At last, I have some free time

Last week I transplanted my moonflower.


This week they are doing well.


My basil finally grew a second set of leaves!


Prickly borage leaves.


My GIANT borage plants, need to transplant someday, when I can buy some more soil.



My ginger last week, pretty big.

My ginger this week, pretty HUGE!


Borage in a bag.

My Beautiful plants!

Awesome!

So while I was inspecting my ginger plant today, I was expecting nothing as usual. But today was different, I noticed a tiny sprout poking out of the dirt. It's probably no more than 3mm tall.


It only took the ginger 2 weeks to sprout, on all the websites it says ginger will take up to a month to sprout. So my ginger is twice as fast! I think it must be due to my peanut can greenhouse, it increases the temperature inside the container by 5 degrees.


Surprise! My basil sprang back to life after my liberal watering last night.


Though these dangling leaves still show signs of trauma, they will undoubtedly survive.


So these are the basil plants I started from seed back in April.


They are puny.


This is just to give you a sense of their height.


This is the plan for a trellis (for my moonflowers). I was hoping to build it, but I can't find any wood. I think I'm just going to tie some bamboo sticks together.

Second week, after the drought

So I left my moonflower for a week, no water, only sun and this is what happened! It grew! I am astounded. This is wonderful, it doubled, maybe tripled in size while I was away.


I'm going to have to build a trellis for it soon, look at the vigorous vine it is growing!


My imitation greenhouse using a newspaper bag and elastic band. Thanks to this baby my borage didn't die, it concealed the moisture in so my lack of watering didn't kill the plant.


The look from above, the true leaves are starting to pop up everywhere.


So strong!


On a somber note, my basil plant is not doing so well. I have learned that basil NEEDS water. A week without it and this is what happens. I will do all that is humanly possible to revive my friend, hopefully my efforts will pay off.

Pictures of my plants

My borage plants, sowed them from seed a week ago and they are already bigger than my basil seedlings which I planted in April. I blame it on the weather around here, it is too cold for my basil.


From the side. They are about 1.5" tall in the picture, now the tallest is around 2-2.5 inches.


Pole I set up where I would drape plastic wrap over the pot to imitate a greenhouse.



My ginger plant. Not visible yet, but I know it's there. How do I know this? Well I heard it took a month for ginger to sprout or something like that so I thought there mustn't be any growth yet, and fearing the soil was too shallow I tried to dig the root out to replant it deeper only to find little teeth like sprouts growing out of it so I stopped digging and just added some more soil on top to increase the depth.


These are my newly discovered moonflowers, I started them from seeds just a little over a week ago and look how big they've grown!


Moonflower pot sits atop the prime ministers of Canada poster.


This is my lovely grown up basil plant. I bought it for $2.99 at a grocery store. I thought my own basil were growing TOO slowly. I do not have pictures of my basil now. But they are only 1" tall and they were planted in April, more than 4 months ago!

First day

Today I am starting my blog about gardening. Right now I am focusing my energy on these plants: Moonflower, Borage, Ginger, Basil, Garlic.

Moonflower - big flowers that bloom at night
Borage - herb with a fresh cucumber scent
Ginger - tropical plant harvested for its root
Basil - very popular herb
Garlic - a member of the onion family used commonly in cooking

I don't know if I can handle so many plants since I am a beginner at this, only time will tell.