What do we see when we step into our garden? A sea of weeds... For the past few weeks, we had to battle with them and then had to miss weeding on some Saturdays because of the rain. There's going to be a change this 2013. We are going to re-work the land. We will overcome the weeds!
So what's been happening so far, since we last posted? Spirits have been low, seeing our hardwork of digging is now back to square one due to the weeds. Some of our young plants either died from the flooding or attacked by snails, but like in our life, with the bad things that are happening, there's also the good.
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| Pretty four-angled bean flowers |
These four-angled bean plants have been saved by Uncle Fah Shin. They were growing in a plot of bed that was frequently flooded during the monsoon season and some of the plants growing along side them have already perished. These were transplanted to a better bed when they were about 6-8 weeks old. A few weeks later, they started to flower. Now we are waiting for the beans to emerge.
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| New brinjal plants protected by bicycle tyres. |
We had some brinjals planted 2 months ago, but the snails came and ate around the stems. Even though the plants grew, they were not healthy, and we had to discard them. The picture above shows a new brinjal plant, one of the 5 that we recently planted into the ground 3 weeks ago. They have begun to flower.
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| Interesting looking luffa flower. |
This pretty flower is from the Luffa/Loofah plant. Planted about 3 months ago, survived the monsoon and the snails! We hope to see many loofahs hanging around soon.
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| The ripen Bhut Jolokias |
The Bhut Jolokias! Now the 2nd hottest chili in the world. Out to heat your body to the highest degree! As we don't use conventional pesticides in our garden, many of these have been attacked by pests. We even saw snails hanging on to them while they were feasting on these flesh, leaving gaping holes on the fruit. Lesson learnt - snails probably can't detect spiciness.
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| Wonder how many more combs it will produce.. |
9 months since we planted this banana tree, and oh, the joy to see it fruiting! Hopefully there are no monkeys around to plunder this bunch! Thanks to this lovely bunch of green bananas that will yellow eventually, our spirits are up again! 2013 - This will be a year we will overcome the obstacles in this garden.
