘ also came out this afternoon. The lettuce still refuses to germinate though.

I hope they grow well this round. :)

Hell Ya…

I spent the whole last night and this morning updating shipping info for my little business project, and also working like a snail on some of my work. I love my iBook but it’s just getting way too slow to load all those heavy creatures! When is my iMac coming back? When? When? When?

On the side note, up till this morning we have 8 of my little vege sprouted. Woohoo! I’m going to prepare for the no-dig-garden these few days. Hopefully we’ll be getting some homegrown goodness soon! ;)