Yellow Mushroom in Terrarium!

Slowly but surely, those yellow mushroom invaded my terrarium. I think it was on the soil waiting for the right condition to grow. They are harmless yet beauty so I keep them in there as long as they last :-)

Flame seedless grape!

Grapes are ripen! It flowered on May and now they are ready to be harvested. I didn't have experience this time so I didn't pinched out some grape. I learned that by pinched and thinned some fruit out, it help the rest bigger. Despite the small size, they are very sweet :-)

Ice box baby sugar water melon!

I picked up this Ice box baby sugar water melon last month at Home Depot nursery. They are growing fast and now started flowering. Each plants has several male and female flowers. I pinched off the first flowers. When they had flowers again for second time, I hand pollinated them early in the morning.

I didn't see much bee up here so hand pollinated is a key to have fruit.

Kishu Mandarine!

The local nursery just had this lovely Kishu Mandarine in stock. I wanted it so badly because it was very hard to find but it was a kind of pricy so I had to go with the cheapest option means bought the younger plant. I don't know when it will have fruit but small plant mean I can keep it indoor. The information said it will bloom in Spring. Keep finger crossed.

I found a lovely Made in Vietnam pot at Ross and potted the plant with organic soil and Citrus slow release fertilize. It's the first time I grow citrus indoor so let's wait and see :-)

Japanese cucumber!

The Japanese cucumber I picked up at the nursery last month is now blooming. When I first picked it up, it was about a feet tall and had some flowers. I pinched off all of the flowers so the plant could save its energy to develop the root system. This is very important thing I just learned after one of my tomato didn't grow very well when I left all the first flowers and fruits on the plant as I got it from the nursery.

This is female flower. I couldn't find the male flower to hand pollinate it so I don't know if it will become fruit.

Harvesting update - 07/07/2014

A 12" tasty juicy cucumber ;-)

Harvesting and flowers!

This was the first time I ever tasted a beefsteak tomato. Since I never saw it at the store, I tried to grow one. After four month, this was the first one ripen. It tasted very good, thick juicy meat.

 My fava bean got burned by the heat wave last week and here were some beans left to harvest. They taste very sweet. I was able to eat them all raw.

The sunflower was seeded by bird. It grew very fast. This one was about 3 weeks. I will save them for seed to feed the birds back :-).

 I thought this dwarf pomegranate plant couldn't survice because it was so tiny week and got pest all over it. But this summer, it gave me so many flowers on it's 12 inches tall body.

 The first strawberry. Very big, tasty and good looking.

 These also first harvest bluberry and alpine strawberry. They tasted so good!

 My olallie blackberry gave me just three fruits for the first time. I hope it will survice this summer.

Saving Private...Blueberry!

My bountiful blueberry wasn't doing good in the summer heat. Its leaves were getting dry, also the fruit. The fruit tasted really tart even they looked ripe. I didn't know what to do. I used specific soil for blueberry and add fertilize every month. I ordered the PH soil test and tested it today. The soil wasn't acidic enough but it shouldn't be the reason for dry leaves. Some people on the gardening forum had the same problem with their blueberry in California so I guess the "full sun" rule din't apply here. They said they moved their blueberry to a shading area and it worked great! I gave it a try.

 Leaves were drying.

 Also the fruits.

 I got new soil and re pot the plant to make sure I did everything right at one. Because of that, I found out the root ball wasn't develop much after fourth months. It still has the same shape of the nursery pot when I first got it. I think I made a mistake of not loosing the root ball from beginning. So I gave it a good shake, loosed up the root and re pot it with new soil that had the right PH level.

I hope it will work and my blueberry will stay with me.