BLACK CHERRY TOMATO : FIRST HARVEST

This dry season, my tomato patches look so healthy.
Grow so well and produce a plentiful fruits.

I'm growing so many varieties, both old and new varieties.
These are my Black Cherry Tomato.

This is one of three new varieties that I'm growing this season.
I sowed three seeds and there are two plants remain.
Although they are grown on a medium pots, but they look grow so well and raise some bunches of fruits.
I put the pots on my terrace garden, so they get more sunshine  for their growth.

Such a lovely fruits....

Readers, how about your tomatoes this season?

NEW FRUIT-PLANT COLLECTIONS

Last Sunday we visited my Father's house in my home town.
And I had more time, so I visited traditional market just for window shopping.
I bought some traditional snacks for my children, yes... special snacks.
I was so lucky, I met a nursery man that almost everyday sold so various plants on this morning market.
I took a look some interesting plants to add my collection.

Then I took home several little trees to be grown as potted plants.
There were mini guava, variegated mini guava, calamondine and kefir lime, and also I got a bonus a rose plant.

This is my mini guava (Psidium guajava).
Look... there are some flower buds among the leaves.

And this one is variegated mini guava...

I also bought calamondine or acid orange (Citrofortunella sp) to substitute my old collection that have died caused by downy mildew.
All plants have planted on the pots yesterday, and I hope they will grow so well in my garden.

MY HYDRANGEA THIS WEEK

Finally, my hydrangea is blooming.
I have been waiting for about three years until this plant blooming again.
The last blossom was on July 2011.
I've been missing the blossom.

We had house reconstruction for about a year during 2011-2012.
So, we saved our plants on so many places, to keep them stay alived.
Several pot plants were easy to be moved, but plants that grown on the ground were so difficult to be saved.
Some plants finally had died during the reconstruction period.
Oh...what a shame...

Some toughs plants able to survive during the unfavorable condition.
Hydrangea is the one of my tough plants.

After the reconstruction, I redesigned my garden, and have moved some existing plants.
I moved this hydrangea into new place on my front yard, but too much shady there, I think it's unfavorable place for this plant.
But there's no empty space anymore.
Several months ago, I did trimming on several bigger and taller plants around this hydrangea.
And now... I'm finding the beauty of my hydrangea.

I hope the flower will stand on for a long time, and raise the new flower buds, again and again...

VOLUNTEERS ON AGLAONEMA PATCH

Last month my husband did repotting on his collections, Aglaonema.
He used homegrown compost as  the media.
Yes, the media was  from our compost heap.
The compost heap was consisted from kitchen scarp also so various green material from our garden.
Now... we can see so many volunteers grow so healthy on the pots.
I guess they are ready to be moved into individual and also bigger containers.
And the other will be moved into compost heap again.
Here there are...

Passion fruit seedlings, so fresh...

Tomato, striped amaranth, red amaranth, green amaranth and chili pepper...

Long peppers, so crowded...

Papaya, passion fruit and tomato.

Tomato, passion fruit, and Som jawa (Talinum paniculatum)

Papaya and passion fruits.

Tomatoes, eggplant, chili pepper and amaranths.

Tomatoes, red, green and striped amaranths.

Tomatoes, passion fruits, and eggplant.

Readers, do you have volunteer on your garden?
Do you have special thing on your compost heap?
Please share...
Happy gardening and have a nice weekend.

EUPHORBIA : NEW COMERS

I always think how to find new plant to be collected.
Everywhere I go, I will try to take home with new plant to be grown on my little garden.
My friends really understand about that.
Although they often ask me where I will grow my new plants.
They always say that my garden looks like a jungle and there's no space to grow anymore.
But I just smile, smile and smile...

On the past two weeks, I visited my friend's house.
And I took home two varieties of Euphorbia and also three bulbs of Agapanthus.

Look... the Euphorbia grew so happy on my friend's garden.
The color was so striking.

I collect some Euphorbia in my garden.
Although these new comers were old varieties, but I need them to be members of my garden.
I hope they will grow so well and cheering my little garden.

An ambitious-amateur gardener... :)

ENDS TRAGICALLY

In this world, all the beauty will be end.

Look my Candle Light Pepper...

After all of the beauty that it have showed to me several times ago, now the little plant looks so poor.
The mealy bugs made a serious damage.
A very fast and deadly attack...
So the plant have dried and then tragically died.
I've tried to treat this plant, but all of my efforts did not succeed.
Brushing the plant with soapy water, spraying the plant with garlic water and many more... all didn't help.
Actually I really love this plant, both of the shape and the colors.
As ornamental chili the color is so striking, and coloring my green garden.
But now... that's over...

The plant left my garden before I got the seeds.
Yea... the pods were still immature.
Delayed regeneration...
So, I have to buy new seeds for the next planting.
For me, there are so many challenges on growing chili pepper.
It's not easy to keep the plants grow well and healthy.
There are a lot of bugs and disease that love this plant.
It needs a hard work to reach the success.

Readers, have you an interesting experience on growing chili pepper?
Please share... I will love it...

TIMUN JEPANG : FIRST NORMAL FRUIT

This season I'm growing Japanese cucumber or here we call it 'timun Jepang'.
I'm growing local variety 'Roberto', just sowed two seeds and both have grown so well.
But when the first female flower was popping up, the downy mildew came and made a little damage.
Then I cut the old leaves and only leaved the healthy leaves and shoots.

This is my second batch on growing this variety.

My first batch was not good enough, cause the downy mildew was infected the plants and made these plant dried then died. 

I have more expectation to these plants.
I've been noticing that these plants are much better than the plants at the first batch.

I'm growing these plants on two medium pots.
I guess they need bigger pots and better media.
The media should be rich on organic materials, especially fine compost.

I think, if I grow it on bigger pot and better media, I will find more female flowers and of course the fruit lets too.
I will try again, again and again...
I'm sure there are a lot of lessons from each failure.

Readers, are you growing cucumber this season?

Please share your experience.