Pak Choy- another hard try

This is my another attempt to grow Pak Choy. Snails have been my biggest enemy! They munch the plants over the night! By morning there will be no sign of this vegetable!

Luckily this time some have been saved! I turn evil. I pour around the snail poison and I see many snails died. There is no sorry for them! It's a war for almost 2 years! A tough war using environment friendly method but it fail miserably!

Below is my first water plant with guppies to control mosquitoes breeding! First flower! It's a start of beautiful day!

Petola Ular and stir fry

Petola plants have been producing few petola last week. They are not long like the market bought one! It's called snake gourd in english since the long appearance. Mine is short!

Another view

I harvested 4 of them. Enough for me took cook meal for the family! 

I harvest them last weekend and stir fry them right away. Fresh from the garden. It has light sweet taste like cucumber! I never tasted them this tasty in market bought one!!

 It gives me every reason to plant vegetables at home! ;)

GBBD - August 2016

The weather have been so hot this month too! I try to water the vegetables twice daily. Flowering plants are only watered once. Nevertheless they survive the hot weather!

These are some of the flowers blooming in my garden.

The white beauties!

The purple queen Duranta

Adenium pink and red flowers in full bloom!

Costus long stalk!

The ever flowering yellow

Hibiscus plants have been trimmed down. Currently only 1 bloom is available.

Marigold bloom! It's located at the vegetable bed so it receive watering twice daily!

What are blooming in your garden despite the weird weather?

I think the flowering plants wish for rain too! Let's hope it rain soon to all the places facing drought now!

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Pegaga or Gotu kola

Pegaga have been producing a lot of leaves. It disappear for about 6 months and make a come back last month. I think it went into hibernation like the polar bear! ;)

Luckily I never discharge the soil in this pot. It was left under the mango tree. Out of nowhere, suddenly I saw it regrow back last month! Miracle of gardening I guess!

This leaves are very beneficial. I have wrote about the benefit few years ago. This herbs is so much welcomed to my garden! 

It's time for petola again! The plants have been producing a lot of little long petola.

Caterpillars have attacked the vines while I turn my back on the plant! I have eliminate this pest last weekend. I hope Petola will be happy to produce fruits from now on!

The matured petola for seeds collection

Little dangling petola fruit!

Banana close up

Finally I manage to take a photo of closer look of the banana fruit. There were so many leaves blocking the fruits previously. I chop down some of the leaves.

This is suppose to be small size banana or called "pisang emas" in Malay. They taste sweet and can be made dessert called "kuih cekodok". This dessert is made from flour, bananas and salt. Just mix and fry them. It's palatable dessert during tea break!

Apart from that,  it's also suitable to make cake as it has natural sweet taste! I just can't wait for the fruit to ripe!