Category: Green Plants

Thai Lavender Frog Egg Eggplant

I’ve been searching for their seeds for quite some time and finally I found an online local seller who sell it. It is best eaten raw as ‘ulam’ with ‘sambal belacan’ Here is some info about these tiny eggplants taken from myfolia.com Thai lavender frog egg is a variety...

Barbarella Eggplants

When the online seeds seller put up this eggplant seeds for sale, I thought it looks wonderful. So I bought a packet and tried sowing it in the tray. It didn’t take long for the seed to germinate. After a week or two I repot the plant to a...

Bunga Telang – Clitoria ternatea

I always hate climbing plants simply because my lawn doesn’t have enough space for the plants to climb. So when I got the seeds of this bunga telang, I thought just give it a try and see how well the plant can grow. I’ve tried planting several type of...

Update on Timun Mini

After a week or two of seeing the timun mini growing well, I decided to repot it into a bigger pot and put obelisk for it to climb. Amazing how the next day the tendrils grabbed the obelisk. As this is the first time I tried to plant cucumber,...

Buah Bendi – Mammoth Spineless Okra

We went away for a wedding for a few days and this is what happened to the buah bendi..huhu! I guess by this stage it will be too woody for me to pick and cook it. I decided to keep it on the plant and let it grow mature...

Bunga Bendi

Since I’ve never planted okra/bendi before, I was so fascinated when I saw the plant has flower coming out. A friend told me that after the flower wilts, the okra/lady fingers bud will start to form. But I was shocked to find the bud fell down on the floor...

Timun Mini

Before I gave birth early this year, I bought more vegetable seeds from tanamsendiri.com. One of the vegetables I chose is timun mini (cucumber). There’s only 5 seeds in one pack so when I planted it a few days ago, I just put one seed in the soil. 2...

Update: Mammoth Okra

Check out my previous entry on this heirloom spineless mammoth okra/lady fingers. One of the plants died during my confinement period. One barely survives. Fortunately after several days of watering and tender care, it emerges back into a strong okra plant. Now I can see 3 buds of okra...

Cherry Tomato

I tried to plant cherry tomato from seeds with hope that one day I would be able to collect the tomato and eat them as salad. After 2 months of planting, out of 6 small plants which sprouted from the seeds, only 2 managed to grow big. And then...

Bendi Heirloom Mammoth Spineless

This is like the third time I tried to sow okra/lady fingers seeds. The two times that I tried none ever grow. But this time somehow two healthy plants emerge from the soil..hehe! For this type of okra – Mammoth Spineless I bought the seeds from Diana of Kebun...