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Showing posts with label home garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home garden. Show all posts
Saturday, February 28, 2026

How Many Plants Can One Sili Make?

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More than a month ago, we got sili with our delivery. Sweetie used one and I set aside one where I keep free ketchup and hot sauce. Of cours...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

My 2026 Garden Goals

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The prices of vegetables are crazy nowadays. We're lucky we are able to buy affordable lettuce from a neighbor, but other must haves lik...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Gumamela Cuttings from my 4th Grade Teacher

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Just thought I'd make this post to thank my fourth grade Filipino teacher, Mrs. Orenza, for the beautiful gumamela cuttings she sent me ...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Harvested on the First Day of March

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Happy new month everyone! While doing my usual plant watering, Sweetie mentioned we should harvest the ginger.  We watched videos where they...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Trees that Grew by Accident

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We set up several pots in our backyard for composting. It surprisingly worked well. A few months later we were surprised to see something gr...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

Tips from a Landscape Architect

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I came across Slater Young's interview with Architect Efren Aurelio, a landscape architect. It piqued my interest since I've just be...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Learnings from Gardening

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Before I detail my goals for gardening, it's useful to review last year's goals. This will give me an idea what to prioritize this y...
Monday, June 19, 2023

Home on Mondays: Our Shiny New Garden

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When we moved in to our new home, I was quite happy we had a pocket garden and a small back garden. It was nice and relaxing with bamboo tre...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Plantita Saturdays: Bottomless Spring Onions Grown from Kitchen Scraps

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Friday night last week I used some spring onions for dinner. It had roots so I thought I'd give planting spring onions again. I soaked t...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Plantita Saturdays: Bamboo for Your Garden, Yay or Nay?

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We were surprised our home came with bamboo planted all around the garden. It was pretty and it would sound very calming whenever the wind w...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Wellness Wednesdays: Plants Will Love You Back Always

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I had a huge headache yesterday. I avoided taking meds by spending some time with my plants. I just rubbed some oil on my forehead and then ...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Plantita Saturdays: Organized my Seeds

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I finally got around to organizing the seeds I've accumulated over the last few years. After watching several videos about germinating s...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Plantita Saturdays: New Season of Gardening!

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I'm declaring a new season of gardening! The past few months have been really challenging (higad infestation!) and I think we've fin...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Plantita Saturdays: Propagated Ginger from Kitchen Scraps

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We got a boatload of ginger from a friend. Made  salabat  and ginger candy out of it and since there were some nuggets left-over I thought I...
Saturday, August 6, 2022

Plantita Saturdays: Propagating Ginger and Tumeric

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The past two and a half weeks has been challenging. The boys are doing much better now and I hope I could have them back this weekend. With ...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Plantita Saturdays: Getting into Succulents!

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My track record with succulents is really bad. The culprit has always been overwatering. I just can't  ignore my plants! My doctor told ...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Plantita Saturdays: Propagating Pothos from Cuttings

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The pothos I brought home from Singapore didn't flourish. I had it in water since we got home and it slowly deteriorated. I suspect it...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Plantita Saturdays: Saving My Garden!

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The past few weeks have been challenging. We were surprised with the invasion of higad  in our garden. I immediately sprayed neem oil, but b...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Secret to Long Life

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Happy to share that we're doing well. Sweetie is still in isolation, but so far his antigen tests have been negative. To be sure he'...