tags: gardening plants

Plants


Butterfly pea

Source Gary Shih
Cost 0
Date obtained 20210417


Indian guava

Botanical name Psidium guajava
Source Bunnings stafford
Cost 14.98
Pot size 46 cm diameter Terracotta Pot
Date transferred into pots 20200225
Soil ingredients potting mix, compost, pine bark mulch, 1 soil scoop of worms


Indian guava 2

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Source Sharon
Cost 0
Date obtained 202104
Date transferred into pots 20210418
Pot 50 cm diameter
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Blueberry Biloxi

Botanical name Vaccinium virgatum
Source Bunnings underwood
Cost 14.98
Pot size 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Date transferred into pots 20200503
Soil ingredients

Watering history

  • 20200504 3.87 litre water with 2 table spoons apple cider vinegar, half to each of both plants
  • 20200510 7.6 litre water with 4 table spoons apple cider vinegar, half to each of both plants

Fertiliser

  • 20201018 11.5g Richgro all purpose gardenia, azalea, camellia fertilizer (at rate of 0.5 gram per 2cm pot size)

Blueberry Blue Rose

20200530 Blueberry blue rose

Botanical name Vaccinium corymbosum
Source Bunnings underwood
Cost 12.98
Else Same as above
History (1) Pot moved to a more shiny spot on 20200530 (2) Plant transferred to a small pot on 20200912 with soil= 100% Osmocote 25L Professional Rose, Gardenia, Azalea And Camellia Potting Mix, some peat moss underneath the plant root, and sugar cane mulch on top
Fertiliser

  • 20201018 7.5g Richgro all purpose gardenia, azalea, camellia fertilizer (at rate of 0.5 gram per 2cm pot size)

Blueberry sharpblue

Botanical name Vaccinium hybrid sharpblue
Source Bunnings newstead
Cost 14.98
Date obtained 20200905
Pot size 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Date transferred into pots 20200913
Soil ingredients


Blueberry Gulf Coast

Botanical name Vaccinium hybrid Gulf Coast
Source Bunnings underwood
Cost 14.98
Date obtained 20200920
Pot size 42 cm diameter
Date transferred into pots 20200920
Soil ingredients


Coffee Arabica

Source Gumtree seller Karla
Cost 2 each
Date obtained 20200922
Pot size
Date transferred into pots
Soil ingredients


Jackfruit

Variant Juicy jackfruit
Source Gumtree seller in Greenslopes
Cost 8
Pot size 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Date transferred into pots 20200510
Soil ingredients

  • 120 pebbles at bottom
  • 25 L potting mix, 10 L organic compost, some blood and bone, 2 L cow manure, 2 L pine bark mulch, 0.5 L spent coffee ground, 1 soil scoop of worms.
    Leachate appeared slowly in grow saucer after 6 L water added to the plant. The drainage isn't as good as the blue berry pots, which leachate seen after 3.87 L water added.

Hawaiian guava

Variant
Source Gumtree seller Val
Cost 6
Date purchase 20200517
Date transferred into pots 20200523
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Red cherry guava

Variant
Source Gumtree seller Val
Date purchase 20200517
Date transferred into pots 20200523
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Soursop seedling

Source Bunnings stafford
Date purchase 20200926
Cost 19.98
Date transferred into pots 20200926
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)

  • 2 soil scoops of cow manure spread to inner pot rim
  • 2 soil scoop of worms
  • paw paw peel and seeds, coffee ground (worm food)
  • Sugar cane mulch covered 5cm

Turkish fig

Variant
Source Gumtree seller Val
Cost 6
Date purchase 20200517
Date transferred into pots 20200523
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Dwarf mulberry

Botanical name Morus nigra
Source Bunnings stafford
Date purposed 20200522
Cost 6.98
Date transferred into pots 20200523
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)

  • pebbles
  • 1 part of each: organic soil (Upper Coomera Landscape Supply, 5.5/bag, 20L/bag), potting mix(Osmocote 50L Premium Potting Mix
  • 2 soil scoops of cow manure spread to inner pot rim
  • 1 soil scoop of worms
  • 1 pack of juice pulp (worm food)
  • 1 part of each: organic soil, potting mix
  • Sugar cane mulch
    ** Added veggie scrap including 2 shepard avocado seeds 20220218, indicated by yellow circle sticker on the side pot

Ceylon spinach

Source Dane Huang's garden
Date obtained 20200516
Cost 0
Date transferred into pots 20200523
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Pandan

Source Win, a gumtree seller 0421322321
Date obtained 20200614
Cost 12, 10
Date transferred into pots 20200621
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Perilla

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Source Win, a gumtree seller 0421322321
to be planted 1 month before early spring
Date obtained 20200614
Cost 5
Seeds collected from dead leaves on 20200621
Pot 500mm
Date transferred into pots 20210419
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Kaffir lime

Source Ladybird Fruit Trees Plant Nursery
Date obtained
Cost 35
Date transferred into pots 20200905
Pot 51 cm diameter, capacity about 60 litres
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Dwarf blood orange

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Source Bunnings Victoria Point
Cost 26.99
Date purchase 20210410
Date transferred into pots 20210418
Pot 50 cm diameter
Soil ingredients (buttom to top)


Worm cafe

Source Nicole, a gumtree seller 0419653367
Date obtained 20200328
Cost 40
Date of transferring 1000 worms 20200331
Date of transferring 2000 worms 20200422
Date of adding medium and food to second tray 20200927

  • Ingredients bottom to top: newspaper 1 sheet, reconstituted Brunnings coir peat 1 brick, coffee ground, scissor-cut newspaper, banana peel, rotten strawberry, 2 sheets newpaper on top

Soil ph

20200530 Blueberry blue rose pot soil ph test

20200530 passion fruit plant pot soil ph test


Fermenting fruit enzyme

**Date built ** 20200531
Jar 8 litre glass plum win bottle from Daiso
Ingredients

  • 2175 g pineapple skin,
  • 794 g water melon skin,
  • 706 g brown sugar,
  • 1.5 lemon,
  • 6.4 litre spring water

Fermenting prawn shell

jar 1

**Date built ** 20200531
Jar 10 litre spring water can with a tap and handle from Coles (4/each)
Ingredients

  • shell and heads of 36 banana prawns (1kg frozen from Coles, 18/kg),
  • 1.5 lemon peel,
  • 5 litre spring water

jar 2

**Date built ** 20200621
Jar 8 litre glass plum win bottle from Daiso
Ingredients

  • shell and heads of 47 king prawns (1kg unfrozen from Coles, 18/kg),
  • 2 lime peel,
  • 6 litre spring water