In this case, I’m not talking about lessons learned from making mistakes (like I normally share). Last week, we hosted a friend who has a small farm in Thailand. While I needed an interpreter to translate, some things just spoke … Continue reading
Category Archives: Gardening issues
I decided to carry out a bit of an experiment with a pair of aubergine plants that germinated some months ago. Well, this was after they germinated together in the same pot and grew a few true leaves each. I … Continue reading
Aussies call it the banana bell, but locally, we refer to the bud on the flowering stalk of the banana plant as the heart, or “jantung” in Malay. Calling it the heart of the plant makes sense, because it is … Continue reading
Self-seeding plants can be a blessing or a curse. Those I put in the latter category are usually considered weeds (and we have several varieties of them!), but those that I’m happy to see are “useful”. Take our roselle plants … Continue reading