This is how the completed garden looks like. It has yet to be tested in heavy rain, but I'm assuming/hoping really hard that it will hold up after all my hard work in setting up the French drain.
From the left, you can barely make out the 'Sarawak Snake Grass' and garlic. Moving right, you can see a blanket of bayam (eng. amaranthus) behind the rosemary bush. By the planks are my corn and dill, with a pineapple plant somewhere at the faaar end. On the French drain is the pegaga, followed by cucumbers, basil, lemon balm and parsley on the right. Parsley's not doing too well though.
Here's a close up of the 'prettyfied' French drain. I bought another bag of sand today, thinking that it could fill the hole, but well, as you can see...
Nevertheless, it looks like it could work, and I sure hope it does.
As with all gardens, pests are not something alien. Already my cucumbers are preyed upon by beetles, and my corn ravaged by this pesky green thing.
To encourage a ecosystem which aims to keep the pest population down, I've placed several up turned pots around the garden to provide shelter for beneficial critters like spiders and ants. Also, it acts as a pretty effective snail trap - they hide in there during the day, so all I have to do is lift the pot, grab them by their shells and encourage their migration over the wall into the neighbour's garden.
Plants to come are:
- watermelon
- pumpkin
- angle beans
- okra
- lettuce
- peanuts
- shallots
- spinach
- bitter gourd
If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to leave them in the comments below!
2 comments:
cool... How did u plant parsley? also.. how did u plant garlic?
grubs on altar for birds.. hehe^^
could plant chillies? or aloe vera.
Parsley, I got the RM5.99 ones at Mercato. I think other supermarkets like Cold Storage or Jusco should have them too. Thing is, they aren't the best looking plants in the world.
Garlic... well, I just stuck cloves into the ground. How else did you think garlic is propagated?
Thanks for your comments and support!
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