Mantis Shedding it's skin

Chilli Growing nicely

Avocado Plant

Tomato plant in the back, Ginger in the front

Tomatoes growing nicely

Tomato Flower

Ginger Plant

Roots of the Ginger Plant

Sesame Plant

Mango Seedling

Dragonfruit seedlings

Some things Growing, some things Dying

So the aphids started on the aubergine/eggplants and have now moved onto the chilli peppers and capsicums. Luckily the tomatoes are being quite hardy, and the aubergine eggplants are starting to fight back!

First Tomato Growing

First Chilli Pepper Growing

The Ravages of Aphids on the Aubergines/Eggplants

Finally starting to hit back...

Sesame Flower from leftover sesame seeds

Some Pretty Flowers...

Some Pretty Flowers

Chilli Flower

 Ok, so here are some pictures of the flowers that started to show through and got excited that finally I would be getting some produce from my plants, unfortunately aphids were about to attack, and only the tomatoes managed to battle through with little damage....

Tomato Flowers

Aubergine/Eggplant Flower

Tomato Flowers

Aubergine/Eggplant Flowers

Chilli Flower

Dragon Fruit Seedling

Before the Aphids Attack!

Before the Aphids Attack!

Sunset view from Banana Rock Bar, Koh Tao

So here are some pictures of my plants before aphids attacked and left them in a slightly sorry state...

Start of a flower bud - chilli plant

Aubergine/Eggplant Flowers

Papaya Seedlings

Avocado Sprout

Sneaky Avocado Sprout from the compost pile

More New Stuff

More New Stuff

Praying Mantis protecting my Chilli Plant

Apple tree seedling

Tomato plant towering over the rest

First signs of a Flower bud

The long tall shoot is a date plant!

Lemon Tree seedling, slowing getting taller

Leftover sesame seeds starting to sprout

Ginger Plant

Dragon Fruit Seedlings

Chili plant with first signs of flower buds

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

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!