Rosella is a must in my little garden. They produce juicy fruits which I use to make cordial. While young I call them ribena juice. They have similar taste but better and healthier than the store bought one! No preservative and no flavouring and any colouring agent.

The fruits are red in colour and in abundance!

Indians use the leaves too. We do curry with the leaves or pickle. The leaves have sour taste! It compliment the spicy taste of Indian cooking!

The blooms are in red like hibiscus! The above is the spent bloom!

GBBD - Nov 2015

Rainy season have started in Malaysia! It rains all the days. Yesterday it almost rain whole day! It's wet everywhere!  

Should I complain? I think no....I have seen the strange drought season and evil haze this year. So rain is a blessing!

Marigold is back in my garden. They disappear few years ago! I planted the seeds again middle of this year!

 Roselle do have beautiful pink flowers! The leaves are edible but sour! Some insect must have tasted and left them.....

Bunga telang look ornamental on the gate!

The lovely orange hibiscus is flowering profusely!  The ants love this flowers a lot. Some of the petals have holes. I'm not sure who ate them though....

 The flowers of cape honeysuckle always invite the bees! I have seen many bees buzzing around this flowers! They must be very sweet!

This was taken in the morning while sun was shining generously!

In the evening they cape honeysuckle had a good bath!

The pink rose bloom cheers the morning!

They are all wet after a shower!

This is for GBBD Nov 2015. What's flowering in your garden now? I'm adding this post to GBBD hosted by May Dream Flowers at may dream flower

Roselle juice again!

I have make myself more available in the garden than the past 4 months! ;) It's good news for me as the garden was so terrible during my absence or may be duing my ignorance time......

Last Saturday I harvested all the big Roselle fruits and make a bottle of juices! The picture above was taken after I harvested the fruits!

It's been so long since I tasted this juice! The taste is similar to Ribena juice! Drinking homemade juice with few ice cubes during the hot season is so good!

 Refreshing juice of Roselle!

I have fill them up in the "blackcurrent cordial bottle" and now the the bottle is almost empty after 3 days!   I shall plant more of the plant to produce enough juice for atleast a week!

Roselle

It's been long since I did Roselle juice. The main reason was that I never sow the seeds after the mother plant died. I was ignorant. Or may be I tried to be ignorant due to my busy schedule!

We start to buy cordial from the shelves! The taste of cordial can't beat the original taste and soon my house members start to complain......ghee......

I have no choice but to sow the seeds and wait for the fruits to appear! Finally after waiting for a month , the Roselle start to produce fruits.

Fresh fruits are ready for harvest and processed to be juice!

Mango tree

The Mango tree seems to grow well outside my house. It's more that my height now. It's fun to see how a seed germinate and grow to become a big tree!

Mango having roselle and lemongrass as friends. They don't seems to mind growing together! ;)

Harvest for the week!

I manage to harvest big bowl of roselle and 2 angle loofah. I have more roselle to be harvested. I might do the juices again  today. The juice I did on Monday has only half a bottle left! That's the demand for roselle in my house! ;)

Roselle seeds

I make sure my garden have continuous supply of Roselle. I use them to do refreshing juice. However now, I have little time to tend the garden. Some of the Roselle fruits have have dry out....sigh.... I wish I have enough time to tend the garden and to pluck each and every Roselle to do juice!

These are the seeds drying near my window. I just pluck one. That's enough for me. I have little more in my fridge for next planting time.... ;)

roselle again!

Can you resist a plant which is both beautiful and provide cool and refreshing drinks? 

Roselle is one of them! The plant is a beauty by itself and it provide soothing drinks especially in hot weather. Fresh from garden. Once you have homemade drinks from the garden you know what i mean here.

The fruits will be ready for harvest in a week or two. This time I have planted 4 of them on the bed and I have 2 more growing wild. I can't wait to make the drinks! It's been a while since I tasted them! ;)

the spent bloom

The fruit

roselle on the new bed

Roselle have new bed for them this time. I have planted 4 of them. If everything goes well I shall have juices to drink by next month! Thinking of Roselle juice make me salivating! hahhaha.... It's been a while since I tasted them.

Turmeric

First let me update on roselle seeds, I have few bloggers who request for the Roselle seeds! I will sent them soon! I don't know if US allow seeds postage but i will sent them! ;)

OK back to the topic.

Turmeric either in powder form or the Rhizome form is a must in most of Indian cooking. It's a ancient Ayurvedic herbs used by Indians in many treatment. Other than that Turmeric is considered auspicious and used in every Indian wedding and prayers.

The leaves

The old rhizome

I remember while I was young and naughty, my Mother use to grind the turmeric rhizome for all my bruises and cut. It cure the wound quiet fast!

Knowing the goodness of Turmeric, I welcome this plant in my garden! I have wrote before how I got this plant. Now the whole place have been cleaned for Turmeric healthy growth!

Seeds give away!

Hope everyone had a good holiday for New Year!

Let me start this 2012 new year post with seeds give away. I have a lot of Roselle seeds in my garden now! Roselle juice is really tasty and the leaves are used in indian cooking! If anyone would like to have some seeds, e-mail me at malart79@yahoo.com for your address!

roselle - Harvest time again!

I'm getting continuous supply of juice at home now. No more kordel, no preservative, no artificial colouring but pure juice fully packed with vitamin!

Too much fruits make the branches touching the ground. I have harvested all of them for a big bottle of Roselle juice! Enough for atleast 2 weeks consumption!

Roselle jam biscuit

I saw 2 small bottles of  Roselle jam in the fridge and wonder what shall I do.We seldom eat bread. The jam looks so yummy that I decided to do biscuit with them!

I modified the Pineapple Jam Tart recipe and make the Roselle jam as the filing! It tasted so heaven! Very rich taste!

The recipe are the same as pineapple tart and i think most of us know it!

Now i have bottle full of Roselle jam tart! hahhaha...

I'm linking this to Wendy's GTTC

Roselle juice and Jam

Yesterday i came back home quiet early. It seems the traffic have reduce a little compare to first week of Ramadan. May be many already started to go back hometown for the joyous Raya celebration. Many of my friends are starting leave from today!

As i walk through my garden, I found many Roselle fruits around.

I had time to do Roselle Juice and Jam.

So refreshing juice on hot day!

First time i did Roselle jam. tasted so good ! A good amount of sugar and real taste of Roselle. Now i realise that the commercial jam only have the sugary taste! 

I'm linking this to GTTC by greenishthumb

Here are the Roselle!

It's been 2 months since we drank Roselle juice. To those who have drank fresh homemade Roselle juice will agree with me on how refreshing and tasty the juice is!

I was a bit late in sowing the seeds. That was the main reason for us to run out of Roselle. But now my tiny seedling have grown up and produce a lot of fruits! The fruit is pack with a lot of Vitamin C and Anthocyanin!



The Roselle fruit and the spent bloom



Roselle growing up

At the earlier stage when i try to collect the Roselle seeds, i end up with young seeds or flat seeds which i doubt will ever germinate. I try o sow them but none germinated. My single Roselle was aging and demand for the Roselle juice in my house increase. That's went Bangchik had a Roselle seeds giveaway! The seeds were healthy and have germinated successfully!

Anyway by time i learn to save the seeds. I let it dry on the plants and i get a lot of healthy and fat seeds! So now i believe i won't run out of supply for Roselle!