mulberry

                   

I planted this mulberry 15 years ago. I shared the fruits with birds, but this year the harvest was bountiful. I picked between 1-1.5 kg a day.  The black ones were sweet, it was eaten fresh, the red one is sweet and sour, good for fruit preserve and pie. I have about 5 kg in the freezer.

Drought: all is not lost

Now the weather is almost like Mediterranean, Cold at night and early morning, windy and hot in the afternoon, no rain past 2 months. Grass and my entire newly sprouted seedling are dead. However some potted plants really love it.

dead grass

left over chinese cabbage

rosemary flower

Tomato "gardener delight" plants with many flowers

so many fruits: to my delight

True to its name

Mulberry: partially eaten by house sparrow

as big as my index finger

Fruit in every branches

Berries

In addition to local fruits i also love to eat berry, my legacy from a stint in Europe. Try to grow berry (raspberry, blueberry, blackberry and strawberry).

Despite doing all that i can to simulate its natural condition, only a few strawberries germinate.

 This strawberry seedling is the sole survivor of caterpillars attack.

This strawberry plant has produced  runners. Now i have 7 pots of strawberry plant . However after 5 months there is still no fruit!

                                     
  But i have mulberry which is the favourite of house sparrow. Most of the time they   end up with bigger share than me.

                                

I also have seedling of local berry ( pokok kemunting) . It is very slow growing; i wonder how long it will take before I can taste the fruit of my labour.