Vegetable Gardening - a new start

Seri Kembangan, Malaysia.

We dont seem to get tired of gardening. Kakdah clings to her orchids and ornamental plants, and I more into vegetable gardening.  We are coming to a phase of life, much different to what we are used to. The house is typical malaysian double storey. Space is very limited both at the front and back. We have to reduce the number of pots used.

I was flicking through the earlier posts on container gardening.  We had gone through several elaborate attempts on growing vegetables in pots such as  onions  ,   pakchoy,  kale / kailan,    daun sup,  cabbage,  etc.

the old kucai

Of the many vegetables we grew in Johor, we only take kucai along. Kucai never seems to stop growing, they grow quietly, they stay low and happy. Now  onions and spinach start to grow and be part of the ealier pioneers here.

bawang - onions in two small pots

bayam - spinach in large container

Yeap, we have a lot more seeds, but they have  to wait for their turn.

__________bangchik and kakdah__________

seri kembangan

growing onions / tanam bawang

We are growing onions in pots; one rectangular pot and three round pots. Onions are always eager to grow. The moment the top sections were cut off and the onions put into soil, within two days  little shoots would appear. Why grow onions we may want to ask ourselves, I would say onions are easiest to grow. To keep enthusiasm of a new gardener, onion definitely is a must. It would make any new gardener happy to see onions producing leaves within days and the first set of leaves can cut off for omellette.

onions in round pots

onions: 3 in each

onions

6 onions in rectangular pot

6 onions in rectangular pot

It was quite early around 8.30 am. Sunday mornings offer ample freedom to view plants and take pictures as we like. Other days, life is on a faster mode.  There are always new things that we learned about plants. The other day I realised that our passionfruit vines (markisa) opened their exotic flowers later in the day around 6pm. The next morning, the flowers folded up. I suppose insects will help pollinating the flowers throughout the night. Our life is very much daytime, we may not realise there are insects coming out at night and sleep as soon as the sun is about to appear. Nocturnal.....

It was early, so the shadows were long.....

 I just played around with camera height to come out with a set of pictures about onions,

 fifteen altogether, 6 in rectangular pot and 3 each in the round pots.

bangchik and kakdah

pasir gudang