Yard long bean (Vigna sesquipedalis)

The plant type of Yard long bean is climber. Have you ever seen Yard long bean come from shrub?? Take a look at the image below.

Yard long bean

The plant is hybrid or genetic modified to become shrub. This will ease the harvesting process. But from my point of view, the plant will produce low yield quantity compared to the climber plant.

Extraordinary corn disease

For your information, corn is monoecious plant. Means they have two seperate male and female flower in one single plant. Take a look at the image below.

(Corn gall) (male flower)
This is male flower of corn. They grew at the top of the plant and supposed to produce pollen which would dropped into the female flower (pollination) then corn is produced. But this male flower produced corn grain!! It was weird.. wasn't it?

(Normal corn male flower)


(Normal corn female flower)

I cannot explain scientifically why the grains grew on the male flower. I did some research it might caused by an insect named gall midge. I did not know this for sure, the insect injected some chemical substance into the plant part (in this case the male flower) then the galls were formed. But, if it was really the gall midge there must be a larvae in each galls. When I pinched the galls with my finger there was nothing in there. It was fully developed corn grain. Just like in the female flower (where it supposed to be).


Gall midge


Symptom caused by gall midge

Self-grown or bought vegetable, which do you prefer?

Nowadays, land use or reserved for agriculture purposes are almost gone due to the building construction, road, and so on. Because of that people tend to buy vegetables from the market. Don't you know, most of the vegetable sold at the market quite hazardous. If you looked at the physical appearances, it definately looked fine. Didn't you ever try to smell the vegetable? You might be able to smell the pesticide used on the vegetable. If the vegetable smell fresh, you're free to buy it. Some people thought the physical-perfect vegetable is good. Don't be tricked! Better buy vegetable that got holes on it. At least you know the vegetable is pesticide-free or low pesticide used on it. What are the effect if you consume the hazardous vegetable? You may not see the effect soon or later. But after around 10 years, it will starts affecting you. Maybe you'll get heart failure, kidney problem, and other failure of internal organ. To avoid all these things, lets grow our own vegetable. You still can do it even you live in apartment or something like that. No need large space to plant. I show you the simplest method to grow vegetable.

This are the seeds of Poh Choy (Brassica chinensis)


Then sow the seed in a seed tray if u got one. If not you can sow it in small pot. That weren't the Poh Choy seeds. I didn't take pictures the day i sown them. Sorry~ But the concept is same.


Wrap the seed tray with transparent plastic to keep the moisture. So you don't have to irrigate the seeds until its germinate.


Carefully pull the seedlings off from the seed tray then transplant the seedlings into small pots. I used the small pot so that the nutrient given, absorbed by one plant therefore it will grow vigourously. I supplied the plant with organic fertilizer (chicken dung). Don't put the fertilizer on the medium surface but dipped into the medium. Remember, plant root is geotropisme +ve. They cannot grow upward unless to search water or moist and don't put too much fertilizer.


After two weeks later. Don't forget to apply the chicken dung once every two weeks. As the plant grow you must increase the fertilizer amount a bit.


The vegetables ready to be harvested after 4 weeks. Fresh, Pesticide-free, and vigorous!

Spring

Holding Sakura tree. If you notice, plenty of pinkish white spot on the canopy. It's the flower bud of Sakura and soon all the flowers blossom then you'll see how beauty the tree is.

Scenery of spring season in four season temperate house. You now can compare the previous images at the same spot. See the difference? As you can see from these images, the leaves of existed plant still not grow yet. Its started to grow a week later.

Pre - Spring

These are the other temperate plant beside tulip

Single tulip

Muscari

Hyacinth
Muscari and hyacinth are fragrant flower. The fragrant odor could cover the whole parts of four season house even from one single plant!