God-given malabar spinach harvest

 These are some of the prunings from a malabar spinach vine I didnt plant. 

Malabar Spinach #3

The Malabar spinach seeds I bought quite a while back are still germinating when planted. The 1st attempt did really well, with 3 plants supplying leaves for us, our neighbours, and extended family. The 2nd attempt failed; it's probably coz I planted the them in the same spot as the first.

The soil must have been void of the nutrients needed by that species. Now the 3rd go will be at a new spot. Near the banana tree. Here are the seedlings.

I will plant all of them and as they mature, pick the strongest 2 or 3 to carry on.

All planted.

The dog often digs in this area so I have to build some kind of barrier to the base of the plant. 

Done!

Utilise more of the fence

Only one of the Malabar spinach plants made it to maturity. I am guiding it around the fence so as to get a larger plant. Previously I let it climb straight up the fence and cropped off the top.

Mixed salad

 An assortment from the garden for today's lunch... mostly leaves with some damage

That long funny odd shaped leaf on the top right is one of the newer greens I have started. There is also a small curly leaf kale plant that I completely uprooted coz it was small and yellowing before I could harvest any mature leaves. A tiny brinjal. Bottom left was a  Malabar spinach shoot that popped up between some other plant. It was far from any climbing surface so removed it. The flat kale on the top left were mostly leaves with browning tips. Oh yeah and some tomatoes from our dying plant that just keeps on giving!!

Malabar spinach - out with the old, in with the new

 I have cut off the vines for some time now. Today pulled this octopus out of the ground. It really looked like one coz the roots had knobs on them. And they still had quite a bit of texture/moisture in them.

Then planted 6 seedlings in that area. I will keep the 3 best.

Today's harvest/lunch

It was a rainy morning so just a quick harvest of brinjal, kangkung & malabar spinach

Strangling the Malabar Spinach and bitter gourd doing good

I used an old badminton racket string to help the Malabar Spinach climb the fence. Unfortunately it was cutting the plant due to the weight of the vine. So added a bit of used bubble wrap to distribute the pressure. 

Harvested quite a bit..

The metal ruler on the bottom left (13 inches from tip to tip) is just for scale. Check out the size of the leaves in the white basket on the right!

Our neighbour as a few bitter gourd plants in a pot outside and is using our fence to climb. It's coming along well...

Quite a bit of Malabar Spinach

Our harvest today :)

The extra was split between my mum and neighbour.

giant Malabar Spinach

I harvested this from just one vine....

One of the leaves was the size of my face. Here it is next to Zoey for perspective (she looks better than me)...

She didn't appreciate me sticking that close to her face!!!

Reuse Repurpose

An old lanyard redirecting the Malabar Spinach