Parsley , Squash, Salad Green & others

 

 

We´re truly blessed with sunny days the last 2 weeks and that´s good for my potted garden... The newbies are getting bigger day by day.

 

 

...and I can´t wait to make the first harvest of the parsley and the salad greens...

 

 

 

 We´ll have to wait for the fruits of the bell peppers as their early beginnings in the pot weren´t that good due to cold weather last mid June.

 

But,  they´re now showing lots of flowers and I already noticed a pepper popping out the last couple of days. 

I never miss using empty cracker containers for the salad greens and I´m getting more of empty ones once  a month..

I actually started using three of these to give color to my terrace, but then,  they seemed to have grown in numbers as we  emptied cans  of Skyflakes Crackers imported from the Philippines.

I´ll start to harvest my salad greens later today, I´m sure they´ll be crispy and delicious.

 

The chinese cabbage called pechay (paksoi)  grew so fast.. Its Images are still lingering  on my mind when their seeds were sowed a couple of weeks ago for the first time..

 

Right now, I´m facing a problem with the salad greens, insects( larvae)  are enjoying them and six plants,  leaves  of which have been eaten up and the plant got devastated...hhhhmm! 

 

 

 

The Squash climbed up so fast in the trellis  I temporarily made for the purpose. Only thing is , I´m supposed to let its vine grow on the floor. Now, I´m vertically growing it for lack of space and am not sure how the giant fruit would hang from the top vine..   

I had to put a "bandage" ( masking tape) to straighten up the damage Squash vine..

The two potted bell peppers below love intensive sunshine and they feel great when watered at the end of the day  when I come home from work.

 

 

I´ll give an update about the first harvest of the greens in the next days.

 

Meanwhile, do enjoy your time as weekend slowly aproaches!

Thank you for taking time to read this blog.....

 

 

                                                      Xo Xo,

                                               Mercy

 

 

 

The Potted Lilies

 

They were planted in a hollow block (concrete) located on the top terrace of the house.
They seem to have gotten accustomed to the small space.

The lily bulbs came from a pack that I got from a Supermarket....
just trial and error planting, as I´m not used to planting bulbs.

 

 

 

During it´s 1st year, the stalks were just half of this year´s height.

and not much flowers were there.... Right now, we´re having an explosion of

its buds and we really didn´t expect such plant to grow in such a small space.

 

 

 

 

 

The bulbs were a mixture of yellow and peach color lilies and the stalks are so robust that they could withstand even if there is a gusty wind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are protected anyway, because the small terrace on top is surrounded by

walls and yet they still get so much sun. The top terrace is ideal also for growing

salad greens as well as other veggies in containers.

 

 

 

 

Part of the bulbs were also planted in my small backyard, but all were victims

of the slugs....they seem to be all over.

 

 

One remedy to reduce slugs/snails coming in the  Yard downstairs is to place a container of beer. They are so crazy to come and get " drunk".

They come in the night, that´s when they are active... their sense of smell is very

fine, that the beer container were always full of them the following morning. I gathered them and put them back to the fields not so far away from our house.

 

 

Along with the lilies, I also have a peony this year, that´s been growing nicely next to it, also in a hollow block. I hope that there will be blooms next year.

 

This one stalk has plenty of buds this year.

 

 

 

 

More of the lily buds.....

 

 

 

I hope that these lilies will continue to be as beautiful next year....Hope you have enjoyed  the flowers !

 

Happy Sunday everyone!

 

Til next,

 Mercy