 Tuesday, September 22, 2009
It's been a long time. Since the last post, i had raised my vegetable beds, added charcoal, perlite, chicken dung and soya meal to them as promised and just yesterday, added some much needed furniture to the garden. (will definitely post pictures of this slight transformation.)
There had been fluctuations of fortune in my garden. My heirloom tomatoes aren't doing that great. In fact i just threw away most of them, including the black plums, because they riddled with diseases and not fruiting much. Only consolation is that i have just transplanted new tomato seedlings to my beds. This time i hope i do not repeat the same mistakes as i had done before and stick to these tried and error practices.
1) pince the top of tomato plants so they can grow sideways, producing more fruits. I always wonder how to pince but now i read that all i need to do is simply to cut using scissors. (but doesn't this means the plant still can grow taller?)
2) Leave only 3 to 4 suckers per plant.
3) Stake early.
4) More sun.
5) Spray weekly with neem oil and soap.
6) Fertilize heavily. More potassium pls!
Am now growing food crops like the 3 types of tomatoes, dino kale, white cucumber (only one left after the other one was savaged by my hens. Sigh...), lettuces (also mauled by birds i believed), heirloom eggplants, peas, sweet pepper, heirloom carrots, orachs and lemon.
Garbage enzyme really works! My plants became greener and healthier after using it. I need to start making my own. But 3 months is a long wait.
After the 3 ill fated Cameron roses, i became rather fanatic about collecting fragrance roses and now am a proud owner of 5 pots of roses. (just bought one beautiful pink rose at Ang Mo Kio nursery today.) I do need to be more vigilant about spraying them and fertilizing them, because they attract rsm and become rather straggly easily. Invested in the famous be-1 yesterday because i saw the great difference in the roses between added and non added. Great thing about it is that it's organic. :)
Hope to add on more colourful plants to the garden to create a more country style. Been hankering to create a natural trellis for the potage. Have to think how. Also, i need to create an enclosure for my hens because while i love them alot, they have a habit of tearing my beloved plants.) Lots of food for thoughts.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
It's been a long time. Since the last post, i had raised my vegetable beds, added charcoal, perlite, chicken dung and soya meal to them as promised and just yesterday, added some much needed furniture to the garden. (will definitely post pictures of this slight transformation.)
There had been fluctuations of fortune in my garden. My heirloom tomatoes aren't doing that great. In fact i just threw away most of them, including the black plums, because they riddled with diseases and not fruiting much. Only consolation is that i have just transplanted new tomato seedlings to my beds. This time i hope i do not repeat the same mistakes as i had done before and stick to these tried and error practices.
1) pince the top of tomato plants so they can grow sideways, producing more fruits. I always wonder how to pince but now i read that all i need to do is simply to cut using scissors. (but doesn't this means the plant still can grow taller?)
2) Leave only 3 to 4 suckers per plant.
3) Stake early.
4) More sun.
5) Spray weekly with neem oil and soap.
6) Fertilize heavily. More potassium pls!
Am now growing food crops like the 3 types of tomatoes, dino kale, white cucumber (only one left after the other one was savaged by my hens. Sigh...), lettuces (also mauled by birds i believed), heirloom eggplants, peas, sweet pepper, heirloom carrots, orachs and lemon.
Garbage enzyme really works! My plants became greener and healthier after using it. I need to start making my own. But 3 months is a long wait.
After the 3 ill fated Cameron roses, i became rather fanatic about collecting fragrance roses and now am a proud owner of 5 pots of roses. (just bought one beautiful pink rose at Ang Mo Kio nursery today.) I do need to be more vigilant about spraying them and fertilizing them, because they attract rsm and become rather straggly easily. Invested in the famous be-1 yesterday because i saw the great difference in the roses between added and non added. Great thing about it is that it's organic. :)
Hope to add on more colourful plants to the garden to create a more country style. Been hankering to create a natural trellis for the potage. Have to think how. Also, i need to create an enclosure for my hens because while i love them alot, they have a habit of tearing my beloved plants.) Lots of food for thoughts.
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I am an inexperienced but passionate gardener.
My huggest project currently is to spruce up and get my very old and neglected garden into shape.
So bear with me while i ramble about my endeavors and waxing lyricals about plants.
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All Plants
Heiroom tomatoes
White Rabbit (dead)
Purple Plums (Kelmund; ganna diseases threw away)
Brain (dead)
Matt Wild Cherry (s)
Fantome du lao (s)
Tim Black Ruffles (s)
Hartman Yellow Gooseberry (yellowing but produced 2 fruits so far)
Transparent (did not germinated)
Other Vege and fruits
Cameron Highland Lemon Tree
Headless Kailan (Karen; ganna gall fungi)
Chives (Maeyi)
Mango tree
Citrus
Mulberry (Dead: Karen)
Common Eggplant (dead)
Heirloom Eggplants (s)
Belimbing
Elephant Yam (I think)
Dwarf Banana (Neighbour)
Butter Dwarf Bean Rocbrun (germinating again, always attacked by snails)
Gerkin Cucumber (did not germinated)
Chiko Burdock (always do not germinate)
Purple Sweet Potato (World Farm)
Earth Ginseng (Kelmund)
Salad Burnett (dead)
Garden Lettuces (g)
Lettuces (not that healthy)
Nai You Pak Choy (harvested)
Leek (Disappeared)
White heirloom carrots (s)
Dinosaur Kales (s)
Sweet pepper (s)
Heirloom Cucumbers (s)
Musk Orkra (mauled by dunno what, super depressing)
Herbs
Oregano (Sky)
Stevia (dead)
Bay (s)
Lemon Balm (Hanaabi and Appeceive)
Chocolate Mint (Sky)
Orange Mint (HL/Sky)chao da
Swiss Mint (Sky)
Kala Mint (Patrick)
Sweet Basil (Maeyi)
Lemon Grass (chao da)
Curry Plant (Kelmund's Nice neighbour)
Lemon plant (Kelmund's nice neighbour)
Creeping Rosemary
Gotu Kola (Patrick)
Unidentified Basil (HL)
Unidentified Basil (Karen)
Cat Whiskers (Sasa)
Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula multifida (dead)
Chamomile (chao da)
German chamomile (germinating)
Dill (ran its course)
Valerian (did not germinate)
Marigold (dead)
Milk Thistle (s)
Bee Balm (did not germinate!)
Thyme (varigated)
Flowers
Sunflowers (s: Patrick)
Balsam (s: Abby)
Petunia (purple; gorgeous)
Moon vine (g)
Gardenia (repotted)
Butterfly Bush (g)
Highland Roses (yellow, red and pink) all chao da, umm.. one still hanging by a thread.
Roses ("Double delight", "Prosperity" (Maggie), "7 sisters", 2 unidentified)
Brunfelsia Americana (always ganna some sort of pests)
Creeping Murraya (not flowering)
Hydrangea (not flowering)
Chrysanthemums (produced buds but never flower)
Osmanthus (dried out)
Jasmine doubled petaled (s)
Bougainvillea
Shui Mei
Banana Magnolia
Epicia (Neighbour)
Coleus
4 o' clock (Yong kuan)
Brugmansia (Islaverde)
Datura (Lam Wk)
Others
Bamboo
Bamboo orchid (Yong kuan)
Succulent (Yong Kuan)
Cotton Plant (Bugman)
Lady of the night orchid (Digitalgate)
2 other unidentified fragrant orchid (Digitalgate)
1 unidentified orchid (Sasa)
Purple Velvet (Talos)
Neem (Angel/ Dead, didn't root)
g: Growing
s: Seedlings
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Loves fragrant plants, edibles and herbs.
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