My Last Update From This Little Garden....

I am moving to my new place this coming Sunday......Therefore, this is going to be my last update for the time being...I am going to miss this place and will definitely miss this tiny garden.....Will be back as soon as i could....InsyaAllah....Happy Gardening to my fellow gardening bloggers! :)

S.O.S!!! I Need an ID for This...

Dear fellow gardening bloggers/gardening enthusiasts/blog readers,

Could any of you help me to identify this plant, please? Thanks in advance for your help....:)

****UPDATE**** 

The Confederate Rose is a member of the Malvaceae  family (along with all the common Hibiscus plants, Althea, Cotton plant, Okra, etc). They all have the distinctive large flower.

The Confederate Rose is also known as cotton flower, cotton rosemallow, rose cotton. The botanical name mutabilis means ‘variable’ and probably relates to the most significant feature of this plant: that the flowers change color.

You can read here for more info :)

The Confederate Rose 

Wordless Wednesday ~ Lola The Kitten & Nenel The Gardener... :P

 

Friday Bloom ~ Zinnia

Zinnia ~ vibrant color, but with smaller blooms...the pot is too small i guess...

"Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get." 

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Fruiting Cherry Tomatoes and Mulberry...

My first mulberry..

Had one for breakfast this morning..not my first time growing tomatoes, but this is the first cherry tomato from last year's batch....

Cherry Tomato

“Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.” ― Andy Couturier

The Joy Of Gardening ~ My Garden Update...

Top : Betik (Papaya)
Bottom : Cili Marble ( Marble Chilli)

Cherry Tomatoes

Top : Zinnia
Bottom : Malabar Spinach, Kangkung (Water Spinach) & Sawi (Pak Choy) berlubang :P

Top : Pegaga (Pennywort)
Bottom : Pandan (Screwpine) , Kari (Curry) & Serai (Lemongrass)

Top : Lemon, Okra,Daun 7 Bilah (Chat Sim Chan /Pereskia sacharosa/saecnarosa)
Bottom : Belimbing Buluh (Averrhoa bilimbi (commonly known as bilimbi, cucumber tree, or tree sorrel))

All About Root ~ Growing Radish & Turmeric in Containers..

Close up sikit! :P

This morning's harvest : My first experience in growing radish...A deformed Cherry Belle radish ( Cherry Belle's supposed to be round in shape.....or was it a wrongly labelled French Breakfast variety? Saja nak sedapkan hati LOL I dunno.....but I think I pulled it off the ground maybe a lil bit too late...:)

Yesterday's harvest : Turmeric...I've grown a few pots for just in case it didn't survive and end up with a few pots of turmeric in the garden :)

"In plants, the ends of the roots and shoots are always juvenile, always growing, always babies." 
~Peter H. Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Growing Cherry Tomatoes In Containers ~ Finally!

Finally bearing some tomatoes after a couple of weeks of TLC, shaking & wiggling the tomato branches LOL :P

Seems like no bumble bees were around to assist in pollinating them...hmm...

"Tomatoes, as well as other members of the Solanaceae require a special kind of pollination to achieve proper fruit set. This form of pollination is known as "buzz pollination". Buzz pollination is accomplished by Bumblebees (Bombus), by gripping the flower with their legs and vibrating their flight muscles, honeybees (Apis) are incapable of doing this. In small gardens, bumblebee populations can be insufficient to properly pollinate tomatoes and related plants. Here's how to buzz pollinate your plants to produce larger fruits."
Quoted from  Instructables : Pollinating Tomatoes.


"Whatever the deal is, you can actually help your tomato plant set more fruit this season by showing it some tactile love.  You just take the flowering branches and give them a gentile shake. The pollen will drop from the stamen of the flower onto the pistil.  

There's no magic number of times you should shake your tomato plants; you just sort of wing it. Gardeners usually do it two or three times a day to ensure good pollination. Left alone, the wind would shake the blossoms, as would the fluttering of bees' wings. But, gardeners everywhere swear that they harvest higher fruit yields with this simple technique."
Quoted from : Vegetable Gardener's Blog : Help Pollinate Your Tomato Plants

"You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling." -Dan Buettner

Monday Bloom ~ Zinnia & Marigold..

http://www.designgreenindia.com/2013/12/best-tips-for-growing-zinnia-at-home.html

"... And though I garden in my leisure time, I have never considered gardening a leisurely activity.... Gardening isn't for sissies or for legendary fashion mavens. And gardening isn't something you do because you don't have anything else to do.... " ~ Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun, January 3, 2009

p/s : I'm moving to a new place next year...gonna be really busy packing stuffs....so sad... i think i need to leave some of these plants behind.... :(

