Johny's Veggie Patch : May-2019

Its almost a year and a half, since I have made some updates about my Veggie Patches.. Lots of things happened in the last year.. I moved to a new house, I moved to a new job, etc... etc..

My new house has got a bigger backyard compared to my old house.. So more room for my Veggie/Fruit garden :)

Dwarf Mulberry

Dwarf Beans

Pomegranate

Hass Avocado.

Tomato

Sugarcane and Drumstick

Arabian Jasmine :)

Mandrin

Chilly and Turmeric

My Fish pond :)

Beetroot

Mango (Kensington Pride and R2E2 on the same plant)

West Indian Lime

Egg Plant

Ginger

Jack Fruit.. I didn't want to plant this on the ground as I was not sure whether the root might cause damages to my neighbour.. So planted in pot with 1.5m length

Indian Guava

Bamboo plant

Chilly

Curry Leaves

Capsicum

These days, I am not getting enough time to work in my garden. Planning to do some grafting and all this year.. Will see how it goes, will update here if I get some luck with that :)

Will update the situation in next few months.

Johny's Veggie Patch : October-2017

Some updated photos of my Veggie Patch.

The below is the current status of the Tomotoes & Capsicum & Beans.

This time I am trying to plant multiple creepers together. So the below photo has Pumpkin, Watermelon & Cucumber.

Beetroot is growing good.

Snake Beans & Lady's Finger started sprouting.

This time I thought of planting some flowering plants also, so got some Lobella.

Johny's Veggie Patch : September-2017

Its quite some time I have made a post in this blog. So just thought of updating the current things going on in my Veggie Patch. 

Now its the right time to start planting some veggies. Things which is ready as of today.

• Beetroot

• Dwarf Beans

• Cucumber

• Watermelon

• Chinese potato (koorkka).

Current state of all these as below :

Small section in my front yard

Beetroot

Cucumber & Watermelon

(First Attempt)

Dwarf Beans

Koorka (Chinese Potato) 2015

This post is mainly about Koorka/Chinese Potato, which I planted in September 2014 and harvested in July 2015.

Plectranthus rotundifolius or Solenostemon rotundifolius, called Chinese potato in Indian English and often referred to as native potato or country potato in Africa, is a perennial herbaceous plant, of the mint family (Lamiaceae), native to tropical Africa, cultivated in parts of West Africa, South Africa, Madagascar, South Asia and Southeast Asia for its edible tubers. Wild varieties are found in the grasslands of East Africa. Read more...

Dishes made of Koorka can be seen here

Planted this in September 2014. Initial harvesting done in the first week of July.

04-Nov-2014                                                                      04-Dec-2014

This is the state once I am back from India after the holidays.

25-Jan-2015                                                                      14-Mar-2015                         

21-Apr-2015                                                                       03-May-2015

It looks like the time to harvest. Lets see whether we get something from this or not.

Harvesting on 07-July-2015

1st harvest was not bad. Now its the second time. This time will post the photo of the dish also.

12-Jul-2015                                                                       17-Jul-2015

Still some more to go. Will do that in few weeks time.

Beetroot and Carrot : 14-Jun-2015

Winter has started in Perth and I wanted to plant something in the garden 'NOW' :)

Looked at internet and as per the below links, it says you can plant Beetroot at any time and Carrot in any month except Jun,July,August.
Growing Carrot in Australia
Growing Beetroot in Australia

But I don't want to wait, so I decided to plant both. Went to Bunnings and bought Beetroot and Carrot seedlings.

 Beetroot Seedlings

Carrot Seedlings

I have a small veggie garden in my front yard. Beetroots and Carrot grow better in a Sandy soil than Hard Soil. What I have done is , just dug almost 10-15cm and then mixed the sand with some Cow Manure  (which I bought last year this time) and then raised the sand almost 5cm from the ground. Then I planted the seedlings on top of that. 

Will update the blog with the latest photos every month till harvesting :).

Not much growth yet, so no point in  posting the photos. Will post the photos after a month.