推肥已经八分熟了。可以不时加果皮进去进行腐化。今天也用了一些去种花了。很开心。










新一批的菜苗里属京皇白菜长得最好了。




芥兰第二。芥菜好慢好慢。整个月了，还是菜苗的样子。







用人丢弃的床架子做了一个新的花架，摆在走廊。又有更多地方可以摆盆栽了。

已经提起它很多遍了，却没有好好介绍过。瞧，这就是我一直提的那棵本来很美，现在却已奄奄一息的多肉植物。



买它的时候，盆上也没说它叫什么名，也没说要怎么照顾。而我，因为它很美丽，就不顾一切地把它买回来了。

回来也折腾了一阵。不知道它需要晒太阳，还是需要阴凉；需要浇水，还是干燥。胡乱照顾，放来放去。

在网上人说这科的植物如果长高了，不美丽。为了保持它的茎短短，才像一朵花，得要把它的头给割掉。

于是我就。。。割了。还浇了水，放在大太阳的地方。

有一天它下面的“瓣” 开始垂下来，像是没多久了。

呜呜呜呜呜呜呜。。。。你怎么啦，都怪娘不好，不会照顾你。可是还要怪你爹呀，怎么没说一句话就把你丢给娘。看娘亲把你折腾的。

好了，好了，不要做大戏，回来讲故事。

看着它一天天的消沉，我也放弃了。心想，要死就早点死呗，别在那半活不死地，占我一个花盆。 （好翻脸无情的娘！）

然后终于在网上找到最像它的表亲！


除了颜色不是很搭之外，其他都最像了。看了看上面的说明，好可怜。这些日子浇水日晒，什么不能做的都给它做了。能不奄奄一息吗？

看了这个以后，就把它移回室内，再把它的根从湿湿的泥土中拔出来 （植物暴力，连根拔起）让它吹风，不再潮湿。

再找来一颗黑色水晶石头，念几句咒语，放在盆里，看能不能救救它。

眼看几个星期下来，它不见好转却也不死。就这么呆着。

下面的叶片慢慢脱水垂下。。也不干枯。

突然有一天。。。



咦~~ 生宝宝了耶。有看见吗？中间那些小花朵？我欣喜若狂。



那棵砍下来的头也没什么变化，这样几个星期了，我等它长根，也没有，慢慢失水，变皱，却不死。


看见吗？以前的它多么美丽。还有机会风华再现吗？

菜园每天都不一样。今天是这样的。。。。



上次那批青梗菜都长得不错一颗还长花了呢。我只是收割叶子不整棵拔起。

前几天，看见其中一盆菜的泥土很硬，菜又长得太挤，想给它们重新整理一番。

拔起来，把泥土翻松，然后再放回去。

结果 - 全都谢了。 :P

呃。。。应该是不可以那样做的吧。结果全拔起来，剪碎，丢进推肥桶内。

一盆菜没了。

上次也是为了将一棵多肉植物的头试验性地砍掉而把植物给毁了。因为看网上有人说如果它长得太高就要割掉头嘛。谁知道。


拔起那些菜来的时候看见土里面到处都是细细的根。我想，是不是泥土里面找不到肥料，所以根要长那么多，那么细呢？我每天都勤劳浇水哦。

于是昨天又为所有菜，花施肥。

这一施，今天一些青花菜，生菜的小苗又死了几棵。

但是除了以上的一些小差错，基本上我的菜园都还长得不错滴。


妹妹画了一些小鬼怪，把它们上色，过胶插上筷子。不但能增加菜园的可爱指数，可能也帮忙吓走了害虫谁知道。



紫色的花都是楼下花园剪的。把他们放进水里长根，存活率比较好。上次薄荷也剪枝上来种了几次都不能活。后来是用这个方法，现在有了。

看最高那个图，白色铁皮花盆里的就是薄荷。香锋草也算上了轨道。这些都让人鼓舞。

三盆菜的收成不错的。没几天都能有这样的一大碗。



煮了变成这样一小碗。呵呵。


还有几盆小菜在长。很期待它们长大后会有一番怎样的风景。


京皇白菜


芥兰


芥菜

还有青花菜和生菜。那两盆少的可怜不想上图。反正宝宝们的样子都很像。

小小的阳台就能种出那么多盆菜 （7 盆）。不过算幸运的是，这阳台阳光很充足。之前老公一直很不看好，说冷气机的热准会把它们热坏。可是由于我们开机的时间不长，所以还好。

