Updates from my Rooftop Container Garden, August 2016

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!

 

Red Amaryllis

The Amaryllis from a friend has finally bloomed. 

Now we know it's a red amaryllis!! Curriosity quenched! :-)

Please enjoy its beauty as captured by my eyes. 

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Hope you all have a great and productive week!

God bless...

 

New Addition to My Rooftop Container Garden 2015

Life has been hectic these couple of months. I am having several translation projects and ministries at church. My mind is crowded that it's hard for me to  just relax and let ideas to flow out, though I have some posts planned but not yet written down. Allow me to just briefly share some new addition to my rooftop container garden...

Chokanan Mango

Last month, I bought a small grafted Chokanan tree, a variety of Thai Mango(also found in Bangladesh, Pakistan & India). Earlier I have already had Nam Dok Mai(some call it 'Lok Mai') mango tree, that is fruiting now the third time this year. This new tree is only $1.20. I have re-potted it but still to a 4 gallon container and I planned to let it grow for a while, before re-potting it to its final container.

This is a green 'Honey' Bell fruit tree

At the same time I also bought this Honey Bell Fruit grafted tree. This one is less than US$ 1. This one is the green variety. It's a local cultivated variety.

Below are orange seedlings I planted by seed. These are of the Australian orange variety I bought from the supermarket. They need to be re-potted soon too, as orange trees usually have a ferocious appetite.

Remember the Nam Dok Mai seedling I planted from seed? Yes, this is how it looks now. And yes, I need to re-pot this one a.s.a.p too! And I also need to weed my plants, they have overgrown! Grrr...

What's Bloomin' in My Garden