KENIKIR KUNING - YELLOW COSMOS

This is my kenikir kuning or yellow cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus).
 I planted it near the orange cosmos in front of my bedroom.

A simple flower.
Easy growing.... low maintenance...
So lovely...

I planted it as an annual in my garden.
Actually nothing special with this flower, but I really love it.

This is the double petal variety.
I took the seeds from a road side in September.
It was sown directly, and soon grew.
Maybe it will give me more flowers if I plant it on a sunny area.

The flowers give me shine...
Bright, cheer... and warm.
Have a warm  weekend.

RIPE RAMBUTAN

Finally I find ripe rambutan.
Look so many reddish fruits on the tree.

There are so many black ants on the tree, especially on the fruits cluster.

Rambutan is come from word 'rambut' means hair.
So... look the hairy skin!

There are black mold on the fruit skin, and of course it will invite the ants to come on.

Yesterday, my son asked me to pick some rambutan.
Then, I picked some fruit clusters for him.
Actually, I want to let the fruits reach their peak of maturity with the dark red skin.

 When I tasted the pulp, it's taste fairy sweet and dry.

And the pulp is not too juicy.

My son is really love it.
I didn't know how much he ate it.

I found so many seedless fruits.

As the first time fruiting season, the yield is not bad enough.
I'm so confuse, I will cut it down the tree or will let the tree grow  and produce better yields.

TERRACE GARDEN UPDATE - JANUARY 2014

This is the current condition of my terrace garden

North rack

North rack: closer

A cluster tomatoes

Cauliflower row

Red Rapid lettuces and green mustard

Red amaranths as volunteer are ready to be pulled out

West rack

Garlic chives box; four days after cutting

Green mustard box; a week after transplanting

Lettuce box

The purple eggplant is bearing the fruit sets

South rack

Green packcoy on the east side

WEEKLY HARVEST - JANUARY 5

This week I get a lot of thing from my garden.
I have dry and sunny week, just a little shower.

From my front yard, the passion fruit vine give me a plentiful yields.
I share it with my neighbors and friends.
I make some sweetened juice from it.

From my back yard I find two varieties of pare, green eggplants, chayote, long hot peppers, cabe rawit (little chilli peppers) and kara leaves

 

Here, the chayote is called labu siam or waluh jipang.
The chayote vine is really plentiful in yield.
 

The kara vines aren't giving me their pods, but I can take the young leaves from them,  a delicious greens.

From my terrace garden, I get red and green lettuces, garlic chives, green beans, green onions, red amaranths, sweet basil and cucumbers.

The cucumber vines are starting their fruiting stage, so lovely.

From my balcony I get sweet basil, red lettuces and green mustards.
I love my harvest.
Thanks God for everything.

JAMBU BIJI MERAH - RED GUAVA

This is my red guava (Psidium guajava).
This is one of my six guava collection.
The little tree is bearing two little fruit sets.
I plant it on a pot.

The plant is still a little tree, but the plant already reach the fruiting stage.
I can't wait to taste the fruits.

There are so many bugs on it.
I hope it won't be  make a serious damage.

TAPAK DARA PUTIH - WHITE VINCA

This is one of three perennial vincas on my front garden.
We can see the flowers every day.
So beautiful...

 

So many benefit from this beautiful plant.
A useful plant...