Realized that there are not enough sunlight at the corridor, decided to shift the Bamboo Rack to the lift side. The morning sunlight will shine from the east directly on the Bamboo Rack, as the Passion Fruit had been temporary remove from the project due to unable to find good seed the support rack is reconfigure for Cherry Tomato and Cucumber.
2nd Mar 2020 Change of Location and Configuration
Sunlight in the Morning
Onion had finally sprout after 11 day, it is one day late from the expected 10 days limit which I found out from the internet. Sixth Aunt had suggest to cut one third of the top and bottom for better grow, but my wife had already cut the four side and would not bear to disturb it further after it had sprout.
5th Mar 2020 Onion Sprout after 11 days
As my Wife is crazy about planting Zucchini and we had brought some Vegetables Seeds from Green Leif, I decided to get Large Tray and Soil from Green Spade. The Hanging Rack lack support and I had to modify it with Angle Bar, the soil from Green Spade is much better than the soil we get from Horti at the supermarket as it had Mini Lecca inside in additional to the Coco Fibre.
I also order Alfalfa Seed from Everything Green as my wife want to try some other Micro Green other than Wheat Grass. The Alfalfa Sprout in just one day and grow much faster than Wheat Grass. As my Wife had overestimate the amount of seed for the small tray, we decided to shift it to the big tray to ensure there is enough space for it to grow.
6th Mar 2020 Large Tray Setup
7th Mar 2020 Tray for Alfalfa
7th Mar 2020 Alfalfa had Sprout after 1 day
Capsicum Flower start to bloom after 64 days, it had grow much faster than the Pearl Tomato which is beyond our expectation. Pearl Tomato had more sprout at the beginning but only one plant actually survive, the Capsicum had less sprout but about eight plants survive with three growing well than the remaining five.
Rocket and Choy Sum start to sprout after 2 days, my Wife wanted to let it sprout more for another 2 more days before she transfer it to the Large Tray. She had again overestimate the amount of it for our consumption, it had occupied the Large Tray for the Zucchini and Carrot. The Zucchini had to be postpone to later date and the Carrot had been consider a failure after 21 days without sprout.
Vegetable
Sprout 5-7 Days Harvest 30-80 Days
Partial Sun Dry Soil 6.0-7.5 PH
8th Mar 2020 Capsicum Flower Bloom after 64 days
8th Mar 2020 Rocket and Choi Sum Sprout after 2 days
10th Mar 2020 Transfer of Vegetables to Large Tray
Alfalfa had been growing fast, my Wife had start eating it after 4 days as tidbit and we ate it with Sixth Aunt after it had fully grown on the 6th days. It had grow faster than expected and we could only finish half and kept the remaining in the fridge for future consumption. We ate it with Passion Fruit and some Passion Fruit had been kept for using the seed for future planting.
Sixth Aunt recently had start growing Pea Sprout and we give her a Tray and some Alfalfa Seed with PH Meter as an appreciation of all her help in our little farm. She also brought some of her Pea Sprout for us to try, she also brought some Chive Seed, Okra Seed for us to plant in the future if we ever find more space for the mini farm.
10th Mar 2020 Alfalfa grow well
I had order Cucamelon and Jalapeno Seed from The Wrigley Farm, we also plant the Cucumber and French Bean Seed which we had brought from Green Leif after confirming that the Cucumber Seed we get from the Cucumber we brought from the supermarket doesn't seem to sprout after 10 days limit.
Cucamelon and French Bean start to sprout after 4 days, Cucumber start to sprout after 5 days. Sweet Potato had been growing very well in the Long Pot, there are two plant which grow tall enough for cutting off the top part to become two smaller plant. But after asking if any of the relative are interested we decided to keep it as it is since nobody actually want.
Bean
Sprout 7-10 Days Harvest 45-90 Days
Partial Sun Dry Soil 5.5-7.0 PH
5-10-10 NPK
14th Mar 2020 Cucamelon Sprout after 4 days
14th Mar 2020 French Bean Sprout after 4 days
15th Mar 2020 Cucumber Sprout after 5 days
17th Mar 2020 Sweet Potato grow well
Jalapeno sprout a bit later after 8 days, and Eggplant also sprout after 10 days. What came as a surprise is that the Strawberry finally start to sprout after 22 days, it was a day late from the limit like the Onion. We are looking forward to it as we almost give up hope and plan to buy the seed from the supermarket in case the seed we got from the fruit is not successful.
