ULOG 142 - Gardening at night

Around summer time, I like doing gardening at night. Firstly, I'm a night owl, I prefer doing stuffs at night and often feel sleepy during the day. Secondly, gardening at night is much cooler and the quietness allows you to focus better.

Today, I started moving my indoor rice paddy herbs outdoor into a styrofoam box. I've submerged the potting mix as this herb likes it wet. This is the first time I'm planting the rice paddy herb this way and I'm a bit worried about the water going anaerobic so I made some a hole on the bottom side of box so I can drain the water from time to time to suck oxygen in and then fill up with fresh water. We added new cutting from the herb we just bought from the asian groceries.

The whole thing is then covered with an upside down plastic container in which I've cut a hole covered with a mosquito net. This will allow the system to breath but prevent mosquitoes from coming in to oviposit.

I then went to plant the black turmeric. I went and chose a small one for the small pot.

I did the same for the regular turmeric last weekend and they all have germinated and leaves are appearing.

Someone gave us a curry tree because they didn't like the smell of it and it is true that the smell is very special and you don't even need to brush against it to release the scent. The tree was in bad shape when we've been given it, it was unrooted for couple of days and it was hot, so we immediately left it in a bucket of water and changed the water every other day. It seems to have recovered and tonight I got it a nice root pouch.

New leaves have appeared at on the branches and their tips where you can also see the previous dead leaves.

The Moringa tree is now fully recovered from the winter cold. I will soon move it into a much larger 120L root pouch to give it as much nutrient as possible and provide it with a larger water reserve.

The garden is still a mess and the problem with summer is you get other time wasters: weed and mowing the lawn. I also need to trim the bush or orange jasmine which you can see on the top left background of the Moringa photo. I might wait until it starts flowering first but it's starting to spread too much into the garden so I want to keep it tidy.

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Previously on my Ulog:

• ULOG 141 - Unplanned expenses from leak inside the walls.
• ULOG 140 - Headache all day...
• vULOG 139 - Making milk kefir at home
• ULOG 134 - A day with Nature

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