Old cucumber, thats what we call it here and some think its simply ordinary cucumber we have and left to aged thus called old cucumber. This is best or most famous used locally to boil soup and the plants looks like cucumber plant. This was grown from my compost bin and I sort of let it be for a few weeks and it managed to produce a few cucumber.
Cameron highland, one of Malaysia’s biggest highland vegetable farm which is highly controversial due to the method and land used for massive commercial farming while some claims they are organic, some claims they are pesticide free and much more. Just showing you some of the farms here and not debating on their code of conduct which you can read more online. This highland takes 4 hours drive from the capital city, KL and this little place has massive farmland which supplies nearby cities and towns their daily fresh produce.
Big red strawberry farm is partially a tourist spot and they do farm strawberries for sale and some vegetables too. All farmed in tiny pots and in hydroponic system with direct feeding tubes system. The strawberries smells great but its sour, probably only good to be cooked with syrup or made into desserts.
Most of us who tried this bright red drink which taste like berry would not believe it came from this dried hibiscus flower called roselle. Its very easy to grow, just get one of the fruit and dry it to harvest the seed. It takes a few months to grow up to 1 meter or more which the entire plant will be filled with flowers. The fruit will form and you can harvest it and dry it. The dried flower can be kept for years and you can make drinks by boiling it in water which re-hydrate it and edible too.
It has been pretty warm and sunny since June towards July, most of my sugar apple been flowering and fruiting with an average 10 to 15 fruits per tree. Its growing healthy and most had reached 3 to 5 meter height. Sugar apple is hard to find in the market lately, this is one sweet fruit and most bird and squirrel come daily eyeing for one ripe and soft one to take a bite.
Meanwhile, many clever birds got it first, well, its good to share.
After 3 years of growing a few jackfruit trees while some destroyed by termites, most trees has matured and started to fruit with close to 20 fruit per tree. I was late to wrap up the young fruits and most got damaged by bugs and started rotting from inside out. The not ripe fruit is totally eaten internally by worms like maggots and most fall to the ground and being removed. Hopefully the rest survive the journey and ripen soon.
Passion fruit, definitely not my favourite sort of fruit, usually sour and mainly used for desserts and garnishing. My only interest for growing this plant is mainly for the unique and beautiful flower. This climbing vine plant is perfect for creating natural sun shading vertically or horizontally. This is one hardy plant, very easy to care and grow fast.
This little plant crept all over my fence and find its way up to anything that is near to it. Lush and beautifully green all the time, constantly flowering and fruiting non stop.
The flower usually bloom around noon when its sunny and hot, it simply attracts lots of bees and insects to pollinate them.
My very first passion fruit harvest, cant wait to try them.
The only known method to grow a pineapple for me is cutting its top and stick it in the soil, but how did the first pineapple come about ? mind boggling. I simply cut off the top and pot each one separately until more than half of the top bit in covered in soil and water it daily left under the sun. This is simply a waiting game until your next harvest, estimated time around 1 year, plus minus.
A healthy pineapple will form strong roots, you can lift it up if potted without breaking and its leaves will thicken and simply grow into a big bushy plant. Keep adding compost or fertiliser if you must and one fine day, a beautiful flower will form in the middle of the plant. Mine took 8 months to form the first flower and 4 months to complete the fruit.
The bottom of the pineapple will turn from green to yellow and its time to harvest.
This is my very first attempt to grow winter melon [dark green] or also known as wax gourd or kundur around my market area. This type of wintermelon are the long and huge ones ,usually you would only buy a small chunk off the entire fruit. Many would boil and make a nice delicious drink or used for cooking with vegetables or make soup.
This project started with drying the seeds, planting them in separate containers and took a few days for the seeds to germinate and grow. Two healthy young plants were then transferred to my raised growing section around July and these creepers seems to be growing and going everywhere by day.
More and more tiny yellow flowers start to bloom and will attract plenty of bees and bugs to pollinate the flowers or munch on the leaves. Try to get rid of those giant grasshoppers, they can kill your winter melon plant by munching on all the leaves and the young fruits.
There are more than 20 tiny little hairy melon growing but only a few will eventually grow into a smooth skin fruit in months ahead. Many will drop and some will be eaten by bugs, I don’t use pesticide, so this experiment is based on nature by design formula not maximum yield concept. Within 1 month, a few will eventually grow bigger and hopefully they will survive the journey which is said around 3 months before one can harvest them.
Finally, around October, I managed to keep a few winter melon growing and not knowing when they are ready to harvest. The closest guess is the ones which has drop all its hair and with a nice waxy smooth surface. This very first melon is 2 feet long and weigh 11 kg, pretty amazing.
The 2nd fruit is smaller, around 8.7kg.
Yes, you can definitely grow ginger in a pot of any containers which has proper drainage with non clay but preferably sandy type of soil or compost. Wet and damp soil usually cause ginger plant to rot and die easily. Growing gingers in pot basically confine the roots but a healthy soil setup still allows you to grow just as much ginger as groing on the ground.
Try it and wait a few months for some wonderful and tasty ginger. Whenever the ginger plant turn yellow or starts to dry up, dig it out and check if the plant is dying or salvage whatever you can or remove the dead roots while plant the healthy part back.
This is my latest pumpkin patch and the seeds obtained from organic farm. This is a japanese pumpkin which is softer and sweeter than the local pumpkin. Growing them is pretty much the same as any pumpkin crop i posted before.
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