I think it is safe to say that I managed to get another success on my small garden at my tiny house. The time it took for me to make this post is quite long since the first time I took the photo of the seedling, and then finally the healthy adult one.
At first, I wanted to make some kind of report but failed to do so and I kept postponing it until I harvested them all. I was planting some green vegetables into my garden, There's a funny story at the beginning, from my failure to buy the correct seed, and then I sow the seed for far too many that I could handle so I needed some time to prepare the nursery spot for them to grow into the adult one.
You can see how old I kept the seeding in the sowing tray before I managed to find the spot to transfer them. My second stupid mistake during the process, hindered the growth of the seedling thus making the harvest time a little bit longer.
Then I also faced one of ultimate pest of the vegetable, it is the green caterpillar, not sure when the butterfly visit my seeding and lay eggs on it, but all I can see is when the caterpillar is this big, and its already munching on my yummy leafy vegetable.
The solution is quite simple since my garden is not that big, and the vegetable is not that much. all I needed to do was to do a small inspection every other day, and when I saw one of them hanging around, I just luck them out and kill them. Feel bad that I could not let them live, as I also love to photograph them in the wild, but I should take care of them if I want to have some vegetables to harvest.
Finally, I got some soil and a place to transfer the old seeding. I used an old grape container as the growing equipment. Try to reuse things. ;)
And then here is the result when they are ready to harvest. Looks so healthy and tasty. I don't use any pesticide, or chemical fertilizer. I use the liquid fertilizer that I get from the compost container that I have at home.
Here is the other one. I use the poly bag for the rest, and I have reused it for quite some time already.
And then here are some of the vegetables that I sow in the hanging garden on the outer side of my house wall. You can see that it already has some flowers growing, it is because I sow them directly in the slot, so they grow a lot faster. This also indicated that if you sow them in the sowing try, you have to transfer them into the growing area once it is ready, if you fail to do so, then the harvest will come later as it grow a lot slower.
The flower is so beautiful, isn't it? Not sure what I will do with it, maybe I will keep it to see what it will be in the future.
Here you can see another plant on th hanging garden slot. It grows so nice and big, but you can also see some of the holes in the leaf, as the result of the caterpillar attack in the past. If you are supporting organic gardens, then this kind of flaws will be regular in some of the harvests. Are you really ready for it, or do you wish to have them without any flaws?
I am a Balinese man, a father of a toddler son, working in the hospitality industry, who has recently found a passion for macro photography. I want to share the photos that I've taken here on Hive. I appreciate any comments or feedback you leave on my posts and kindly invite you to be part of my journey in this vast Hive Ocean. Thank you very much |
