planting green beans again

My garden was invaded by snails. They comes in variety. big, small and medium size. I can easily see ten of them at one place. All my vegetables was eaten and damaged by this pest!

All my seedling were gone in a night. I planted 15 green beans seedling but only left is 2 green beans climbing on the trellis.

After putting so much effort like salt, egg shell, etc....nothing work out. Finally with advice from nursery guy, I put snail poison. The next morning I found about 60++ of them death! I feel very guilty but I have no choice...... I think the soil I bought from the nursery might have contain a lot of snail eggs........ phew.....

Here is the 2 green beans....climbing safely at the moment.....

Winning book

It's really great to win something! I'm not the kind of lucky person who get luckily draw or so....but it's really a big surprise to win the below book. I try my luck on a contest at http://stephgreenspace.blogspot.com/ 

She have beautiful potted garden and a good journalist! I have read her article in Strait times paper few times. It's really good.

This is really a good reference book on plants that I really wanted for so long!

Finally the book arrived last week. It's really a great reference book for me! Thanks Stephanie!

pineapple progress

Pineapple is growing slowly. More leaves are adding on. I found some tips in growing Pineapple from website :http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/growing-pineapples.html

A few things you should know about pineapple plants:

Pineapples don't need much water. They have very tough leaves so they don't lose much water through evaporation. They can get by on very little.
Pineapples don't need much soil or high quality soil. They belong to the family of bromeliads, and like all bromeliads they do not have a big root system.
Pineapples get a lot of their water and nutrition through their leaves.
Pineapples like slightly acidic soils, which is what most gardens have anyway.
Pineapples grow in full sun, even in the hottest climates, but they also do well in dappled shade.
Pineapples grow very happily in pots or tubs.
What pineapples do not like is
soggy, waterlogged soils,
having their leaves burned with concentrated fertilisers,
frost.

I read somewhere that the leaves colours indicate the health state of the plant. I'm not so sure if mine is doing well but I think I have to put more hand on this plant. Oh yes, do some weeding too!

Serai after a hair cut

Serai or lemongrass has been growing quietly at a corner of my garden. On and off I take some for my cooking. They look like a big bunch of weed or "lalang" from far!

I love the aroma of cooking chicken with them!

I did tidy the plant last weekend. A few hair cut and clean up the weeds around them.