Chilli No. 1

Despite constant aphids attack, Chilli No. 1 is bearing fruit nicely. 

Progress of other transplanted mint

Mint Pot No. 3 and No 4. are growing nicely but rather slowly. These were transplanted using older mint roots and that might be why the growth is slower than Mint Pot 2.

Mint Pot Number 1

Mint Pot No. 1 was trimmed bare a month ago. One month later it is ready to be harvested again.

Growing more Pok Choy in DIY greenhouse

For combating aphids, I am keeping the baby Pok Choy inside a big clear plastic container. I don't fully cover them, if I do they'll burn. I tape a big black plastic bag on top of the plastic container to avoid overheating the veggie.

Carrot Growth

Spring Onion = Easy Growing

Spring onion is really hardy and easy to grow. I bought a pack of spring onion with roots from a local market. I kept the roots after some cooking and grew them in a pot. Growth was visible after just 1 day of planting them. This pot is about 3 weeks old.

Chilli Pot Growth

This chilli pot has been under constant aphid attack. The slow growth is showing. Fertiliser has been added 5 days ago, shall wait and see if it will improve from here.

Water Spike for Pot Plant

Recently I bough water spikes for my veggie in pots. I think they are great, drip feeding my plant slowly and keep soil moisture level stable. As a result, my potato is showing healthy growth.

Progress of Pok Choy grown inside DIY milk crate greenhouse

Pok Choy growth after first harvest

Potato Growth

Veggie in Pots

Progress of Carrot

Progress of transplanted Mint

Garlic

Planted a few cloves of garlic around the lettuce pot as aphids repellant.

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.

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.

Potato Growth

Pok Choy Growth

Spring Onion Seedlings

Took about 40 days for this lot to become seedlings.

Healthy Lettuce

Despite Aphids attack, this pot of oldest lettuce is growing very well.

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

I learn that it's possible to grow mint by simply cutting some roots off an old pot and transplanting them into new pot.

Mint Growth

Germinated Chilli Seeds

Took about 2 weeks and really really hot weather to get a bunch of chilli seeds to germinate.

Carrot Growth

Amazing Pok Choy Growth

Transplanting Mint

Transplanted a few mint roots from my existing mint plant into a new green pot.

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.

Cos Lettuce Seedling Day 2. 

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.

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.

Size of the chilli plant on 10 March

Growing Potatoes. Success!

After one failed attempt of growing potatoes, round 2 is finally showing some progress.

Pok Choy Progress 10-3-2013

Pok Choy growing beautifully inside cling-wrap DIY greenhouse

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.

Pok Choy Progress

16 days after germination.