On Saturday, my Mom and I went to Home Depot to buy some potting soil. We ended buying more…
Potting Soil, Steer Manure and Soil Conditioner
A Strawberry Pot and a $5 Pot
My mom bought a 6 pack of Celosia and a 6 pack of Zinnias. I bought a 6 pack of Coleus
Sometimes we harvest plums from the ground :)
Here’s what I collected
Yumm!!!
About a week and a half ago, I bought some Lemon Grass from Seafood City (a Filipino grocery store) and soaked it in water to see if it’ll root.
Well, it did!!!… and I noticed that a side shoot was starting to sprout, so I planted it in a pot with soil and hopefully it’ll start growing more shoots. I never grew or seen a Lemon Grass plant, so I don’t know if I should cut the original stalk back.
Close up of the roots and sprout
The planted Lemon Grass
Today I was able to take a whole bunch of garden photos, including some fruits, vegetables, flowers and other stuff in my garden. So if you have the bandwidth, check behind the cut.
Vegetables
Cucumbers
Hungarian Hot Wax Pepper
Pepperoncini
Baby Zuchini
Sweet 100 Tomatoes
Newly transplanted Bok Choy
Flowers
Begonia
Succulent Flower (I forgot this succulent’s name)
Flamingo Flower or Brazilian Plume Flower
Coreopsis
Clematis seed pod
Fushia
Radish
Lettuce
Young Hollyhock
Garlic
Young Gladiola
Hydrangea
Fruits
Apples and Fushia
Figs
Persimmons
Plum
Pear
Calamansi
Calamansi Leaves
Other Garden Stuff
Me
Black Ladybug?
Mickey
p.s. Sorry for the image quality, my camera is acting up.
After being sick for 3 days and having surprise showers, I was able to go outside and work in the garden.
My Yellow Pear Tomato died for some reason. I’m not sure why, but the others tomato plants next to it looks fine and healthy. I noticed some new tomatoes plants that sprouted from the homemade compost that I mixed in the bed and planted it in the Yellow Pear Tomatoes place.
I also transplanted the Bok Choy that I planted from seeds to the bed. I just hope that the bugs don’t eat them all up.
The Lettuce are getting big and I was able to harvest some for dinner.
I also took a whole bunch of photos around the garden, but will post them behind a cut in my next entry.
On Saturday, I went to a plant sale at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. I’ve never been to one, so I just wanted to see what a plant sale is like and what was available. It wasn’t as big as I thought, but they had alpine plants, some succulents and other perennials. I enjoyed looking at the other gardens that lead to the nursery and regretted not bringing my camera. There was one flowing plant that I just had to take a picture of.
Sorry for the poor quality, but this photo was taken with my mobile phone.
Now I want to take a day off of work and plan a day trip (with my camera) and take loads of pictures.
I have a weed in one of my containers that I can’t identify. I don’t want to kill it because I’m fascinated with the plant. At first I thought it was a pepper or tomato, but it doesn’t seem to be one.
The plant is about a foot and a half in height and has leaves that resemble a pepper or tomato leaf. It has round green fruits that look like a tomato, but is only about 1/4 inch round and turns to a dark purple (almost black).
1. The fruits above are about 1/4 inch round and turn a dark purple (almost black).
2. This is a similar plant I saw in an empty lot in San Francisco. Same fruits, but the leaves are slightly different from the one I have at home.
Can anyone identify these plants? Thank you.
Here are a few pictures I took yesterday for some of my vegetable.
My first baby Cucumber
My first Eggplant bloom
Lettuce
New Zealand Spinach
My first Yellow Pear Tomato fruits
French Sorrel