Then came freaky weather with extended periods of heavy rains and cloudiness. Some succumbed to moulds. Most refused to grow. One was blown down by a gust of wind.
And bouts of aphids-attacks which overtook the flowering soybeans & butterbeans plants.
... ...
March parted the clouds, and sunshine poured from the sky more often than rain. Re-sowed seeds and new vegetable seedlings basked under the sun and grew into happy little seedlings.
Rummi 'stole' orange rinds from the kitchen, blended then with a couple of chilli-padis, steeped the mixture in hot water overnight... and wash out the pots. Aphids scrambled and died. The battle is won, the organic way! All the pots are happy now. Now they continue to receive regular Spicy-spray-down.
5 comments:
Hi Hi,
Why do you have to do the orange and chili padi blend? what's the purpose of it?
erm, let me self intro. I know your blog thru' a forum and find it so interesting.
I love gardening, but do not have a green hands, ie, i know very little about gardening to sustain my green hobby.
am now reading thru' all your posts and hopefully can find some helps. :)
cheers,
Delci
hi delci, thanks for checking me up ;)
the orange-rink-chillipadi blend is an organic 'pesticide' formulae. so far it'd worked on getting rid of a few types of common pests; and dun smell as bad as garlic-spray, hehe.
maybe i love gardening... hmm, im not sure, really. it has not intrigued me so far to grow beautiful flowers, specialists orchids or such... i just wan to grow some plants tat i can cook and eat.
as a beginner (now tat it'd been some 6mths already), i find great consolations in convincing myself that green fingers may be spcial gifts unique to some, BUT gardening is a skill, thus it can be learned !! ;)
Thanks Jean for your pointers.
When you mentioned pest, what kind of pest are you referring to?
And how often to you have to do apply it?
hi delci,
...was referring to aphids, and probably other pest tat were caught in the pots when i spray.
mealy bugs are common too, and i heard, very persistent. but id yet to encounter one, so cant tell if this spray can work on them.
i watered in the concoction once (that was 3mths ago). then spray-only when im feeling lazy from work and will like to do gardening (=once or twice a month; or none the whole month).
so whats u growing right now? care to share?
hi jean,
thanks again for reply.
I know so little about plants that I don't know most of their names! :P... Probably the one I know is 'money plant' ... the shops usually says its chinese names, which I will forget soon.
will take pic instead, and you will probably know the name better...
btw, my email is delci215@yahoo.com
may be easier to communicate via emails. :)
cheers,
delci aka ezmum
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