Before I Go Travelling

So just as some of the fruit I have been growing is starting to ripen and get ready for eating, I am off on travels for 3 weeks. My Boyfriend has been left in charge of watering duties - and eating the produce, will be interesting to see what state the plants are in when I get back.....

Tomato Ripening

Tomato Plant

First signs of an Aubergine!

Date Palms emerging

Papaya Seedling

Dragon Fruit Seedling

Chilli Plants

Aubergines

Tomatoes and Chilli Plants

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

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

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

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!

After the House Move

After the House Move

Koh Tao Snake who tried to gate crash our Barbecue

Just another Quick up date on how the plants were doing once we moved house.

Sweet Chili and Capsicum

Capsicum and Garlic

Pretty Flowers

The capsicums are doing well, and growing up and outwards.













These were from Seed bought from Aukotan, but since we lost the packet, I have no idea what they are, but thought it was nice to post something in bloom!

Tomato Plants

So the tomatoes are doing well, and the sweet chilis in the bamboo have exploded into action!

Re-potting Madness

Re-potting Madness

Ok, so a little behind in the updates, but a few more postings to follow shortly...

Here are so pictures of me re-potting before we moved house.

Lizard Sunbathing in Koh Tao

Garlic, Capsicum and Sweet Chili

Tomatoes and Sweet Chili

Mango Seedling

Adding together the Garlic, some capsicums and sweet chili plants, lets see how they all grow together.












So I separated out the tomato plants to help them grow a little bit better, and added some more sweet chili seeds to the bamboo container.










And here is another shot of the mango seedling.

Seedlings and Sproutings....

Seedlings and Sproutings

Flowers in Koh Tao

Here are some beautiful flowers from just outside our apartment, though I have no idea what they are, look like something similar to a hibiscus, so if you know, please feel free to let me know!

Tomato seedlings at 5 weeks

These are the tomato seedlings from the previous post, they have been growing exceptionally quickly, so much so that I had to re pot them.

Aubergine/Eggplant Seedlings at 4 weeks

The Aubergine/Eggplants depending on your preference, took ages to actually come through, these were some of the bought seeds, and seemed to perform worse than most that we took directly from the veg. The only exceptions are the sunflowers, which seem to do well everywhere!

Ginger starting to Sprout

   

  

The Ginger has been an ongoing conundrum, always tricking me into thinking it is dying then springing back into life, I have no idea what is the correct way to treat ginger, but suspect it is growing due to the tropical climate, and despite my interactions with it, rather than because of it!

Sunflowers at 5 weeks

The Sunflowers at around 5 weeks, not much else to say, except these seem to have done really well, just need lots of water.