Monday, July 29, 2013

It's beans time again!

Due to my pregnancy, may be I would say my "laziness" make my garden strive on own.

Anyway as my garden vegetables harvest become less and lesser, I started to buy vegetables from wet market. Then I realize the taste is so different from the one fresh from garden, I started to worry about pesticide and wash the vegetables too many times......Of course I still buy many vegetables from market like cauliflower, brocolli , etc but I seldom buy the Asian green actually. .......hahhahaha..... So finally I put aside my laziness and try to plant as much vegetables as I can.

Beans are my 1st harvest after so long. From below pictures you can see that most of my plot is empty. The old sticks and rods are still standing tall without any plants!


Little beans and the purple flower!





  

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Daun Pandan is widely used in Southeast Asian cooking! It has good aroma and flavour to cooked food or dessert!This plant is widely cultivated and commonly seen at the backyard.


It's has fan-shaped ,long, narrow, blade-like leaves and woody aerial roots. The plant is sterile, flowers only grow very rarely, and is propagated by cuttings.

I had few cuttings from my neighbour last year and it's growing well with little care. I don't fertilize them but it' happy with only water!

It's used as cockroach repellent too!