New year, Old garden

After a week of intense heatwave, the weather is a bit cooler today albeit very humid.

And after a week of heatwave, a lot of our plants have suffered “heat stress” even though The Other Half religiously water them every morning and every afternoon.

Kesian betul tengok some of the pokok, memang hidup segan mati tak mau aje.

But some other plants pulak are really loving the high temperature and suddenly started flowering dengan banyak nya and started producing dengan banyaknya.

The Other Half aje lah yang tahan untuk keluar ke kebun hari2 menyiram the plants.

Itupun he would wear long sleeved tshirts, pants, big hat and sunscreen just untuk keluar siram pokok!

And he still got a bit sunburnt!

I cuma keluar untuk petik sayur untuk kegunaan masak aje.

Nak belai2 and nak prune and trim the plants, tak kuasa I in that weather.

Nak jemur kain pun I akan letak the laundry basket and the clothes pegs basket under the shade and with a big hat, I will dash under the sun to hang 1 piece of clothing and then dash back to be under the shade!

Punyalah kan!

It took so long to hang 1 basket of laundry that by the time I hang the last piece of clothing, the first one dah kering, kahkahkahkah….

But it is true though, panas sangat, 5 minit dah kering.

And since hari ni sejuk sikit, I pun keluar lah jenguk2 the kebun petang tadi and The Other Half pun siap boleh mow the lawns lagi tu.

We found so many oversized zucchinis in the garden. Sebab tak kuasa nak jenguk the zucchinis masa panas2 tu, tu yang terbiar sampai jadi besar.

And look how big one of them was.

Macam dokong baby aje kan!

I wonder what The Other Half was thinking at that time…. .

Probably it’s more on the line of “thank goodness we haven’t got one of them. Don’t think I can cope with sleepless nights, diaper changing, unconsolable crying anymore! Now I just have to cope with them answering back, the sulking and the female mood swings!”

Wahkahkahkahkah….

Yang pastinya, pokok kacang panjang memang pokok climate panas sebab sangatlah happynya diaorang during the heatwave.

Suddenly, berlambak2 kacang panjang we all dapat.

The tomatoes pun dah nak sampai ke penghujungnya, tinggal a few bunches aje.

Dek sebabkan we all tak letak stakes and tak ikat the tomato plants, menjalar dia kat atas tanah onto the grass…

Kesian pokok tomato ni, terbiar aje, hehehe.

And another plant yang seronok with the high temperature are the watermelons.

Setiap kali I nak reverse park the car masuk garage, kena hati2 sebab tak nak langgar penyek the watermelon plants yang dah menjalar atas driveway tu.

By the way, itu bukan lalang ye, itu serai, heeee……

And our grapes have started to ripen…

Tapi kesian sangat because I think they are experiencing water and heat stress kot..

Terlampau panas and tak cukup air.. .

Sebab some of the grape berries dah kecut2 on the vines and some pulak merekah2 macam panas sgt…

Some of them are still very tart while some of them are already edible.

But we all nak tunggu a few more weeks kot.

The green grape variety still tak fully ripen yet.

Lepas ni kena siram air banyak2 lah ke pokok grapes ni.

And our rose bushes pun tengah sedih skrg sebab panas sangat2 and then tak cukup air jugak.

I tak sempat nak prune the dead flowers so takde sangat lah new growth.

All the flowers pun kering sangat2, tak cantik the blooms.

And tadi we harvested jugak lah some of the veges so tak tua kat pokok.

Lepas lah kan sayur for he next few days .