Visitors

Visitors, you are welcome to our vegetable garden!

We have been very blessed to have so many people come to visit and encourage us.

Michelle brought her aunt when she was on watering duty one day. Her aunt who loves gardening wishes that she was staying in one of the nearby cabins so that she could work on the land. Already, she is looking for suitable seeds and plants for us. If only she was really staying in one of the cabins...

Michelle's Aunt posing with our fruiting Okra plant

Mei Lin who visited us 14th July 2012 wrote the following :

Life’s Happening Here!

I must, straight out, confess that I do not have ‘green fingers’ – in fact I am an ‘angel of death’ to plants, I have ‘killed’ even potted cactus plants.  Thus, I have never given a second thought about helping out at FGT’s Vegetable Garden.

However, when I received Chui Fang’s email invitation to come visit the Vegetable Garden, her blog dated 9 July 2012 piqued my interest.  The plants were growing - growing BIG, and the evidence were in the photos.  There was an air of excitement.  Hey, God is on the move there… I needed to go take a look at what God’s doing over there…

So after our 6.00am prayers on Saturday morning, Chui Fang invited us over to the garden.  “Yes, I will come visit the garden, but look see only ya…”, I obliged.  After a quick breakfast with the regular breakfast gang, and as promised, I dropped by at the vege patch.  There were already a number of people there hard at work.

Phui Yee proudly and enthusiastically gave me a grand tour of the patch - she first introduced me to the Thai Basil plants.  I plucked a leaf (with permission, of course) and smelt it – strong licorice-like smell.  Phui Yee tells me that these were different from the basil used for Italian cooking… “oh I see”…

The (current) star of the patch would be the okra plants, which were growing very well indeed.  Big luscious green leaves and lots of fruit buds, promising a bountiful harvest.  There were earlier attacks on the leaves by crickets and the likes, but the attacks have been successfully fended off using  natural insecticide – ground chilies and onions, sprayed over the plants. Interesting information, I learnt something new today... 

The spring onions have all sprung up and were ready to go.  The potato leaves will soon be ready for the dinner table too.  However, the Roselle plants weren’t quite ‘rosy’ yet, and the squat banana tree stood alone.

There was furious work going on at the far end; a growing army of pineapple plants were being assembled over there.     

At the end of the tour, there was, of course, the invitation to come join the jolly farmers in their labour of love on the land.  “Errr…. Sorry, not today folks.  Got to run soon…”.  But as a gesture of support to these earnest people of the land, what could a red-blooded charismatic prayer intercessor do? Pray lah!  So, I called upon our Heavenly Father and released a prayer of blessings, fruitfulness and protection over the land; may it yield 30, 60 and 100-fold in harvest!  Hallelujah! Life’s Happening Here!

We are glad to say that Mei Lin is now committed to FGT Green Fingers and started work on the land last Saturday, 4th August 2012. No more 'look see'. :) Welcome on board!

As this post is being written, we are glad to announce that our Roselle plants are budding.

Phui Yee had to do much to convince
Mei Lin to join us!

One Sunday morning, Lay Kheng decided to drop by and see for herself the plants that we are growing.

So excited was she, that she wanted to have a picture taken in the garden and commented:

"Good job by the Green Fingers! Am impressed with the variety of plants especially the extra huge lady's finger plant as well as the hard work which has been put in to prepare the land for planting. Keep up the good work."

While showing Lay Kheng around, Chin Chin joined us, also thrilled.

"I was green with envy for those of you with green fingers! Can't wait to sell vege at CAREmart..."

Well Chin Chin, we hope that we can meet the market demand. :)

Lay Kheng & Chin Chin with her adorable
girl & our Star Okra plants

Always glad for extra hands, we had the wonderful company of Yichieh and Eumelia.

"I hope I did not pull a vegetable plant instead..."

"Not only am I cute, I can work too!"

To those whom we did not mention, be assured that you are not forgotten. Thank you for coming and giving us your support in your own ways - praising us (we glow in compliments!), buying our produce, giving us seeds and seedlings etc... We appreciate you and please come again!