菜园的进度很不错。

今天，老公帮我把木架整理一番，做了个新的木架和桌面。
放盆子的空间大了许多。所以又撒了些新的种子。

现阶段种的都是青梗菜，都长得不错。

我在楼下花园剪了些花的茎，移植了两三颗上来。
还有一株香蜂草 (Lemon Balm)。
楼下长疯了。上来也存活的不错。
看它有些歪了，该是换盆的时候了。



也新买了两颗多肉植物。
从来不知道这类植物那么美丽，以前很讨厌仙人掌。
没想到它们的表亲有那么多长得很美丽。

过去两个星期都忙着栽种，换盆。
还有填满养推肥的桶(compost bin)

推肥桶也花费不少功夫。
刚开始的时候把储了多时的果菜渣倒进去。
掺些楼下的枝叶。
可是由于太湿了。开始引来苍蝇，也发臭。
于是又去捡了很多干的叶子，剪得碎碎的倒进去。
推肥才没有再发臭，蛆虫也不见了。

现在摆在花架下面，让它慢慢发酵。偶尔需要给它搅一搅。透透气。

小孩都很有兴趣，我做园艺的时候他们都喜欢凑过来。
可以帮忙的我就叫他们帮我。比如那天剪干叶。
我说你们能剪多少就多少，累了闷了就停止吧。
妹妹问我：“那你呢？” 意思是他们累了闷了就可以停止，
我怎么办？“ 好贴心。

剪完了我说地上需要扫一扫，宝宝自己就拿了扫把给扫起来了。

老公也花了一天的时间，用拾来的木帮我钉了个漂亮整齐的环保花架。

大家，加油！ 

So the gardening craze continues..

This has been something I wanted to do since we returned from USA last time.
There, people live in houses and maintain beautiful gardens.
And it was so much pleasure looking at them.

After coming back, one thing led to another, the plan is shelved for a good 3 years.

It's always My Dear's doubt on my ability to maintain one.
I am good at starting things. But not good at maintenance.
He knows me well and has succeeded in stopping me all this time.

Not this time.

I spent two days getting it to this state. No greenery yet, but creating spaces for my greens.


I moved the long bin cactus to the ground from the red plastic bag place. And moved the tree-y plant we bought to the extreme right. The tree-y plant is safe, don't worry. It has some weight good for anchoring and there is no strong wind in this confined space. 

This setup is built on a couple of principles : 
1.) Safety. Will make very sure things will not fall off. I will not fall off.
2.) Gardening space maximisation.
3.) Recycling. I thought of investing in a plank of plywood to make more spaces, but will use a piece of recycled wood we have for now. 

There's nothing much to see for now. But it's a beginning.



I have space for one or two more brown pots. Have some green vege seeding in a tray in my bathroom. Will move them out when they are bigger. Have also seeded broccoli, and a flowering plant Nacturtium (sp?) but they are not sprouting yet.



Yesterday I went out to buy more brown pots from Daiso.
This morning, I brought Meimei down to our gardens downstairs to pick up stones, leaves and twigs.

Because I plan to make a compost pile. I have lots of vegetable leftovers I have saved from juicing and cooking. So last night, after watching two videos on how to go about, I went scavenging for these rubbish this morning.

All the time laughing inside at how I was working so hard just to do something natural does effortlessly. I could almost hear the trees, the earth and the leaves laugh at me while we collected the twigs.
All because we are living in high rise concrete.

But it was a great bonding activity with Meimei. Very fun to do gardening with children. She is happy to be helping me pick rubbish from the garden. And we would both be happy when we found a big pile of dead leaves or stones to pick.

At home, she helped my concoct the compost pile. Made a mess, but still I greatly enjoyed gardening with her.



These were sprouted last week and had been growing on the ledge for about a week now. Can't remember what their exact name is, some kind of chye sim green vege, there are like 1001 varieties I dunno all their names and can't tell one apart from another.

They are doing well.

Lest anyone thinks the aircon ledge is too small, too inconvenient to have a garden, a garden can be anywhere, as long as you want to set up and maintain one.

Wish me luck on this one!