Edible Garden - Oki spinach and basil

An Edible Garden is fun as you can eat the fruits of your labour.

I tried to plant Okinawan spinach from one cutting cut into 2 stems. Alas, the first stem died as I had planted it before rooting. I had read somewhere that it could be planted this way. Well, this did not work out for me. The second cutting fared better after some roots grew in the water first.

Okinawan spinach from a friend. Made a salad with some of the leaves.

4 Mar 2018: Two cuttings in water. The leaf-less cutting survived 1-2 weeks in soil before it rotted.

Those leaves at the side of the pot are Indian Borage leaves. I stuck them in there to suck up some water, because I had over-watered on some days.

22 Mar 2018: First planted.

3 Apr 2018

10 Apr 2018

14 Apr 2018

26 Apr 2018

Bought a pot of sweet basil from NTUC supermarket. Cut up the big basil leaves for a pasta. There were about 5-6 plants in this pot.

7 Apr 2018: In the original brown pot, the long roots were growing out of the holes at the bottom.

Placed into a water bath.

Took the basil plants out of the pot and separated them. They cannot survive long in the original pot. Some plants spent a day or two in water, others a bit longer. Only two plants survived. The biggest one ..no, although it looked so strong.

Only two small plants managed to survived.

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