I’m glad to report that our watermelon plants managed to recover after the aphid attack a couple of months ago. It took a while, but they have started growing new, healthy leaves, and the vines are doing their best to … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
We’ve had kangkong or water convolvulus growing here for a couple of years now. I’ve grown the plants in recycled PET bottles, flower pots, and directly in the ground. Each time, the plants have borne pristine white flowers. Last week, … Continue reading
We finally decided to harvest one of our mighty marrows – the younger one, because my mum was worried that the marrow would be too old, and I was unwilling to snip off the first one because it’s still growing … Continue reading
They come as a set, powdery mildew and the yellow ladybug. And since there’s an abundance of powdery mildew, no thanks to the wet weather at this time of year, there’s been an increase in the numbers of the little … Continue reading