tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69779634022048484152024-03-14T14:15:25.991+08:00My little vegetable gardenHome Vegetable gardening in Malaysia. (Tanam sayur dan bunga di rumah.)Bangchik and Kakdahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12539360678677230463noreply@blogger.comBlogger992125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977963402204848415.post-53185396520023626532019-09-29T20:46:00.000+08:002019-09-30T21:08:04.740+08:00Matoa at Desa Seri IskandarThis matoa tree has a story of its own. We joined a group tour to Batam Island way back in 2015. Over a lunch there we were served with matoa fruits as desert. Woalla, such exotic taste!... , I put it as extremely delicious and must have surpassed all other fruits I have tasted before. I collected about 50 seeds and brought back home. Haha...<br />
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To my surprise, all seeds germinated. Only two seedlings found their way to my little garden in Seri Iskandar. The rest were distributed as gifts.<br />
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Five years later, the two matoa trees reach maturity and for the first time they bloom and put on nice display of fruits.<br />
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We will wait for the first harvest in two months time....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">matoa flowers 7/9/2019</td></tr>
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A young lady Nor Hidayah came to the office last week for her doctoral research. I was chosen as her expert panel for professional inputs, which I gladly accepted, to ease out her quest for knowledge. The central issue is sustainability. While going through the discussion, I pointed out <i>FOREST</i> as the best example of sustainability, the fact that forest exist within a system that is self propelled. We may emulate contributing factors in forest sustainability into other systems.</div>
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This particular post is about Leucaena, which many would happily regard as a nuisance, or invasive. Folks around here call it as petai belalang. I on the hand place Leucaena as a treasure. Leucana has small leaves which would fall off from time to time. So small the leaves, that they blend well with grass underneath and decay in no time, adding organic matter to the soil. Some snails may venture out at night munching leaves on the ground, and probably leave poos behind , again as first class organic fertiliser in ready form. And that is a recipe for sustainability.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pic 1: Leucaena alongside Moringa, both with fine leaves<br />
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dropping leaves regularly as agent of organic matter</td></tr>
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The interest to grow pigeon peas began over the last two years, as we were beginning to get hooked on permaculture. I bought the first batch of pigeon pea seeds through ebay. The seeds came from Thailand, which share similar climate like ours; hot, humid and wet. </div>
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Two trees died during monsoon season in tandem with reports I read about pigeon peas don't really like water log. The rest are still growing, two in Putrajaya Backyard Garden, another four in Seri Iskandar Home. However none seems to be flowering after 1 and a half years. The seeds packet mentioned about maturity period of about 160-180 days which adds up to 5 to 6 months. So what went wrong with our pigeon pea tree? Lets see if the dry spell of March and April can induce much awaited flowerings. </div>
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Last month, while searching for early maturing variety, I came up to etsy online. 50 seeds altogether, it was suggested to grow them at shorter intervals, 3 feet apart. Once these little seedlings toughen a little bit, they become my hope of pigeon peas flowerings and fruiting. Before the end of the year, some conclusions can be made about backyard pigeon peas cultivation. </div>
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I have been successful with sorghum and sunn hemp, who knows pigeon peas will not end with dissappointment.</div>
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<b>pigeon pea seedlings of early maturing variety</b></div>
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We put our self into groups we call race,where as for banana and other fauna we call variety. Pisang tanduk is a variety that produce the longest banana, sometimes reaching a foot long. Pisang emas is almost the opposite, small yet sweet.</div>
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I am yet to see how pisang emas will end up in our garden. Its Zila again, giving 5 pisang emas seedlings a few monts back. I wonder if I will be able to see them fruiting, because by October this year, we will shift to our retirement home in Seri Iskandar. Zila did mention about pisang emas requiring 9 months to mature.</div>
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Moringa is a fast growing tree. In October 2016, its height was 20 feet, now its well over 30 feet. Visible in the pictures, are a few moringa fruits or sometime called drumsticks dangling in the air. We had picked a few drumsticks at the lower branches for curry adds on. </div>
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The tree isn't two year old yet, but it towers over everything else in our garden and lawn under its shade, is getting a lot greener.</div>
