A short video clip of My Small Backyard Garden in Ipoh this morning when it rained. ( Video captured from an upper floor's room. )
It was a busy, busy garden that day!
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| My Small Backyard Garden this past Thursday - Pictures taken after I had all the chores done. |
My Small Backyard Garden had been a particularly busy place and full of activities of all sorts this past Thursday!
I could be seen busy potting and repotting, fertilising, trimming and watering my plants the whole afternoon.
Millipedes were seen busy wandering about the long, ground level and pot planters after I had all my plants fed with buffalo manure.
Some snails which were initially found resting under the damp, little spaces under the two compost bins and some pot planters, were seen climbing up the Daun Kaduk ( Piper sarmentosum ), Frangipani ( Plumeria sp. ), and Okinawan Spinach ( Gynura bicolor ) plants in broad daylight afrer I had their resting places disturbed.
A garden lizard was seen running for its dear life when I got near the potted Coconut Palm ( Cocos nucifera ) where it was found resting on, thinking I would bring harm of some sort.
A beautiful, pure white butterfly was seen fluttering around the now starting to flower Thai Basil ( Ocimum basilicum ) plants on the long, ground level planter.
At least two busy bees were seen busily buzzing around the remaining cluster of flowers of the potted Coral Vine ( Antigonon leptopus ).
Lots of larvae, worms and insects were seen busying themselves in the soil and compost bins for food.
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A beautiful, pure white butterfly was seen fluttering around the now starting to flower Thai Basil ( Ocimum basilicum ) plants on the long, ground level planter.
At least two busy bees were seen busily buzzing around the remaining cluster of flowers of the potted Coral Vine ( Antigonon leptopus ).
Lots of larvae, worms and insects were seen busying themselves in the soil and compost bins for food.
And finally, some forever unfavoured coo roo-c'too-coo sounds and unwelcomed sights of the neighbourhood pigeons from and at a neighbour's rooftop were heard at and seen from My Small Backyard Garden. Thank goodness they did not choose to land on mine!
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Sweet Potatoes Again!
The recent dry and super hot days had my water-loving Sweet Potato ( Ipomoea batatas ) vines on the front planter looking extremely sad and ' thirsty ' when I returned to my home in Ipoh after my year-end retreat at a nearby Buddhist Society was over the other day. The pitiful sight of them had me wanted to pick up the water hose immediately and give them all a real good bath and drink. But, considering the fact that they were already five months old, I decided to have them all, removed and their edible enlarged roots ( sweet potatoes ), dug up instead. Before I had the whole planter, with the newly-planted Sweet Potato cuttings and the three, five months old Tapioca ( Manihot esculenta ) plants in it, thoroughly watered.
The dug up sweet potatoes weigh a mere 840 grams this time ( about half less than the last time ) but I am quite contented nevertheless. Because I had much of their leaves harvested and consumed this past five months. So the worth of growing the vines were definitely no less.
Yesterday, I had them all ( the sweet potatoes ) cleaned and kept inside the refrigerator for sweet soup-making on Chinese New Year day which is not too far off.
Till then only, could I get to have a taste them! Oh, how I wish now, that time COULD FLY!
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