plants and plants and plants ...

are you getting sick of me talking about my plants?

oh well ... too bad cuz my life at home other than the really mundane stuff of laundry and cooking, is gardening (yes despite the lack of space).

recently i hadn't been cooking except to make soups - red and white carrot soup with pork, and the ABC soup (my family call it the potato soup - want the recipe? you can't go wrong with this soup). So ... nothing to talk about other than I'm starting to plan for my Christmas baking (fruitcakes are supposed to be baked 2 months in advance) ...

Ok let's talk about my plants ... my japanese roses are finally established and are flowering on and off (due to lack of sun still), my buggy plant now is growing beautifully and with lovely pink flowers blooming (1 opened and 6 more opening). My er ... XXX plant is doing well and I've 4 pots of baby plants from the stem cutting. I've bought 2 African Violets and so far they seem ok with the outdoor sun/ weather (despite the plantshop people saying need airconditioning). Only my orchid plant is still .... let's hope for the best ;P I'm trying to get my PHALAENOPSIS to bloom but it's supposed to be in an aircon room for 1 month before it is inclined to bloom ... only good thing is that it needs to be watered once or twice a week so most of the time i just leave it on the floor and can ignore it.

I was kind overly successful with my chilli padi ... now i have 14 seedlings and growing pretty well. Gave one plant away to my mum (the chilli is REALLY HOT) and thinking what else to do with the remaining 13. I also have one papaya seedling growing REAL SLOW ... so i guess it will be ages before I will even get to taste any of its fruits (provided the flowers will be pollinated).

My rose plant is ... INFESTED WITH RED SPIDER MITES!!!! so i've been faithfully spraying bug spray on them every day for the past 3 days and will continue for 4 more days ... I dun wan to take the risk anymore since i found some of them migrating to my water plants!

Talking about my water plants, I finally got around to arranging them. I split one pot (dun ask me the name - nice long leaves with stems and if it flowers, it's hanging down with several "tendrils" of purple flowers) as part of the plant were already growing outside the pot. Put it into a new pot and i didn't have any mud so i use the mud taken from another plant which i threw out (again i don't know the name) . The mud wasn't much so i used whatever remaining mix soil i had and thank goodness it's not floating or dirtying the water. If it flowers then it' be really really nice ... but again ... it needs SUN!

When i have more budget i'll buy more of the water lightning (each will set me back about $35 and above) to place around since the spotlight is long spoilt ...

So there for now!