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Crotalaria pallida was primarily grown as nitrogen fixer and cover crop in plantations in the early days before mucuna bracteata and a few other legumes become popular. For small backyard gardens like ours, crotalaria pallida is both useful and suitable. Its very manageable and neat. If it grows too tall and leggy, it wouldn't mind a bit of pruning.</div>
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Three crotalaria pallida at the edge of mengkudu tree. </div>
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Lighter green of crotalaria soften </div>
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Dreams of good harvest had been short lived with papaya lately. Leaves turned yellow over a week or two, and the whole papaya tree became weak and died within two weeks. I guess it's erwinia papayae a bacterial pathogen, at work. It's also known as bacterial crown rot.<br />
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Much has been said about Oxalis barrelieri on its medicinal benefits, but it remains as weeds, growing freely as it likes.. Since my lawn is regularly mowed, it cant appear in the center of things. True to its wild traits,Oxalis barrelieri emerge at awkward places where lawnmower would not venture; flower pots, edges of lawn, near drains, underneath trees. </div>
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The berries taste exactly like starfruits (belimbing), therefore it is widely known as belimbing tanah or belimbing pasir in Malaysia.</div>
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Over here it is known as markisa, a vine that lasts for more than 5 years. It will start flowering and fruiting after a year. I germinated quite a number of them last year, most were given away to friends, 2 of them planted in Seri Iskandar home garden and one is grown here in Putrajaya backyard garden.</div>
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<i>Passiflora_edulis , Markisa (Melayu) </i></div>
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<i>passionfruit (English), maracuya (Spanish) , granadille (French), </i></div>
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<i>maracuja (Portugese), liliko'i (Hawaiian)</i> </div>
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The passionfruit vines will thicken and eventually cover up the whole trellis. In the meantime , taro (keladi) can still grow and use the space underneath.<br />
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<i>I remembered putting all garden waste, leaves, and empty clay pots on 5 feet diameter spot, and left the organic matter to rot for about 3 months. The first to be planted right in the centre there was one lucky mengkudu seedling, and later followed by other plants as companions The decayed organic matter must have soften the soil and make it really fertile for mengkudu tree to grow that fast. Another friend who had been given seedlings, had his tree half the size.</i><br />
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Kakdah had tried using mengkudu shoots as ulam or salad. I expect it to be bitter, but it turned out to like cooked cabbage. The fruit is something else. When it is ripe, it smells awful, but it has all the medicinal values where extracts had long been packed and sold in drug stores.<br />
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Bangchik and Kakdahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12539360678677230463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977963402204848415.post-10883753440844548772016-10-24T08:00:00.001+08:002016-10-24T08:00:17.405+08:00Moringa flowers - SECOND WEEKPlants behave differently. Each has its own peculiarity as when to flower and when to bear fruits. Our single moringa tree has its first burst of flowers. Its all white except for slight yellowish filaments. Within a week, the buds open up the pure white petals, for insects to come and enjoy the taste of nature. The nectar!<br />
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I had used coconut husk as vegetable garden borders while gardening at Presint 14 years ago. Now I am using wooden sticks to mark or put border where the seedlings are, to avoid trampling on them, and to discourage cats from pooing over the tiny plants. Living in urban place like Putrajaya, wooden sticks are not easy to find. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">One birds nest fern appeared as tiny baby beside Kakdah's roses pot sometime last year. I quickly had it transferred in a pot half filled with soil and let it grow under shade. It had grown big and healthy now.</span></div>
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Old car boot tray, black in colour had seen its best years where it should be, in our old car. It makes saturday marketing quite presentable. It will contain fish, chicken, meat and vegetables. We also have quite a collection of old paint and putty containers. They are now into second phase of their useful life in gardening.<br />
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It was a day before Ilah's engagement that all of us spent a night at Yop's place, . He is now working as an Eletrical Engineer with Tenaga Nasional Berhad. He is stationed at Chenderoh Hydro Electric Dam which is the oldest hydro electric dam in Malaysia. </div>
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I took this picture early in the morning. Even though there was nothing much to see, the mood was very cool and soothing as mists softened the contrasting hills and water below.<br />
