Miniature Vegetable Farm

It had been a long month for Chinese New Year celebration. And we had been clocking miles driving between the two homes. While the journey wasn't all that smooth as we wished for, plenty of jams as usual, the long drive on the road was nice. We did not get to spend much time together the past couple of months, and time on the drive was a nice catching-up time. We finally reached our home in KL last week. 

We went back to routine pretty quickly, work, houseworks, and gardening. The last round of vegetables that we planted did not make it to harvest. Some caught some moldy stuff from another seedling, some stopped growing and some simply died from thirst - the hubby was too busy to water them when I was not around. The only warrior that remains standing was a single broccoli. It looked promising and I re potted it directly to the ground. 

We had also added an amateur watering system to feed water directly to the garden. We had installed a water filtering system for the entire house when we first moved in. As part of the filter cleaning, the filter was set to an automatic timer and it would self clean on daily basis. To make use of the water that get flush out during the self cleaning, we attached pipe extension and ran it to the inner garden bed which was sheltered from both rain and direct sun. It was not the most advance system, but at least the soil should be moist enough to prevent seedlings dying from thirst again. 

Hence, last weekend, we made our way to our favourite nursery in Sunway intending to pick up some flowers for the front garden bed. And we found treasures! There was this uncle who gave us tips on how to grow vegetables and we got some really good quality seeds from him. We didn't feel the seeds were more expensive than those that we usually get from the supermarket. He taught us to keep the remaining seeds in the fridge if we are not able to finish them. 

We potted the seeds into a potting tray that very same day. Guess what! The seeds sprouted after two days!

We repotted some of the seedlings that sprouted over the last two days before we went off to Genting for an overnight stay. Six rows of a mini Choy Sum farm when I was done! 

We planted some Kangkong seeds directly to the ground, potted some lady fingers and chili padi. Hopefully the next trip when I am back in KL, the choy sum would be ready for harvest and seedlings from the rest would have sprouted healthily!