I'm really sorry for not giving updates on my rooftop container garden for quite sometime. Honestly, this year I don't plant much. I've been busy these several months setting up an online bakery, which bake by order, beside my part time translating job.
Maybe I'll just take you to stroll around my garden. It'll be done in less than 5 minutes! :-)
Do you recognize the plant on the left? Well, yes it's a Mulberry. A church friend gave it to me last March when she moved to another island after getting married to one our our church fellow. So, she happened to hand me this Mulberry plant, some peppermint plants, a couple of red Amaryllis tubers, a small pot of lemongrass and also a small DIY pot(made of mineral bottle) of parsley.
The second pictures is the result of my laziness. I took me forever before I repotted it. And since the weather was not very friendly in the first semester, the Mulberry plant was at the brink of death.. I guess it was a combination of constant drought and malnourished.
The leaves finally turned yellow and burnt.
And I felt very...very soorryyy.........!
So one day I decided to act. I trimmed it first and I just repotted it to a 4-gallon container but only within days, I can see new shoots and fruit... yesss .... FRUIT!! Can you see it right in the middle of the leaves? Amazing isn't it??!
The characteristic of this plant is growing fast when it's still young but will soon slow down. Today, the plant is only this tall but I can find quite many fruit. I heard, it's very easy to encourage it to set fruit. Just trim it and it will react soon.
I harvested one today, and it tastes sweet!
My other plants that sets fruit this year is my Kaffir Lime!!
I have harvested at least half a dozen of these, yet I haven't used it yet... I'm not really using this produce except to make Indonesian Salad with peanut sauce. But so far I haven't made any...
My Soursop tree has finally set male flowers after about a year or so... but I haven't managed to harvest the pollen for future hand pollination. I haven't been successful yet since I was too lazy to battle the heat of the scorching sun at noon or late morning.
This is the Nam Dok Mai or Lok Mai mango tree that I planted by seed. I don't remember how old it is, maybe around a year or maybe more..
My Arum Manis is also fruiting. Last year it bore fruit for 3 consecutive time but then it rest for almost 4-5 months before it gained new energy to starting bearing fruit again.
My Nam Dok Mai is also setting flowers and fruit.
This one is my Hone Bell Fruit. It's not yet setting flowers.
Sadly for this yellow tomato must succumb to Fusarium wilt disease though it had set flowers!!
I missed harvesting tomatoes!! I will plant some soon!
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