Eggplant
Sprout 7-14 Days Harvest 60-90 Days
Full Sun Moist Soil 5.0-7.0 PH
10-10-10 NPK
18th Mar Jalapeno Sprout after 8 days
20th Mar 2020 Strawberry Sprout after 22 days
20th Mar 2020 Eggplant Spout after 10 days
Did some modification of the Support Rack to prepare for Passion Fruit, Watermelon and Kiwano. Still unable to find Kiwano in Singapore yet, might had to wait until July for the season. Also did some modification of the Support for the Cucumber, Cucamelon, French Bean and Cherry Tomato. It is able to provide more support and had a better look after the new modification.
The Capsicum had start to bear Fruit after 81 days, is it faster than what we expected as the packaging indicate about 98 days. The Pearl Tomato is behind schedule as it had not bloom flower or bear fruit until now, the packaging indicate harvest in about 63 to 77 days. The Cherry Tomato doesn't seem to grow well, out of the three pots only one pot manage to survive until now.
Wife finally decided to grind all the egg shell, banana peel, orange peel, coffee ground and tea leaf into powder after drying it in the sun for almost a month. It is mix with soil and let it compost for about three month to become fertilizer. The coffee ground is producing a lot of heat and it will burn the root of the plant if use directly without composting.
Wife also decide to change the soil for the Peanut as it had become dry and hard after two months. The old soil from the Peanut will be use for Vermicompost for the Earthworm, the soil in the Earthworm container now had already become well fertilize with their waste after about two months. The amount of soil collected from the Peanut Long Pot will be enough for about five to six change which will be over a period of about a year.
Wife wanted to plant Lime, she also wanted to increase the French Bean and Eggplant by trying to sprout some more seeds. We decided to start planting Okra, Passion Fruit and Watermelon, I brought the Pearl Tomato, Strawberry and Bitter Gourd Seed for backup in case the existing plant fail and also for future planning.
22nd Mar 2020 New Configuration of Support Rack
22nd Mar 2020 New Configuration of Support Rack
24th Mar 2020 Capsicum had bear Fruit
Manage to find 4 wooden plank in the store room, since there are some angle bar left I might as well setup another additional rack. It can be use to put more pot, store gardening stuff or even use as a bench.
26th Mar 2020 Final Expansion
My wife is trying to create Compost Fertilizer by burying fruit scrap in soil, I suggest she add some Yeast to cultivate some Bacteria to speed up the progress. We never expect Mushroom to grow from the soil, we might have discover a new way to grow Mushroom. We are not sure if these Mushrooms are edible, so we just wait for it to grow further before we decide what to do with it.
The mushroom grow fast, the night before it just sprout it had already bloom the next day morning. The Watermelon and Okra had also Sprout after 4 days, as I did not did any research on the grow period I think it is still consider fast at that rate. The only thing left is to wait for the Lime to Sprout, hopefully we will be able to see that before the end of the month.
28th Mar 2020 Never Expect Mushroom to grow
29th Mar 2020 Mushroom Bloom the next day morning
29th Mar 2020 Watermelon Sprout after 4 days
29th Mar 2020 Okra Sprout after 4 days
Pearl
Tomato Flower start to bloom at the last day of the month, it is like
it know that I am going to feature it in my blog and it doesn't want to
wait for another month. It took 88 days for the flower to bloom, really
way behind the schedule that we had expected. We are not sure when will
the Fruit start to bear but we are really looking forward to it.
Capsicum
Fruit had also grow bigger, there is some darker colour patch seen on
part of it. We are not sure if it is a sign of maturity or a
sign of damage, we just had to wait and see how it develop and grow
further. Mushroom doesn't survive long, it usually sprout in the night
and bloom in the morning and then dried up and die the next day evening.
This
had taught us about how life is short and how we should treasure it
while we still can. The whole farming journey had taught us a lot of
things, patient to wait for the plant to grow and develop, willing to
forego of the weaker plant so that the stronger one can grow better.
There
are many more lessons to be learn in this journey and we are looking
forward to it with a positive mind. There will always be surprises and
disappointment every day as we proceed but we should not let it hold us
back and give up on life so easily.
31st Mar 2020 Pearl Tomato Flower Bloom after 88 days
31st Mar 2020 Capsicum Fruit Grow
