Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus]

Watermelon is a kind of vine like plant which grow many trailers and climb everywhere. I collected seeds from a melon I bought from the market and managed to grow them in a pot. It took more than 1 month for it to grow little yellow flowers and eventually form tiny little fruit along the trailers. Some will grow and most will just dried up and fall off.

I managed to keep 2 melon growing for more than 2 months and most of the leaves started to turn yellow and brown. I assumed the melons are ready to be harvested.

No doubt the inner flesh is yellow same as the parent and it taste pretty sweet. Both are barely 3 kg but its an interesting experience growing melon around urban area with a pot.

Sugar Apple / Custard Apple [Annona squamosa]

This is my favourite fruit since I was a child, I really love it and its always sweet and creamy. Sugar apple or custard apple or locally its called ‘buah nona’ used to be a commonly found fruit at the market but not anymore. Now mostly imported from Thailand, Taiwan or Bangladesh only some grown locally which makes me wonder, how hard can it be to grow sugar apple ? I see a few of these tree around my neighbourhood and I am going to cultivate some and grow them. Simply by buying some to eat and throw the seeds into a pot and let the germination begin.

It took almost 1 week for the seeds to grow and transferred individually to a separate pot before I move them onto the ground. 3 months old plant look very little and I was told it takes years before they fruit. Lets wait and see.

This plant started to flower and fruit within 1 year, I was told it takes up to 3 years to fruit but those could be different types or mine is some sort of hybrid ?

Finally, my very first sugar apple grown at my little garden.

This is what inside looks like.

Sugar Cane [Saccharum]

There many types of sugar cane but around my area, we could either get the green or the red ones. The green ones are very juicy and usually they use a juicer and extract its sweet sugary content and drink it fresh while the red ones are tough and not juicy all. Well, why choose to grow the red ones then? The red ones are usually grown to make drinks too but its mixed with other herbs and chopped into tiny pieces, boiled for a few hours to extra its nutrient. So, if you wish to grow some, just get a stick of sugar cane and grow them in the ground.

I transfer the successfully cultivated pot to the ground 2 feet apart from each other. Add some compost and water them daily for a few months.

The sugar cane plant will grow and young plants will start to grow around the main stalk and slowly turn into a big bush. It is time to harvest when some of the cane are thick and tall, keep the young ones only take what you need and you have years of sugar cane supply.

Easy to care for and trim the leaves once a while to keep them neat and tidy.