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Demand for this special plant or rather grass soared for the past few years due to media coverage on a cancer patient supposedly cured beyond the three years and getting healthier after consuming sabah snake grass.<br />
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Two years ago, Sulong Yahaya our dearest friend gave away one polybag of snake grass (Clinacanthus nutans). He is very much into herbal world. "Pick 7 fresh leaves of sabah snake grass and chew them everyday", he prescribed. Originally it was used to treat snake bites hence its name sabah snake grass. Nowadays it is magical in cancer prevention, detoxification and blood circulation. It also regulates kidney functions, cholesterol and blood pressure.<br />
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The plant seems to enjoy wet and shady environment. So I put sabah snake grass in the same habitat as taro and banana, and also in pots.<br />
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Bangchik and Kakdahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12539360678677230463noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977963402204848415.post-63599745753295739992016-09-21T08:00:00.001+08:002016-09-21T08:00:00.168+08:00fungi feasting on old tree trunk<div style="text-align: center;">
There was this huge <i>pokok payung indonesia</i> (Hura Crepitans) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "droid serif" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span>on the right side of our house. I remembered having to sweep and collect old leaves everyday which was very good for compost pile. The tree was chopped down, when the Putrajaya Holdings decided that it had grown too tall and too big for safety reasons. </div>
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A year later, the decaying tree stump plays host to the world of fungi, plants and other living creatures.</div>
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Fungi has a world of itself. Since fungi cannot make its food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide as plants do, they must take in food from other organism. Decaying trees are the most common place to look for fungi.<br />
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<br />Bangchik and Kakdahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12539360678677230463noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977963402204848415.post-2436848163008745332016-09-19T08:00:00.002+08:002016-09-19T08:00:00.145+08:00Papaya, with a light mulch.It will be sad, if this papaya tree emerge as male. I hope that will not happen. The previous attempt ended with all three male papaya, with small white flowers dangling from long stalks. It started when I took pity on papaya seedlings emerging in one of Kakdah's flower pots. Ater carefully transplanting them on the ground, a few months later, the three papaya tree were teasing me " sorry, you got three males, ." To sooth injured ego, I let them grow for awhile, Anyway its not too bad having male papaya, the flowers are good for salad.<br />
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But the current experiment with papaya will hopefully be all females. The seeds were clinically selected. Two varieties are grown right now. The first type had been grown here last year, which had produced lots of fruits and the second was given by Farah. She was our eldest daughter now in Jitra Kedah<br />
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Mulch around the base of young papaya tree is like kids with socks. Mulch will protect plants during hot weather. I can leave them on their own when we need to be away for a few days. The safest approach to collect mulching material is to grow them. Grasses offer decent source, like lemongrass and napier grass.<br />
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Bangchik and Kakdahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12539360678677230463noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6977963402204848415.post-42725285145764900462016-09-17T08:00:00.000+08:002016-09-17T08:00:10.823+08:00MULBERRY, not enough for everyone.A friend commented about balanced diet recently. He said we were designed to withstand the worst situation on food we take. In the early days of human existence, he imagined that food wasn't very regular, men would go out hunting animals and collecting edible fruits and shoots on the way home. People would eat later half of the day, probably only once a day. Food would be varied according to what they managed to bring back home. No standard daily menu.<br />
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Once men settle down, no more nomadic hunters, there would be chickens, goats, cattle, fruit trees and vegetables around the homes. Then food became regular and of standard menu.<br />
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I was looking at my only mulberry tree grown in a pot. It has been with us for almost 10 years. I wonder if glimpses of early days of human existence is coming up. One mulberry tree, potted to make it even worse, cant be enough for everyone. <br />
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Wani and Arif came last month, and they had a bite at these mulberries. I promised them mulberry jam next year. I need to grow more mulberry plants!<br />
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