easiest to grow and maintain in 2021

The easiest veggie to grow and maintain with zero chemical pesticides and fertiliser was hands down the kangkung, followed by chives. 

Kangkung was just plain hardy. Even when ravaged by pests, and I didnt harvest for some time which meant the pest had undisturbed time to do max damage... after pruning heavily the affected leaves, the plant would bounce back like new. On top of that I have yet to add new seeds. This was the first plant I attempted to grow, and it has continued to feed us for years. I have limited it to just 2 small boxes so that we don't have an oversupply. 

Chives was the only plant that didnt get attacked by insects. The only problem was weeds, especially one of the grass species that looked exactly like chives! Who knows, we might have eaten quite a bit of grass over this year. 

Happy New Year

ginger leaves affected by rain

I think its the bad weather we have had. Since the top part of the shoot is dying, I thought I'd harvest earlier.

Also maybe leave a couple of shoots in the ground to see if it will carry on. My finger isd pointing at the point where I broke off a section.

Previously I have harvested completely. This is the ones I pulled out. 

Finally enough for 1 meal

 Finally grew enough plants to harvest for one lunch veggie dish.

This veggie is really good for you but I read somewhere that it's toxic if eaten raw! Anyways all the Chinese restaurants have this in their soups so the cooked version must be healthy.

A drop of water is all it needed

 I left some ulam raja seeds outside to pass to a friend. I didnt notice a drop of water from the rain. This morning the one seed that was wet started to grow.

Chive (kuchai) flowers

 Nice delicate white flowers