Our lil garden has grown!

Calamintha... hyrangea... calla lily...spiky cactus, our green thumbs has gotten the better of us. Now the porch has an array of natural beauties to greet us.  We had initially thought of transferring our sprouting brinjal plant into another pot, hence we needed more soil. Which brought us to the nursery and instead of coming back with soil we came back with 3 kinds of flowers! Talk about impulsive shopping!

 

The porch is definitely a livelier place with the flowers. It's great to wake up to a burst of colour and teaming life. Might I add, gardening is actually quite therapeutic.

 

 

Don't worry we did not ignore our slow growing brinjal plant. Here's the latest update for those of you who have been asking and wondering - still leafy, new greens popping up occassionally, no signs of fruits yet, stems are quite thin. We're pumping up its growth with fertilizers but being careful not to overdose it! Any tips to make it fruit faster? I'm waiting to make grilled brinjals:)

To end this post, here's a lil insight into a different side of Terence when his green thumbs are busy:

1. He's meticulous even when putting fertiliser, remembering how much each plant needs and when to sprinkle.
   
2. He has greener thumbs than me. That's why I leave the planting to him, I just water and talk to them.
   
3. I'm quite sure he talks to them after I leave for work in the morning... cos they are blooming!

Brinjal updates!

It’s sprouting! The seeds are gone and we can now see green shoots. What a joy to see evident growth. By golly, if we’re so excited even to see young sprouts from our brinjal plant, can you imagine what excitement we’d exude when lil Terence and Deb comes along?!

Now now now, don’t get side tracked, this post about updates of our brinjal plant. Here are some facts you’d be interested to know about this purple fruit, yes it’s a fruit not a vegetable! (Just like tomatoes are fruits too!) And did you know that in China back in the 5th century affluent women used to make a dye out of the purple brinjal skin and polish their teeth with it until they were a shiny. Talk about organic teeth dye!

And if you ever get lost in the jungle, look out for brinjal plants because the fruit is made out of 95% water. It’ll quench your thirst and silence your hunger pangs! I better stop raving about this fruit and get back to tending the plant (btw Terence has greener thumbs than me, I just water and ‘talk’ to it)

Exercising our green thumbs

We adopted a new hobby last weekend. We visited a nursery in Section 17 thinking of buying a plant for my office space. We ended up with 2 packets of soil, fertilizer, brinjal seeds and a pot of daisy.

There's always a first for everything - this was our first try at gardening. I've heard many stories on gardening, Some people can make flowers bloom, others can care for the plant until it produced fruit. But there are also some people who just didn't seem to grow or maintain a plant, it would simple wither even if they followed all the steps. Green thumbs, it's either you have 'em or not. We've yet to find out!


Our pot of daisy, Caring for this plant is fairly simple. Just water it once every 4 days, sprinkle some fertilizer every week and it'll bloom:)

So many seeds to choose from. We decided on brinjal since the uncle said that it's the easiest to plant.

Getting ready to plant. Terence with the brinjal seeds in his hands. They look exactly like cili seeds. It still baffles me how these seeds will soon sprout roots, leaves and (hopefully) brinjals.

The process of sowing the seeds was fairly easy. Mix two kinds of soils and fill the pot 3/4. Water the soil thoroughly then sprinkle the seeds on top. Water again and embed the seeds onto the surface of the soil. That's it! We need to now water the soil every 2 days and soon we'd see green sprouts! Can't wait to see the first glimpses of life. Till then... more green thumbs stories to come.