My mini carrots harvest

I have been so busy and lazy in the past 3 months, that I didn't get around to posting anything on here!

Busy, being a parent helper at my kid's school, and attending weekly free art classes at a local community centre, as well as working on a series of artworks for the end of year group exhibition!

Lazy... to type up new blog entry. :P

Anyway, I have decided yesterday to dig up the mini carrots that I have planted almost 5 months ago from seedlings! I would have left them in the soil for a bit longer if it's not because they, or the self-watering container they were in, were attracting too many ngats!! A few of the carrot leaf stalks seemed to be drying out as well!

I managed to harvest 8 decent sized mini carrots out of the 10+ seedlings I planted. Though, all of them weren't as long as the shop bought ones, but they were just as wide, around a little finger size. I guess it was due to a mistake I made early on by not watering from the top, and was relying on the self-watering container to do its job; watering from the bottom. :( Not too sure if they would grow to be longer if left in the soil for a longer period.

Propagating Jade Plant Leaf Cuttings

Over the past month or so, I have read on various websites, forums and blogs how easy it is (though a little slow) to propagate Jade Plant cuttings. So, since my parents have a few Jade Plants over at their place, I have decided to try propagating a few leaf cuttings myself!

After taking several leaf cuttings fallen from my parents' plants, I let them sit inside a plastic cup without any water or soil for around a week, before I did anything with them. It was mainly due to my laziness, which turned out to be a good thing! As many had said that the cuttings should be left out of direct sunlight, without much watering, to let the cut ends dry out for around a week to seal the cut and prevent it from rotting. I later let them sit on the surface of some damp soil and left them there without any further watering!

Started with around 13 Jade Plant leaf cuttings

I checked the leaf cuttings every week or so to see if roots have developed. And today, after around one month since I left them on the soil, 7 out of the 13 or so leaf cuttings have developed roots! Yeah! :D I would have to plant them into some cacti & succulent potting mix very soon!

After around one month, 7 leaf cuttings developed roots!

Over the past month or so, I had to throw away a few leaf cuttings that rotted or was showing signs of rot. I now have only 3 leaf cuttings that haven't shown signs of anything yet. Hopefully, they will develop roots soon too!

My half dead Anthurium plants

Since my last update on my Anthurium plants, they haven't really recovered from the Thrips attack. :(

Out of the three plants I have, the biggest one still have adult thrips on its leaves, even though we are now approaching mid-winter!

Hoping this largest one can survive through winter! :(

The good news is that, surprisingly, the other 2 smaller plants are bringing out new leaf shoots...... but in winter?!

This one brought out new shoots before but the thrips got to them before they uncurl!
Hoping this time it would be healthier.

 

This smallest one has a new leaf uncurling as well as another leaf shoot next to it!

Last winter, my Anthuriums were sleeping in the newly bought mini greenhouse, but this winter, the mini greenhouse has been taken over by my new veggie patch. May be it's time for me to get another mini greenhouse, and this time a 3 tier one instead!