Sowing Frenzy!!

I'm so greedy! I bought sooo much seeds at Ji Mei Flower Shop down at Thompson and Giants and a few other stuff like soil, fertilizers and tools. How can you possibly resist the diversity of colors and ideas that you can do with these flowers!

So I added Livingstone Daisies, Portulaca, Dahlias, Zinnia Lilliput, Gold Medallion, Lavender, Pink Sun Flower and Cactus Mixed into my collection. All of them planted except for the cactus since it requires "their" own type of soil.

This time I placed them in peat pots that I purchased at Ji Mei at 9.90$ for 36 tiny pots. And because I'm new into gardening, I've never done transplanting to any plant. I was so afraid to damage the roots so I got the peat pots to facilitate the work. After doing some research through the Internet, peat pots are pots that comes in various shapes and sizes that are made with sphagnum moss peat and wood pulp fibers that are excellent for water absorption to help keep your soil and seeds moist. What I like about it, is the fact that you can just place the whole peat pot into the established pot that your plant will spend the rest of his life in. The roots of your new plant can still penetrate the walls of the peat pot! So It's a pretty good way for beginners to start sowing their seeds and not needing to worry about root damaging during the process of transplanting. Cool, huh? 

I bought a set of 3 mini gardening tools at Giants for 3.95$ and great tools for plant thinning just in case you're not using peat pots. But I bought mine just because it's cute...

After sowing them in their own little pot, I gently sprayed water and applied a bit of flowering fertilizer from Zagro and then leave them on my kitchen windowsill. 

My husband planted this beautiful Cherry Tomato plant from seed a few weeks ago, and look how much it grown! But I'm facing a bit of a headache now... It's infected with mealybugs! These bugs were responsible for the damage they caused to my chili plant that ultimately died. And It would be a pity If this beautiful tomato plant will end up in the garbage bin. So I applied a concentrated pesticide from IJO (It's Just Organic) that It's specially formulated to prevent and repel these annoying bugs by mixing 500ml of water with 1 teaspoon of pesticide and sprayed all over the leaves and roots and, of course, directly on these bugs. Let's see how will it turn out tomorrow!

Here are the photos of the pesticide that I used on my tomatoes and the foliar fertilizer that I used on my seeds. 

IJO costed 7.90$ and the fertilizer, 9.80$ and both purchased at Ji Mei flower shop.

Sowing Carnation and Phlox seeds: First attempt

Today is my first attempt to sow carnation and phlox flowers and I'm really excited to see the first tiny plants come out.

I bought these seeds in Giants hypermarket at Vivocity for 1.69$ each packet from the Horti brand, then lightly sow them in a potting mix soil that I bought at a local florist shop. The carnation seeds will germinate, hopefully, in 10-14 days and the phlox in approx 14 days. I lightly water them using a gentle spray twice a day leaving the soil damp and not entirely wet then I leave them to rest on my windowsill where not much of direct sunlight but has warmth.

I think I'm safe If I follow all of the instructions! Let's finger-cross!

I might pass by Giants again to buy other types of flowers since I have so much empty pots and soil at home.

Rest them on 10cm pots

Here are the seedlings of the cosmos flower I planted last week! Aren't they cute? First attempt to seed them as well and pretty happy that they germinated in just a few days! Hopefully they'll grow into beautiful strong plants in the following days! I placed them outdoors in my corridor after they have germinated to catch up with the beautiful sunshine in the early morning.

                                            

A close up look at the cosmos seedlings

I know little about these beautiful flowers but what I do know is that these flowers are easy to grow and requires minimum care since it can adapt to tropical weathers. 

Can't wait for what the next days will bring!

Hi! Thank you for stopping by!

Hello there! Welcome to my little world where you will discover so much of my passions. But primarily purpose of this blog is to share my new experience with gardening living in a flat. Here, I will post my progresses of my growing seeds, share ideas, tips and hints and show you that it is possible to grow a small part of nature inside your home.
It's a whole new experience to me as I know nothing about gardening. I first started growing my own seeds not long ago but I found it so interesting and got immediately fascinated about the whole process from seed to plant. So from there, I decided to record it on a blog to simply see how this exciting gardening journey will turn up.

I live among people who simply shares a passion for gardening. I think what inspired me the most to start gardening is because of my Dad. He loves growing his own vegetables in his small rented garden back in Portugal where he would spend all weekends there, sowing and tending plants, watering endless rows of vegetables and coming home extremely exhausted. I used to hate it there due to the stinky cow poo he used as fertilizers, but at the end of the day of hard work he would come back home with freshly organic veggies and fruits. And I miss those days. How I wish I could turn back time and learn this skill way back where we had a garden to do so. 

Now my Dad lives in a apartment, on the 19th floor, with a confined balcony like mine but it didn't stop him from growing his own veggies! He now has around 10 pots filled with herbs, chilies and some greens. And I'm about to follow his footsteps! 

Apart from blogging about gardening, I will share other of my passions or anything that can be helpful. Like I said, this is my little world and you are welcome to be apart of my new journey where we all can share ideas!