Green Hand

I am not being known for a green hand, but nevertheless, it does excite me to watch things that I planted grow from the bud and become something pleasing to the eye. At the same time, after watching some stray flower blossoming single stalk of flowers in our bushy field full of weeds our mini garden, I found a secret on how to make my plant grow and give more flower buds.

It's fertilizer.... duh!!!

Last Saturday I told Babai I wanted to add to the collection of plants that I put there. Upon lvynana advice, I planned to potted my flower since the house we are staying right now is rented, and I don't want the landlord to get the benefit of my hardwork. And I thought I want to try do simple edible garden too. As usual, Babai just layan my whim muahahah...

So I bought some stuff at ACE Hardware in Ikano, Damansara Utama. Bought a small green potted plant from Ikea too.

My flower girl man. Macho or not?

My gears and equipment.. What do we have here? I chose sweet corn, decoration chili, sunflower seed and some shrub seedling for my first *cough* professional attemp. I had my Horti Organic Potting Mix, which was kinda expensive (RM10.50), Horti Jiffy Pot (RM5.50 for 5). Also bought a plastic pot, just in case my plants decided to grow overnight.

Here's a simple step to sow your plant.

Step 1: Do your sowing at night. This way your plant won't need fertilizer, or water, or sunshine. Ever.


Nolah. I made that up.
Fill up the Jiffy Pot with Horti Organic Potting Mix.



Damp the mixture with water. Drain the excess water.


Sow the seed. Here's sweet corn. My mom would definitely cringed if she knew I potted my corn haha. Temporary only la. Just my sterile test. I sowed the sunflower and the ornamental chillis too.


Put it under the shade, always make sure the mixture doesn't dry up, but not wet. By this morning, the shoot has already started to come out yahoo!! *Pat myself at the back*. That wasn't difficult isn't it?

Here's some of the plants that were already planted in the garden. Believe me, since a year ago, most of the plant doesn't really changed much in size. It only starting to show some improvement when I decided to spend RM2.50 for the Growth Fertilizer few weeks ago.

I called this Pokok Terbantut (Retarded Tree)

This Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) with pink flowers was courtesy of MBSJ. Don't ask me how Babai got it. Anyway this stalk is secondary stalk, the original plant died, and miracolously some of it seed manage to drop here and there before it died.

I get to see new bud blossom every other day! Very nice to look at..

Lovely.. albeit a bit thin. Ok laaa. A lottt thin.

Not bad la. At least it looks healthier, and 1 stalk can at least produce more than 5 buds at one life span now. Even the stalk also produce extra branch now. Happy leh...

Some edible Plant..

Here's Pandan Tree/Leaves

Ginger.. This one almost grow in my kitchen under the table, before I remove it here aharks..

Soon I want to introduce lemongrass and tapioca here. Last time Babai forbid me to plant edible plant here, he said it was suppose to go at the back. Ah! Don't care, I must fight his much loved weeds!


Not sure what is this called. A year ago, it was only slightly smaller than this when I first planted it. Not edible though. Here I tried Urea Fertilizer. I just wanna see whether it will fasten its growth.. Trial and error only.

This one a bit like cheating la.. but is ok..

We'll see how they grow in a few weeks. I hope it will be raining, but not too much, so I don't have to water my plants oopsss!! Lazy bum!