17 Apr
It’s the best time to garden in Brissy, but I’ve been a bit slack lately …
Anyways, I visited my mum on the weekend, first time during the day for a while, so I finally get to check what’s going on in her garden ~
I was really impressed with all the rosellas in fruit, and that took all my attention away!!! I’m just thinking rosella jam repeatedly!!
6 Mar
One of the community Gardens lost their Passionflower plant in the Brisbane flood last year. Now, I’ve never heard of this before that, and although passionfruit vines are commonly found around here, passionflower is supposedly rare. One of the ladies on BLF (online forum) found this plant is available from an online nursery and were looking at buying it back for the community garden, and others to share the postage, so I bought one too ~
It lived in the tiny pot it came in the post for a few months before I repot it to a slightly larger pot. By then it was already struggling having been kept in a pot it apparently outgrew. It died down after it was moved to the larger pot for a while, and it sent out new growth later. I then planted it into a polyethylene box which I have previously tried to grow potatoes. It is growing well now, although potatoes started growing again soon after I planted the Passionflower, but the potatoes have since died again, and the Passionflower is still growing strong. It’s even started to flower!
Passiflora Incarnata flower
The flower colours are slightly different to the passionfruit flowers, but I can’t see much difference between them….. I wonder how big the fruits are, and whether they’re editable. I imagine that they’re smaller, since the vines’s smaller, and the flowers slightly smaller than the ordinary passionfruits ~ But I’ll wait and see 
Passionfruit flower
23 Feb
Hairy gourd, also called Hairy melon… I believe it is a variety of Winter melon ~
This is the first time I’ve successfully grown it… this is the first one on the vine…. I harvested it when it was a little over 1.3 kg ~
Hairy Melon won't fit into my mixing bowl....
Weighing in at 1.3 kg
Stuffed with pork mince, seasoned with dried mushroom, scallops, and shrimp… Yum~~~~
Yum ~~~
Recipe can be found here ~
8 Feb
Many plants can be propagated from cuttings and often much easier than from seeds ~
I’m not very good at it though, because I tend not to be able to keep them moist consistently, and consequently, they dry out before they shoot out any roots. However, I’ve still had success with propagating Mulberry, Rosemary, mint, basil, Cassava, mother-of-herbs (Plectranthus aromaticus syn. Coleus aromaticus), and sugarcane by cuttings. They must have been really easy to root ~ all I did was cut either the tip of growth or section of a twig/branch, remove the leaves down the bottom 1/2 to 2/3, and stick them in the soil.
I’ve received cuttings from other people that are less common, or that I would never would have have thought of propagating from cuttings though. Eggplants, Tamarillo, Pepino, even a mango just to mention a few …
Cutting grown Tomarillo
Cutting grown Mango
The eggplant grown from cutting have just produced its first fruit now
Cutting grown Eggplant
13 Jan
Harvested all the sweet corn and took them to my family’s New Year BBQ ^^
My mum made soup with them ~ These are Golden bantam, the plants are small in comparison to what I grew, and the cobs are not quite full size either, but I’m just happy I got a harvest ~~~
Ready for harvest!
After harvest~
Crop ~
