TERRACE GARDEN : UPDATE SEPTEMBER

This is our terrace garden in September.

Nothing special, expect our red cabbage row.

Lets we see closer...

In the center row there are cherry tomatoes, pakchoy and broccoli.

The eastern side...

Last two pots of cauliflower, eggplant, hot peppers, cabbages, thai-basil and mint.

The northern side...

Caisin, eggplant, green onion, and ornamental peppers.

They looks so healthy...

The southern side is brassica patch.

Green cabbage on the lowest rack.

The middle row is for 'Sawi Morakot' a kind of mustard-greens.

The highest rack is red cabbage row.

The western side...

This is the picture taken in the last of September.

The row of pakchoy and seedling tray in the highest row. 

Pakchoy, parsley and striped amaranth in the highest rack.

The middle row of the rack is for red amaranth, green onion and sawi keriting.

Sawi keriting is in the end of productive period.

The lowest row is for caisin.

We can see the rack in the early of September here.

Whatever... Thanks GOD...

THE PROGRESS OF THE DRYING AREA

This is a view of the edge of our drying area this week.

We have harvested some edible weed from this patch. 

We have moved the strawberry pots into terrace garden to get more sunshine.
And we put the garlic chives or Kucai here.

This patch is on part shady area.
Chives is more tolerant to the shady place than strawberry.
You can see the patch last month here.

The mustard green have grown bigger.

Some of them have get flowered.
We have to work hardly to move the plants here and there to get the sunshine.

BEAUTIFUL PATCH ON THE TERRACE GARDEN

Love to see this patch ....

So many vegetables with so various color and shape are growing so healthy here.
Parsley, red and green amaranths, packcoy, lettuce, mustard green and green onion.

The row of strawberry plants on the white pot behind.

GIFT OF THE WEEK : PASSION FRUITS AND JAPANESE MUSTARD

This week I got special gifts, passion fruits and Japanese mustard plants.

Maybe passion fruit is not special for me.

But something that makes these fruits so special is "I get my fruits back!".

I think you know what I mean.

My friend grows these passion fruit plants from ripen fruits that I've given her last year.

And now, when my passion fruit vines haven't fruiting yet, she shared me her fruits.

She knows that my son is really love passion fruit juice.

So, I can make passion fruit juice for my son.

Another day, she gave me some Japanese mustard seedlings.

A new vegetable for me, I've ever seen this vegetable on the Agricultural Exhibition last week.

Thank you friend for sharing me your seedlings and also "making my fruits back".

Readers, have you ever have same experience like mine... please share.

WEEKLY HARVEST : SEPTEMBER 2015

Not too much from my garden this week. 

I pick green amaranths almost every day.

Lots of green mustard too...

We picked green beans every two days.

Lots of green globular eggplants, some cucumbers and chili peppers.

Katu leaves (Saoropus androgenus) for a clear soup.

A bunch of garlic chives.

A lemon, green globular eggplants, three varieties of red bean and cucumber.

We get the first pare (bitter gourd) this week. 

The red sweet and juicy vermillion cherries are so refreshing our hot day.

The hot chillies have been ripen and reddish.

A green cabbage for today.

Just a small amount, but Thanks God...

ADDITIONAL RAISED BED UPDATE

This is a lovely patch to be explored.

We can see this patch on the early season here.

All plant grow so quickly here.

We can notice the progress during a week.

The picture above was the condition a week ago, and the picture below is the current condition.

They look grow so healthy, although the grasshoppers really enjoy make holes on so many leaves.

I guess the leaves are so tasty for them, of course for me too.

This was the green mustard patch a week ago, and the picture below is the patch today.

The green mustards, amaranths and kangkung are growing like crazy. 

The amaranth and kangkung patch was a fairly empty, but now looks fairly dense.

The amaranth is ready to be harvested.

The bitter gourd vines are starting climb here and there.

So lovely...

I think I should do thinning on the amaranth patch, so they will grow much better.

I have picked some green mustard once.

The existing green mustard is on flowering stage right now.

The yellow flowers are so beautiful.

Lovely patch...

TERRACE GARDEN UPDATE : JUNE 2015

Ahh... I couldn't remember when the latest time I made a posting about progress of my terrace garden.

It must be so long...

Here they are the appearance right now...

The eastern side is looked so bare.
There are only green mustard, Thai basil, and kale.
The vertical rack is still stand on with some empty pots on it. 
Oh ya... there's a pot of Tapak Dara or periwinkle that cheering this part.
During this dry season, the flowers bloom here and there.

On the western side, the gutters are full of veggies.

Only a gutter that looked 'empty', but actually there are lot of Chinese cabbage seedling on it.
The gutter below is full of green mustard and colorful amaranths that grow itself by self-seedling.

The green amaranths are ready to be harvesting.
They are so fresh and healthy, free from bugs.

There are three variety that grow so healthy like as weed.

On  the southern side, there are lot of empty pots ready for new growing season that full of weed.
The cabbages grow so healthy.
Lot of green amaranth here.

The worst part is northern side.
Weed is covering every pot there.
Look... the tomatoes are collapsed, they need support and I should move them into a brighter place that has more sunshine.

The only one survivor from the eggplant patch.
I have to compete with the weed to survive.
But I'm so happy that there's a first flower is hanging on the end of the stem.

I have to do weeding soon, before the veggies become worse and worse.

Readers, Are your garden doing well right now?

THE HOLE MAKER

Poor raised bed...

Look the leaves of my vegetables have lot of holes.

Especially the amaranth...
Hmmm... here they are the suspect!

Look the green mustard leaves.
There are holes here and there.

Dry season is the bug season on my garden.

They look so happy enjoy the crispy and healthy leaves.

Oh please... don't you eat it all!
I want to eat it too...