Some harvest this week

Harvested these few veggies from my small potted garden this week :

 The long bitter gourd...the first fruit

 It is not very big, but of a medium size

 Kailan

Okra and egg plant

Happy Gardening !

Another Kai Lan Harvest

Another round of harvest from my Kai Lan veggies.

Leaves are huge, but they are young and tender. You will know by touching the leaves. They are firm and soft to the touch. Time to harvest!

Harvested most of the leaves, leaving the Kai Lan plants still in the containers, hopefully they will grow more leaves very soon.

Stir-fried Kai Lan for dinner.

Happy Gardening !

Kai Lan

I sowed some Kai Lan seeds a few weeks ago, and tiny seedlings began to appear on the third day. I guess I sowed too many seeds, and got to thin out the seedlings as they are very close together. The packet says it is the Hong Kong Kai Lan variety.

at 21 days

I transferred some of the seedlings to this container.

 32 days

This is the container which I sowed the seeds in. After I thin out  and transferred most of the seedlings, there are 8 left in their original place. One later wilted.

38 days

They were growing rather slow at first..

 45 days - harvest day! 

in just a space of one week later, they really grew!

The leaves are huge, but I can tell by touching the leaves and the stems, they are young and firm, just right for picking! I could leave them a little longer and let them grew a little more, but I was really impatient to taste my kailan! :)

My kailan harvest. 

I harvested them this evening and these are stir-fried with lots of garlic, so good! Very tasty. I can taste the difference from the ones bought from the market, homegrown is so much yummier. The leaves and stems are young and tender. I should grow more of these! 

The rest of the kailan are rather slow in growing, and they are from the same batch of seeds that I sowed 45 days ago! I guess that this container did not get the morning sun, as the other container did. I placed them in different areas at my front porch, due to space limitation. This container only gets the mid-morning to late afternoon sun. I need to reorganize the positions of my vegetable containers, but it is a headache with so limited space.

I cut the stems a few inches from the base. The purplish part close to the soil, is the hard and woody stem, the green part above it, the young and tender stem. Hopefully there will be new side shoots soon. Keeping my fingers crossed.

My spring onions, which I have fully harvested last week. Photo was taken weeks earlier. Cannot get enough of these, I love spring onions! Of course, there's another new batch growing! :)

Happy Gardening !

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