Long Beans

My harvest of long beans, from two plants, which are not producing anymore, so I have pulled them out, and replace with 8 new seedlings! Two plants are not enough, to get more harvest, grow more plants! 😉
I  am looking forward to the next harvest, hoping for more long beans!

Happy Gardening !

Why!!!

First of all, I would like to apologize for not visiting all your blogs these few weeks! I'm not being a very good bloggie friend! I'm ashamed to admit that I am hiding myself in self-pity as far as my garden is concerned. I am really disappointed at how my plants turned out. Two of my favourite plants that was growing really well, suddenly decided to stop growing, for whatever reasons, I do not know.

Two Long Beans plants, back in May

Beautiful, long beans growing 

I only managed to harvest about a dozen beans before....

Both plants dried up!  Sudden, isn't it?
I was so disappointed and upset that it took me two weeks later before I could bring myself to clear this!
 : o(

The place is now vacant, waiting for the next occupant! It was so disappointing, plants do die in the end, but I only had about a dozen beans! Strange isn't it? 

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Next, my prized tomatoes, the one plant (besides chilli)  that I have never succeeded in growing until now!

I think these tomatoes are just beautiful! Their shape is long and I do not know the name of this tomato.
I just planted the seeds from some cherry tomatoes that I ate.

These tomaotes are really juicy, crunchy and sweet, really delicious! These are from one plant, which only yields about two dozen tomatoes. The plant is in the "process" of drying up now! This plant is in a pot at my back kitchen garden. Originally, I have six of these plants, five of which I planted in pots at my front garden, have all wilted and died after hundreds of flowers, but no fruits!

The thought about planting these tomatoes again really drains me out! These plants are huge and need lots of space and supports. So I'll be trying some other varieties which my sister gave me (she bought it from UK). which will not need any supports and suitable for container growing. Crossing my fingers that these will germinate! Otherwise, I'll just keep on growing kangkung and spring onions, at least I have constant supply from these two faithful veggies!

Happy Gardening!

Long Bean, Harvest

I harvested only ONE long bean today!

 The first long bean from the plant

 The second long bean, should be ready to be harvested in about two days time.

This is the fourth and fifth beans, probably will harvest in about three days time. 

 More flowers growing at the top of the beans!

Could not help measuring the first bean.... 

a beautiful 20-inches long! 

Long bean, the product from this beautiful flower, amazing, isn't it?

Spotted a few more flowers, not as many as I had hoped, but it makes me happy!

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 !

Long Beans, where are you?

My Long Bean plants are growing very lush and healthy.....but where are the flowers?

Photo taken on 17/03

Photo taken this morning

I have two of these planted in the ground near my belimbing tree, supported by the recycle TV antenna. These plants are already four months old and they are not showing any signs of flowering yet! According to my neighbour's friend, who used to grow lots of long beans, I should prune the leaves to make way for the flowers, and what shall I do with the leaves, boil it in soup! My neighbour told me that the leaves can be cooked in ikan bilis soup, and it is very tasty. Have any of you tried eating the leaves before? I never knew the leaves can be eaten! Did a search from the net, and found out that the young and tender stems and leaves can be eaten. So I cut some leaves this morning and cook it in some ikan bilis soup, surprisingly it is quite good, taste a little bit like our local spinach. The young and tender leaves are nice, but the big ones are tough. This is just a trial, as I was very curious how it will taste like! Will be cooking it again when I have time to prune the leaves these few days. 

Found a leech under one of the leaves and ....

a couple of snails, no wonder they love to eat the leaves, the young and tender leaves tastes good!

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Harvested more spring onions today!

Harvested half a kilo of spring onions, 528gm! And this is just from one container, I have two more containers that I will harvest soon! This is definitely my favourite veggie to plant!