Greetings Garden lovers,
It's another monthly garden update that I love doing every month. It's April now and it's summertime here in the Philippines but still, a few spots of rain are pouring now and then which is very good for my plants but when it's a sunny day here it is extremely hot also and I think I would gain biceps by next month if it is continuously sunny because we only depend on our deep well and I'm extending the garden very soon so I'll be busy fetching water every day.
will be extending my garden here.
This week I've been very busy fixing my plant shelter, sowing, and assembling recycled containers that I used for my first grow snow cabbage and lettuce and replanting them in each container.
Now here are my garden updates since I'm still waiting for the new space for gardening to finish.
EGGPLANTS
If you're following my garden blogs before you will know about my survivor eggplants and as of today they still give me fruits but not much anymore so I just leave them there for the meantime this moment until I succeed with my new seedlings for replacement.
While waiting for the land to get ready for planting I sowed 105 eggplant seeds yesterday and will be sowing the remaining seeds this coming day.
This variety of eggplant is called a Fortuner F1 and it's treated with pesticides so a big guarantee that it will grow just like my snow cabbage and lettuce.
I just sowed them yesterday so I am just waiting for them until ready for replanting in the soil bed.
Recycled containers for repotting my SNOW CABBAGE and LETTUCE
I fixed a few parts of my plant shelter and added the railing from our old house there and attached the recycled mix containers for my cabbage and lettuce. Using a tire wire I place the container there and put mixed garden soil, hummus and rice hulls as earth.
Most of this container is from my old job which was a pizza parlour, every time we have an empty gallon I brought it home for my plants. Some also are recycled old water and soft drinks bottles.
Here are my newly grown veggies that I tried for the first time. It measures 3 inches now and it has new leaves come out.
Snow Cabbage
Lettuce
SPRING ONION
The same spot where I planted my spring onions before I replant new ones in the area because I know they will thrive well in there.
SPINACH
Remember the messy place I clean and sown the spinach for the replacement with the old one? Now it has already grown and is all prepared to climb up but I put on some bamboo branches for protection from chicken running back and forth temporarily, for sure by the next day I'll be busy making a trellis for this.
RADISH from trash
Do you also remember the radish scraps I planted together with the onion? Now it looks like this (the onion melted and didn't survive), it has very beautiful healthy leaves now. One with dark small and short and the other one is big and long leaves but I think it will take a long to achieve success because as I separated them I notice that one is still hollow inside and doesn't show uproots, very opposite with long and a big one that has many roots already. Anyway, I transplanted each one of them and added more soil so let's see its progress soon.
TOMATOES
This April, most of my old fruit and vegetable plants are producing well just like my water spinach, lemongrass, sweet potato tops, string beans, lemon basil, chillies, and moringa is a quite very good provider but what inspired me more now is my tomatoes. Before I replanted this I told myself that whatever it can provide I open-heartedly accept it since it is a survivor from the typhoon and now for the first time I harvested this organic big and healthy tomato for salsa and there's more left to pick soon. I didn't pick all of them because I want them ripe from their annual vines before picking.
For my garden selfie, my son Lucas is taking my place he doesn't want me to hold our harvest instead I told him I want to take pictures and he give me this face.
For now, I end my garden updates here. Thank you 
Thank you for reading this and God bless everyone!