The 3 gingers

Let me welcome the three gingers..I mean they came from the same ginger family. The galangal, tumeric and the ginger itself.

The ginger family

Tumeric plant, the slowest growth amongst all. Not sure why..

Galangal Plant, Blue ginger.

The ginger

More eggplants!

Did I tell you that I have another eggplant? It's a round type of eggplant. And it's fruiting! yeah :)

I know I should move it to a bigger pot...

close-up picture of the fruit.

My first Sunflower

As the title suggests, this will be my first attempt in growing sunflower..I'm very excited :)

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San Marzano tomato

I am definately excited about this.. :)

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Tumeric plant

New addition to my garden :)

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Long bean

Hi All! It's been months since my last update. I have been growing long bean (Vigna unguiculata ). They grow very fast and seems to like the sun. Here are some of the photos.

The ants seem to like the flower.

It is long..

Zebra Tomato?

Remember my past posting on tomato? It has begin to produce fruits! Surprisingly, when I look at the fruit it has several dark green patches on it. I was thinking this could be the zebra tomato as I recalled I scattered some zebra tomato seeds sometimes back. I will confirm again the type of the tomato as they grow bigger.


Zebra tomato? Do let me know if you happen to know the variety type

Finally a female flower

Garden Update...everything is doing fine except my bean and my potato plant.

Lately the cantaloupe/rockmelon plant has been producing plenty of male flowers, but not a single female flower. To my surprise today, I found a female flower!

For your information plants in the melon-family produce each individual male and female reproductive system. A female flower has bump at the back of the flower, while male flower does not have. With the help from pollinators like bees, pollen from the male flower will be transferred to the female flower. If the female flower is pollinated succesfully,it will begin to produce fruit.

Once the female flower blooms, I will have to hand-pollinate the flower by myself as I don't see any pollinators around.


A female flower has a bump the back of the flower which will
swell into fruit if pollination is successfull.

Another Tomato?

I think this time round it's going to be a successful one. I never overwater the plant and when it rains I will move it somewhere. It looks happy with the 7-7-10 organic fertilizer that I've been feeding it with. And another good news is that, the sun is now back in the balcony. The tomato would definately love that! Cheers...

Too much Nitrogen?

close-up of tomato flowers...

First Beet root

Many thanks to my mother and my sis-in-law who helped me to buy some beet root seeds from Australia. The seed is from a well-known australian seed company called Yates (www.yates.com.au). It sells many varieties of seeds catalog. I am very pleased with the germination rate and the quality of the seeds. This is my first attempt at growing beet root , so wish me luck!

It fell once due to strong wind. Hopefully it is ok now.


I am very satisfied with the quality of the seeds and the brand.

Solo eggplant

Quick update. Definately I like this. :)

100% completely organic...

Seeing double?

This is what will happen if you don't label your seedlings. A few weeks back I planted some rockmelon (cantaloupe) and cucumber seeds....and I didn't label them. Now I am scratching my head to find out which is cucumber and which is rockmelon plant as they look the same! I guess I will have to wait until their fruits form.

I have the feeling that the one of the left is cucumber and the one on the right is rockmelon. Moral of the story: label your plants, especially when you grow plants from the melon-family.

cucumber? rockmelon?

Shanghai Bok Choy Update

Wishing you a happy new year 2011!

I am just updating on the Shanghai Bok Choy. They are growing nicely in the container, but the spacing is just too cramp!

Bokchoy and onions