A Kangkung Harvest

These kangkung was harvested a few weeks ago. I grew these Kangkung from seeds and they are really fast growing veggie. Harvested them in less than 60 days from date of sowing. Really easy to grow, as long as the soil is always damp, they will be happy.

Quite a fair amount from one pot of container! And I thought that growing them in one container would not be enough! 

                                       Makes a plateful of stir-fry for our dinner. Tender and tasty! Yum!

Happy Gardening !

Some harvest!

Weather has been extremely hot this past week. Other than frequent watering of the plants, did not do much gardening lately. Some of my harvest the past week :

Kangkung. The last batch. I'm using the containers for carrots, radish and sweet peas. Due to lack of space, I need to rotate my plants. Hopefully the new plants will grow well, as I do not have much luck with carrots at all! Keeping my fingers crossed! 

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My 2nd harvest of Malabar spinach

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Sweet Basil

Harvested the leaves for a pasta dish.

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Belimbing, the first fruits after I pruned the tree about 8 months ago.

These belimbing goes into my sambal tumis ikan bilis with hard-boiled eggs.

A Visitor...and Some Harvests

I have a very cocky visitor a couple of weeks ago. This cockerel came from nowhere, just out of the blue, I saw it at my backyard, never seen it before! It "stayed" over at my backyard about a week and my neighbour's son caught it, brought it to somewhere else and have not seen it since. Now why would he do that?

This cockerel does not like cats! I have seen it chased away the cats from my backyard a couple of times, much to my delight! The cats ran with their tails between their legs!!!  Whenever the cats came near, it will chase them away! Remember, my neighbour who has eight cats that was annoying me? Her son does not like what this cockerel is doing to his beloved cats, and the cockerel even poo over at their back yard, sounds familiar, right? 

One afternoon while I was in my kitchen, I saw her son chased after the cockerel and finally managed to catch it. He carried it away (I do not know where), and this cockerel has not been seen since. Should I get a cockerel and rear it at my back yard? ....  hmmm   :)  The cats do not poo as often as before, because I covered my unused pots, but the smell from their backyard is yucks! Two of my neighbours have complained about the stench, but what can we do?... sigh! Perhaps we should do exactly what he did to the cockerel? 

Give him a taste of his own medicine? ... just a thought!

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Time for some harvest :

Harvested all the spring onions. Planted some new ones again. 

Garlic greens! I planted some garlic bulbs for the greens. Since it was successful, I have sowed another two pots of bulbs. Looking forward for the greens to use in my cooking. The ones above, I used them for my omelette. I will try to leave a few plants and see whether can I actually get any garlic bulbs from them, which I really doubt so. My main purpose is actually for the greens. 

Harvested my kangkung, goes into my Nasi Goreng Kampung! 

Happy Gardening!

Long Beans Debut!

My Long Beans Plant finally decided to flower!

Found about half a dozen flowers a few days ago!

They bloomed very prettily and most of them dropped off, where are the beans?

Only found one so far! 

Pot of kangkung

Ladies Fingers (Okra)

My harvest :  Kangkung, Spring Onions, Chives and Ladies Fingers

I have harvested a total of 2.2kg of spring onions from a packet of sprouted onions bought for only less than RM1.00! Wow! Definitely my favourite veggie, my house's favourite!

Happy Gardening !

My Little Harvest

My front garden is  starting to look like a vegetable garden, that's what my hubby said today. That is nice actually! The only veggie at the moment are the spring onions, kangkung and a few pots of cherry tomatoes.

These are some spring onions which I planted more than two weeks ago. I have already harvested some, and some of the smaller ones,  I planted just a few days ago.

 Another two pots of spring onions which I planted about a week ago, and a pot of kangkung.

Some kangkung which I planted today, look at the snail already enjoying the veggies!

My little harvest !

 Some spring onions and parsley harvested yesterday. 

 My first cute little radish, it is so tiny! After months of growing, that's all there is! Hopefully the new batch will fare better!

Harvested more spring onions and some kangkung today. 

I love growing spring onions, they are extremely easy to grow and I use them frequently in my kitchen. There are more growing at my front garden. Thanks to Tesco again, I bought the sprouted onions at a bargain and now they are rewarding me with lovely greens. Gave some fresh spring onions to a friend in my neighbourhood and she is requesting me to get some sprouted onions for her when I'm at Tesco the next time! She is excited at growing her own spring onions now!

The carrots and broccoli seeds which I sowed have already sprouted and I saw some very tiny seedlings of the celery seeds growing too. I'm waiting for these seedlings to grow a little bigger before I could transfer them to their new veggie bed, at least not for another two weeks or so.  

Happy Gardening !