Showing posts with label Radish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Radish. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 July 2012

Container Garden - An Update

The corn in pots!

Radish!

The garden!

The cherry tomato tree!
A harvest of red okras, cherry tomatoes, red spinach and radishes!

Siu Pak Choy, Choy Sum & Nai Pak harvest!
Corn!
Kangkung!
Another corn growing!
Pumpkin!
1st time growing Zinnia from seeds!
1st corn harvested!
This beautiful butterfly dropped by for some nectar!
It noticed me and stared at the camera!
Soil-less gardening in the kitchen! Garlic chives!
Yummy cherry tomatoes!
Cherry tomatoes and okras!


Thursday, 5 July 2012

Container Garden - An Update

The garden has been drawing all sorts of lovely bugs to it. There were a few which I have not seen before. And they are amazing!!!

The familiar Periwinkle eater!
This little one fell out of nowhere as I was watering the plants and landed right next to my feet! Imagine if it had plopped on my head! Eeeeeee.....
Another beautiful golden, brown butterfly
This bug is covered in a transparent circle film! I have never seen this bug before!

Mating cucumber bugs doing the gravity-defying-dance!

The red dragonfly
What a beautiful flower! I think it mutated very beautifully!
The dragonfly which had completed its lifespan.
Both zucchini plants died as the cucumber bugs spread the bacteria wilt to them. :( I have never had luck with cucumbers and zucchinis.
The cherry tomatoes are doing extremely well!


Pak Choy in pots!
Pumpkin seedlings
Radish!

The corn plants and okras.
Red Periwinkle grown from seeds!
Periwinkles!
Sunflower seedlings
The Yellow-Banded Wasp Moths Mating!
The lemon tree is growing again after being ill for awhile. It was dropping leaves and growth was stunted. 
This caterpillar was attacking the lemon tree! It ate and ate and ate the leaves and strung webs around the leaves. A pest!!!
The beautiful Allamanda!



Monday, 12 December 2011

The Container Garden - An Update

My one-year-old lemon tree has been very out of shape. I trimmed it and it looks VERY neat now!

My 1 year-old lemon tree!
Some of the cherry tomatoes
The lone sweet corn!
I sowed six corn seeds but only two sprouted. And one of them died after sprouting. The weather was just too wet. Only this survived. I hope it is sweet.

A new pot of Periwinkle!
The ONLY red spinach! The rest of the seedlings died from the constant downpour.
Not very healthy looking vegetables due to the excessive downpour everyday.
The baby radish! 
All 5 baby radishes. They were VERY tiny.
3rd harvest of kangkung
The periwinkle seeds fell into the bougainvillea pot, sprouted and now is blooming very well!
They come in droves everyday! Haha... Escargot?
I had to harvest them while they were still green as fruit flies were all over the place! I placed them in a container and let them ripen at room temperature. 
More are turning yellow
The ripened tomatoes!
The cherry tomatoes were attacked by the sparrows!
More tomatoes and a mini capsicum!
The Oleander Hawk Caterpillars are back! 
A Swallowtail butterfly laying an egg on my baby orange tree
This is a WEED, but it has beautiful, tiny yellow flowers. Does anybody know its name?

Allamanda flowers in full bloom (buttercups)
White Japanese Rose
One of the last harvest
I've chopped down all the okra, tomatoes, capsicums and chilli plants as they have all caught viral diseases and fungus infections due to the excessive rain every day. I added compost to all the soils and am PATIENTLY waiting for the rainy weather to be over. Hopefully next year will be a greater year where the vegetable harvest is concerned! :)