Since we move to this home 2 years ago, me and my mom started to develop our free space into our own miniature home garden. We started out real small and only a few plants. However, since the pandemic we got to focus on growing and nurturing new plants. And its a joy to be able to share this passion not just with my family but to all of you.
At the side of our house, we also turned it into a vertical garden by just using some leftover sticks from scrap yards. We have been growing Malabar Spinach or basella or what we call Alugbati in our local dialect here in Cebu, Philippines. We grow this to use on our vegetable soup recipes. Yes to sustainable food!
We used to grow other vegetables such as Bitter Gourd or Amapalaya and eggplants too however we stopped growing them because those vegetables only grow half of their expected sizes.
Aside from those, you can see the Dracaena Reflexa or Song of India plants on the bottom. This type of plant can be both outdoor and indoor. Care is relatively easy and its colors give a little bit of brightness to this side of the garden.
Besides the Alugbati, we also have Moringa or Malunggay and Spring onions to add on our list of veggies we cook from our garden.
Our aglaonemas our Chinese evergreens have been just beautifully growing. See that bud? Cant wait for it to bloom! However this type of plant can't tolerate too much heat so during noon time we cover them up with a mini roof using a thin cloth.
Above are my babies for this month. On the far left, we got one of the stems from its mother plant and replanted. On the middle, I got some roots from a friend and told me to grow them. Excited to know what this one is. And on the far right, two new stems have grown from my Calathea. Thinking of moving this one to a much bigger pot. Mom says to wait till the new leaf blooms before I replant it.
Moving on to another part of our garden. We grew here most of our mayana coleus plants. We needed to protect them from birds constantly cutting on newly grown stems so we installed a net house around them. Once our Mayana plants are a bit big, we moved them up to our beach house.
We do have one particular plant or "leaf" here we are keeping an eye on. We were experimenting on growing with just a leaf after reading some article in the internet. It said to submerge the stem part of the newly cut leaf in water and just leave it there to grow its roots. We didn't believed it at first but we were shocked to find out this:
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