Sunday, March 31, 2013
How to harvest Pok Choy
Baby Pok Choy leaves are best suited to go with soup noodle.
There is no need to wait for the vegetable to grow bigger, you can cut them anytime you want to eat them.
Aphids Problem
I discovered a huge colony of aphids on chilli pot, the whole plant was covered by hundreds of thousands of aphids.
- 'Instant Coffee + Water' or 'Milk + Water'
I did a couple of things in the following order to get things under control.
1. Wide sticky tapes.
Wrapped a piece of sticky tapes around my fingers and ran my hand over the plant. After a few rounds, I got rid of all the crawling aphids on the top of the leaves, then swapped new sticky tapes and did the back of the leaves.
2. Honey + Water
For the roots and hard to reach places on the plant, I sprayed 'honey water' all over it. Some people use 'dish washing liquid + water' but I think 'honey + water' is a safer option.
3. Ground Coffee Powder
I then sprinkled used ground coffee around the plant. I heard coffee powder is effective aphids repellants.
4. Banana skin.
I buried some banana skin in the soil.
5. Post implementation review.
Day 2, I found that the aphids colony is nearly wiped out. I could still find a few aphids here and there, so on with the 'sticky tapes' trick again.
- 'Instant Coffee + Water' or 'Milk + Water'
Once I got rid of visibly crawling aphids, I sprayed the plant with a mixture of 'instant coffee + water'.
Day 3, I am pleased to say that my aphids problem is gone.
As a prevention steps, I have planted garlic around the lettuce and pok-choy. Garlic odour also serves as aphids repellant.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Recycling used teabags
Cut out used teabag and collect the tea powder then use them as nutrient to your plant. It's a great way to recycle, my plants are loving it.
Transplanting Mint
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Germinated Chilli Seeds
Took about 2 weeks and really really hot weather to get a bunch of chilli seeds to germinate.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Potato Pot with Skirt + Drip Watering System
Potato pot with plastic skirt and drip watering system.
DIY greenhouse on Cos Lettuce
It's best to cover up young seedlings after transferring to pot. Use transparent plastic container as DIY greenhouse can be very economic.
DIY pot from milk bottles, DIY greenhouse from milk crate
DIY greenhouse using milk crate
DIY pot using milk bottles
Iceberg lettuce seedlings Day 1.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Denser mint pot
Mint pot has grown denser now. I find that mint is really water hungry and wildly aggressive plant. Watering down to the root is necessary every 2 days.
Germinating lots of Chilli seeds inside milk bottles
This lot was started about a week ago around 5-Marh-2013. Let's see how long it'll take for the seedlings to be sighted.
Growing Potatoes. Success!
After one failed attempt of growing potatoes, round 2 is finally showing some progress.
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Dying Blueberry
The Blueberry pot is a very sad state now. I haven't dug up the root to see if it is a root rot problem. I just don't know what is happening to it. I am going to leave, water it from time to time and see what'll happen.
Lettuce progress. This pot has grown quite well. However, the garlic spray hasn't done much repelling aphids. I can still find aphids on the lettuce thankfully not in millions. I am not spraying anything on the lettuce, I have settled to squashing the green bugs whenever I spot them munching on this leafy green.
Mint Pot
This mint pot was stripped nearly bare and the leaves consumed 2 weeks ago. Now, 2 weeks later the pot is covered with new leaves. Amazing.
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