I have a small plot of garden space in front of my house. This is where I take my time off to do a little bit of gardening. For the record, this space was full of rocks and yellow mud that you basically feel that you can't grow anything off it. I took about 3-4 weeks of digging using a mini gardening shovel. I could use a hoe but I was afraid of hitting the water pipe that under it. To make the soil fertile, in those 3-4 weeks of digging, I had buried all sorts of food waste in the soil. I have planted quite a lot of vegetables (chinese cabbage, dwarfed long beans, mustard greens, bok choy) since then which all grow up nice and big. Right now I have removed all of them to plant different kind of vegetables. With the current lockdown situation here, it has also given me time to work on the garden.

This is the Thai Basil which is planted in the ground. Look at how big and healthy the leaves are. Be sure to trim away the flowers if you see it. This will help to keep it young and have big leaves. This is Wife favourite plant and would add it in her soup noodles all the time. 

These lemongrass grown in 9.5 litres mineral bottles. The second lemongrass was just planted 2 weeks back with just one stalk. It has now grown new stalk. I have lemongrass growing outside the house too but that's planted in the ground. Wife wanted to plant it on the ground saying that it would grow better. Well, I prefer having it grown in the pot since I can better manage it as well as easily moving here and there. The lemongrass is fragrant and naturally repels mosquitoes so it seems.  

This pot of Indian Borage (Mexican Mint) was planted off a cutting that Wife bought from the market. The original plant was planted in a pot but went dead after Wife added the garden soil in to the pot. I took a cutting before it was fully dead and planted in this new pot and as can be seen it is growing beautifully now. This is one useful plant as the leaves are boiled into a tea to treat asthma, fever, colic, nausea, rheumatism, coughs, urinary tract infection, epilepsy, and convulsion. The leaves are commonly used to treat coughs. The simple easy method to use it is to chew a leaf. For me personally, I make the tea by boiling the leaves in water with rock sugar or a spoonful of honey. If you have blocked nose, you can try to rub the leaves together and inhale the vapor. Or better still is to crushed the leave and put it in a bowl of hot water. Cover yourself with towel and inhale the vapor.

These are Vietnamese Coriander which I had planted in a pot. There is another plant which I had grown it on the ground. This is a low, creeping plant that is slowly spreading into groundcover. The Vietnamese cilantro plant is used to hot weather and is a sucker for water. The below is a self watering pot but this plant will drink up all the water easily in 2-3 days in a hot weather. You need to keep its soil moist at all times as allow it to dry out and it will wilt almost immediately. You can see the leaves turn yellow and dried up soon enough. I personally love the smell of this much better than the Thai Basil.

I will return with more plants from my garden. Till then.