Monday 27 January 2014

A Few New Additions



A Few New Additions

Sunset View Bar, Looking out onto Sairee Bay and Koh Nang Yuan

So some new additions have come about with the New Year, will just have to see how they turn out. Managed to get some dates, a dragon fruit seedling and I was amazed in this climate that an apple seedling would grow, will just have to see how well it will actually do!

Date Plant!
Start of a Dragon Fruit Seedling

Start of Apple Seedling


Tomatoes

Ginger Plant



Aubergines/Eggplants

Capsicums



Saturday 11 January 2014

Start of the New Year



Start of the New Year


Fallen trees on the road up to the abandoned resort at Laem Thian Bay

So during the break for Christmas I managed to venture on a few hikes and see some parts of Koh Tao inaccessible by transport, largely lovely and peaceful, but some tricky parts where the road has largely washed away.  Wish I could I have snapped some picture of all the butterflies, but they always seemed to be out focus. Here along the path there were fallen trees, and a small archway to get through.

So below are how the plants are getting along, as you can see they all seem to doing well at the moment.

Ginger Plant
Capsicum Plants and Aubergines behind

Sweet Chili
Aubergine/Eggplants growing well
Lemon Tree Seedlings

Thursday 2 January 2014

Back from Bali

 Back from Bali...

Dragonfly in Bali

Eggplant/Aubergine Seedlings
Could not believe the size that the aubergine plants had grown to in 2 weeks away, guessing that keeping them in such a small pot for so long was not doing them any good, but also guessing that the addition of some compost helped! 












Sweet Chilies

Ginger Plants
 These plants were also doing really well, was nervous that 2 weeks away would mean that they would all be dead, but at least the sweet chilies did ok.











The Ginger is going from strength to strength and the re potting with compost seems to have really helped.
Mango and Ginger

Tomatoes and Sweet Chilies











Unfortunately the one casualty from my trip away was the mango :(  I did dig it up and found that the pod was overrun with tiny white mites, not sure where they came from or the best course of action, but due to the crazy amount of mangoes here, I will try again, at least the ginger plant seems to be doing well.






Tomatoes and Sweet chilies still all doing well, just wondering how long it will take before they start producing flowers and then fruit!