6th Weekend Gardening: Finally...Sunflowers, Yard Long Bean, and Baby Carrots sprouted!

Happy 50th Malaysia Day! 

It's been a good past week back home in KL since the weather has finally cleared up. My small container garden is benefiting from the warm weather and it seems like all my seeds are finally sprouting!

New seeds sprouted...Sunflower!

Last weekend, I added a new plant to the garden; one of Adele's favourite plant...Sunflowers! I bought some Serbajadi brand seeds, and planted them all in a circular pot since I wasn't sure what the seed germination rate is. 3 days later, all the sunflower seeds have sprouted! J
Since the package label indicated these are the dwarf-type "Teddy Bear" sunflowers, I am planning on keeping 3 of these plants in the same pot.

Teddy Bear Sunflowers

On the long bean and carrot boxes, I resow some new seeds in the same weekend as I was planting the sunflower seeds. After two weeks of inactivity, either the previous seeds were bad, or they had just rotted due to the constant rain showers. I had better luck this time around, as the first long bean seed (shown below) finally sprouted at the same time as the sunflowers. By the 6th day, I have 4 healthy seedlings growing in each corner of the long bean box.

First long bean seed sprouted on the 3rd day

Yard Long Bean seedlings growing in each corner of the square box

As for the carrots, it was a welcoming sight to finally see them sprouting after a few days of sowing the 2nd batch of seeds. I didn't follow the "Square Foot Gardening" rule of sowing this 2nd batch of baby carrot seeds, as I was just testing to see if my soil and weather condition was suitable to grow them. Well, the test was a success but the seedlings are now growing too close to each other. I will be thinning them in the coming weekend to ensure the roots can continue to develop with sufficient spacing between the plants. For now, I'm just happy to finally see these baby carrots growing in the box.

Baby carrots seedlings

The okra plants continue to grow new leaves, and is now the highlight of my small little container garden. Mom and Adele are especially delighted to see this "twin okras" pot doing so well.  

The twin okras are still growing new leaves

One last question in my mind that I would like to share before I end this blog entry, is in regard to my lettuce planter...."Are these lettuce sprouts or just weeds?"

Lettuce sprouts or wild weeds?

Happy Gardening!