✿ Growing Japanese Cream-Fleshed Suika Watermelon Update 1

4.14.2015

Since I live in a warm climate, I direct sow the watermelon seeds in my garden.

I planted two cream-fleshed Suika this year in a small garden bed. I will add a trellis later when the plants get bigger.

✿ General Guide for Care of Sweet Potato Slips

Unpack the cuttings right away. They may look wilted and pale from shipping which is normal. Sweet potato plants are tough and strong and most of them will survive if they are set properly and have a good growing climate. Plants will succeed even if they are yellow, slimy, and even become slightly smelly.

To revive them before planting, remove any dead or yellow leaves, trim the rotted end and rinse any slime off of the roots. Stick the roots in water for a day or so. Do not wet the stem or leaves. Change water a few times if needed. Keep at room temperature, out of direct sunlight. 

✿ 2014 JAPANESE SWEET MELON HARVEST

✿ ROOTING SUGAR CANES

I've always been wondering how to grow sugar cane, So I did some research online and found out that you could easily grow store bought sugar cane in the garden. Sugar cane is actually is a type of grass, tropical, perennial.  It takes about 5 months to harvest the canes.

So, here it is.

✿ Corn Plant Flowering!

My corn plant is flowering. What a surprise! I never knew that the corn plant (Dracaena fragrans) actually flowers! It took me almost two days to figure out from where the fragrance was coming out. It smells really pungent with a similar scent of night blooming jasmine. 

✿ STAR FRUIT GERMINATION

Couple days ago I  found those star fruit seeds germinated! I bought some star fruits from local market a while back. I planted two seeds. Nothing happened after I waited about a whole month, then I just gave up and totally forgot about it. Look at them now! Nature is full of miracles.

✿ Rooting Hydrangea

This is what it looks like 3 weeks after I put the cutting stem down!