Edible Garden Update

After several months of watering and weeding (when I feel like it), my bottle gourd vine finally bore fruit, I mean, vegetable.

I planted the seed from kitchen scraps a few months ago. The vine grew so long that it has reached the second floor balcony of our house. This is the first time that I planted something that actually bore fruit. Everything else were not fruit bearing like the lettuce I grew in water and this kangkong I grew on soil.

Kangkong plant I planted months ago. I already "harvested" and put them in several dishes I cooked.

Now, I realized that I have a green thumb after all. If I'll be blessed with a bigger garden, I'll grow more vegetables and fruit bearing trees from kitchen scraps. My garden will be so amazing with all the greens and colors of these edible plants. 

I hope that other people will be inspired too to use their kitchen scraps and plant them. Even a small soiled space will do. These will be good for our environment and for our pockets too. 

Starting My Edible Garden

I have always dreamed of having  my own self-sufficient farm where I can generate my own energy and grow my own food, but I do not have the land, the turbines and solar panels, and farming skills yet. This dream will have to start with just a small veggie garden on a tiny pot in our house. (Well, I need to start somewhere.)

Fortunately, my husband's aunt brought home some Chinese Kangkong seeds a few weeks ago. I think she got the seeds from her boss who has his own vegetable garden. The seeds look like these after I removed them from the dried kangkong buds.

I directly planted some of the seeds in moist soil and some I placed in water to help the seeds germinate faster.

Day 1

Day 1

There's very little change on the second day, but on the third day, you can see that the seeds that I placed in water have bigger sprouts than the ones I put on the soil. I guess, Chinese Kangkong really loves water.

Day 2

Day 3

Day 3

Day 4

Day 4 (I already planted here the seeds that sprouted in the water)

Day 6

On the sixth day, the Kangkong plant is already showing some leaves which I'll probably re-plant on a bigger pot.Then, hopefully we can harvest soon. Yay! (I love Kangkong!) 

I can see that there's a great possibility that I can really make this edible garden work.  This gives me hope that I can grow other plants like peppers, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables that I can serve on our table. And probably with luck and hard work, my self sufficient farm will come true soon. (Fingers crossed)

Update:

Day 10