HAPPY NEW YEAR & HAPPY GARDENING, FELLOW BLOGGERS & BLOG READERS! :)

Monday Bloom ~ Cherry Tomato

I was out of town for a few days...Glad to come back home & get to see this....Alhamdulillah....:)

Just wanna share some articles and videos worth reading and watching for your tomato crop. Normally, i would just let nature take its course...:)

http://www.vegetablegardener.com/item/8433/help-pollinate-your-tomato-plants

http://www.instructables.com/id/Pollinating-Tomatoes/

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/tomato/pollinate-tomatoes.htm

http://pollinator.com/self_pollinating_tomato.htm

http://pollinator.com/tomato.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueCLH3u7vM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqX_-BuCe10

"I don't care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There's something about it that's different than a tomato you can buy. It's a great thing." -Tom Vilsack

Friday Bloom..

More marigold update...and maybe many more to come...LOL :P

I did't realize i had 2 colors of marigold in the garden..I thought all of them are orange marigold.. The size of the orange marigold plant is obviously larger & taller... My favorite is the yellow ones. But i'm grateful to have both blooming in the garden...:)

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
~Abraham Lincoln

Monday Bloom ~ Marigold Lagi...

"Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant." ~Goethe

Wordless Friday ~ Watching And Waiting For My First Marigold Bloom....Sabarlah Cik Sabariahhhh...

Blooming Soon ~ Cherry Tomatoes...

Cherry tomatoes are going to bloom soon,in the garden.....InsyaAllah.......Alhamdulillah...:)

"I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy." - Anthony Bourdain 

I'm Not Going Wordless This Wednesday ~ Growing Dragon Fruit In Pots...

Experimenting again....It's amazing to see how some people are really successful in growing dragon fruit in pots. Got some cuttings from my friend. Tunggu punya tunggu punya tunggu akhirnya yang satu ni tumbuh tanduk kiri kanan! :P  Took me almost 2 months (or maybe almost 3? Can't remember the exact date when i acquire these cuttings) to grow some new buds! So, as for now, i'm gonna adapt with the wait & see approach with this particular one....hmm...

Hopefully, it will grow into something like this someday......insyaAllah..aamiinn...

photo source : Medic Herbal Blogspot

"Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts."~Anonymous

Padayappa.....Fayafa......Papaya....

Then...(photo dated 12/11/2013)

Now..(photo dated 30/11/2013)

Betik Sekaki....Grown from seeds bought from tanamsendiri.com...In my case,the growth is a bit slow in my garden..I need to get a bigger pot.....But it grows wayyyyy faster on the ground....you can read blog Kak Puteri Purnama for how it's growing beautifully & bountifully in her garden...:)

"Gardening is something you learn by doing - and by making mistakes.... Like cooking, gardening is a constant process of experimentation, repeating the successes and throwing out the failures.... "

~Carol Stocker, "Stuff Happens," Boston Globe Magazine, 4/13/03

Accidental Malabar Spinach....

Found this malabar spinach's seedling last 2 weeks, growing in between of my rosemary and indian borage plant given by a dear friend, and decided to keep it. Ignore the berlubang stock pot :P I wonder why it's called spinach when it's not even in da same family with spinach....Can't wait to try this. According to my friend, she would normally stir fry this. Note to self : taste a bit like mud! LOL :P Thinking of putting a lot of kicap when i wanna fry this lovely looking veggie. Happy Gardening, fellow gardening bloggers! :)

In plants, the ends of the roots and shoots are always juvenile, always growing, always babies. 
~Peter H. Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Growing Marigold Flower In Container....

My first marigold flower bud...Grown in container from seeds...:)

Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.  ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY ~ MICRO GREENS : GROWING MUNG BEAN SPROUTS IN A STOCK POT.....

Monday Bloom ~ Misai Kucing..... Misai Melintang....:-P

"Orthosiphon stamineus is a traditional herb that is widely grown in tropical areas. It is also known as Orthosiphon aristatus. The plant can be distinguished by its white or purple colored flowers that resembles cat whiskers. The herb is popularly known as Java tea. It is also commonly referred as "Misai Kucing" which means cat whiskers. O. stamineus is used widely in the form of herbal tea among the South East Asian population .[citation needed] Java tea was possibly introduced to the West in the early 20th century. The brewing of Java tea is similar to that for other teas. It is soaked in hot boiling water for about three minutes, and honey or milk is then added. It can be easily prepared as garden tea from the dried leaves." 
- Source : Wikipedia

“Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.” 
- Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education