Saturday, August 13, 2016
Miracle Plant
The most magical plant in my garden is this miracle fruit. I can enjoy an hour of eating sour fruits in my garden like wild strawberry, mulberry, calamansi, camias etc. and they are all sweet! When they bear fruit, they give my garden a bonus. I can go around my garden eating sour fruits without the sour taste. God is good....
My Pepper Collection
I love collecting pepper of any variety. Here are some pictures of the peppers I have in my garden.
Habanero
Yellow Passion Fruit
It takes a year for a passion fruit to bear fruit from a new plant. Last August 2015 i planted 3 vines and starting July 2016 some ripe yellow fruits start falling off from the mango tree and trellis where the vines were crawling. Now, I have lots and lots of passion fruits for my juice mixed with honey--- not only for my family but for my officemates as well who also love the juice. My daily dosage of Vit. C is taken cared of by my passion fruit juice. I have read that they have more Vit. C content than any citrus fruit.
l love my passion fruit vines. They are so generous with fruits and are part of my "plant and leave it" variety of edible plants.
My Goji Berry
It was my dream to have a goji berry plant in my garden. Last year I bought some dried gojis but wasn't sure if they were sundried. Nonetheless, in June 2016 I tried planting them but one month passed and nothing sprouted. I chanced again another store that had dried gojis and bought a pack at P250. Again, I planted them hoping to be lucky this time. A week after, lo and behold they sprouted!!! And my old planting likewise sprouted after a month!! Now I have these new seedlings which I take care every night after work. Some survive but a lot died from overwatering. Here are my new babies....
Friday, March 11, 2016
Perline Heart visits Hardin ni Juan.
Perline is my youngest visitor so far at the farm. She is a beautiful and healthy baby growing up gracefully.
Seedlings for tomorrow
When I eat fruits, I save the seeds and plant them. I don't know how long they will bear fruit. I always believe that what you plant today, you always have that hope they will bear fruit sometime. You reap what you sow.
1) Pomegrenate
Sometime August 2015, bought a pomegrate fruit from Suki market. It was big and had succulent seeds. I planted the seeds and I have 5 seedlings growing. The vendor told me it was from vietnam.
2) Giant Ponkan
Sometime February 2016, I bought a very big ponkan for P100. It was as big as pomelo. The seeds grow beautifully.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Bush strawberry
This wild strawberry was sold to me in December 2014 by a horticulturist at QC memorial circle. It is thorny and grows uncontrollably. The fruits are small and sour.
Blackberries
My friend Bussie and her husband gave me a twig of backberry last july 4, 2015 when we visited them at ponderosa, silang, cavite. The mother plant of their blackberry is in Guam. I planted two blackberries from the twig and this january 2016, I saw some flowers. By february 14, 2016, I ate some fruits already. They tasted sour. I hope I can make them sweet.
Tomatoes
I love cherry tomatoes for my salad of arugula, purslane, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Aside from cherry tomatoes, i love heirloom tomatoes. They organically grow as vine in my garden. I pick them fresh when i need them - their sweetness is incomparable!
Coffee
It is valentine's day. I smell the sweet scent of white coffee flowers as I enter the farm entrance. It smells heavenly!
Pol timely harvested the red ripe coffee beans at the back of the gazebo.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
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