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franz's non-chili plants

my newly bought variegated calamansi/calamondin from manila seedling bank foundation:

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italian oregano, kinchay, rosemary, laurel....

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one of my favorite herbs of all time: DILL!

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pandan from ichigo and variegated oregano

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cuban oregano, as far as i can tell the visual differences of cuban oregano and local oregano is that cuban has darker leaves? hard to tell them apart.

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Those are some nice shots even with a old camera, is the soy bean a climbing type or a bush type? I planted some bush type soy beans this year that did really well, along with some red chinese noodle beans that were a heavy producer of two foot long beans. I also grew one called Taiwan black seeded with 30 inch long beans which were very tasty in stir fries.
Oh BTW I get some of my seeds from Baker's Creek Heirloom seeds they ship seeds every where even to Afganastan and Turkey. They have a lot of really good varieties, might be worth checking them out.
George W.
 
I've been looking to find a vining soy bean, most that we have for sale in the States are a bush type. I have a friend up in Canada that grows a lot of legumes he might know where I can get some seeds. Are you growing any eggplants and what kind are they? I'm growing some this year that have small egg size fruit on them they took a long time to grow at first, but they are all in flowers now So it won't be to much longer. I save a lot of my own seeds now, so that I don't have to buy a lot of seeds all the time, which is better than having to pay someone else for seeds, I just have to remember not to eat up everything that I want seeds from.
George W.
 
Are you growing any eggplants and what kind are they?
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i got some white egg, domino, black beauty, taiwan eggplant and another one that i seem to keep forgetting. lol.


i'd like to save my own seeds as well. which is why i have a hard time deciding when i end up getting hybrid varieties. but i can always clone them i guess. =D

also looking around for some local variety limes like "dayap".
 
right! the chou naga.

hehe.

chou naga in japanese means big snake / great serpent

depends on how you interpret it. hehe.
 
variegated oregano given to me by an acquaintance. beside it a pandan plant given to me by siling_labuyo

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my basil now bouncing back after getting some odd black furry bug pest and my harvesting of leaves. aerated compost tea really helped it along.

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citronella, bouncing back after getting trimmed severely given to me by the same acquaintance. friend of siling_labuyo

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found a stingless bee pollinating these flowers. that's mint by the way. too bad i didn't capture the moment.

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vines of a sweet potato, they don't grow the root crop but we eat the leaves. tasty stuff. grows like a weed.

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my tomato happily chugging along

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domino eggplant, seed from siling_labuyo

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edamame soybeans, lucky lion variety. growing more new leaves and producing more pods. better producer than my korean variety.

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bokchoy finally doing some growing. going to reseed this again hoping for more bokchoy.

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been fighting off whiteflies and aphids for the past month or so. =(

litchi tomatoes in the ground!

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my tallest tomato plant. tied from a tree hehe.

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beefsteak tomatoes and a domino eggplant in the ground!

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You've got a nice garden going there Franz.
It looks like it really takes a beating when you get a lot of rain.
Your calamansi/calamondin tree has some impressive fruit...nice size for such a small plant.
How big will the tree grow? Do you plan to eventually plant it in the ground?
 
You've got a nice garden going there Franz.
It looks like it really takes a beating when you get a lot of rain.
Your calamansi/calamondin tree has some impressive fruit...nice size for such a small plant.
How big will the tree grow? Do you plan to eventually plant it in the ground?
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thanks chili monsta.

it does when super typhoons pass through here, everything gets torn up. which is why i planted these after they came through here this year. looks like i'll be planting yearly and hope to God the storms don't kill my babies. i got the calamansi as is, i had repotted it into a slightly bigger grow bag and replaced the rice hull medium to my regular potting soil. the fruit was already there when i got it. i'm just leaving it alone til i find a good spot for it. and yes, i do plan on putting it in the ground eventually. just not yet. as these grow slowly, i'll be concentrating my peppers and tomatoes first. =D

here's my litchi tomato after being put in the ground, under it is an ugly looking lemon "tree".

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one of the windows i grow my tomatoes, peppers and eggplants, view from the first floor (garage)

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Nice stuff!
I think your oregano is marjoram, the Cuban oregano for sure, not sure about the variagated & couldn't get a good look at the Italian. True oregano does not have succulent type leaves.
 
Nice stuff!
I think your oregano is marjoram, the Cuban oregano for sure, not sure about the variagated & couldn't get a good look at the Italian. True oregano does not have succulent type leaves.
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i'll try to post more pix of my "oregano" to be clearer. =D
 
siling_labuyo said:
we use that succulent type of oregano as an medicinal herb for cough and dry phlegm.
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It's marjoram, but it's in the oregano family. I'll post some pics later of oregano & marjoram. It's funny that it's called "Cuban oregano" all the latinos I know call it oregano, depending which one you're talking about the other one is always, "the other oregano"
 
here's a picture of marjoram, from home and gardening website:

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here's my 2 oregano varieties:

one of my italian oregano plants

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my variegated cuban oregano (inner and outer variegation)

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my regular cuban oregano

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they don't look like any marjoram i've seen.
 
odd looking tomato plant. it's a green zebra. wonder if they're really determinates and potato leafed.

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my teeny tiny carrots that i decided to dig up and try. these were planted around 3 months ago. i guess i didn't have enough K in my soil. moved the other plants in a bigger container. instructions said i should harvest them after 110 days. i was too impatient. lol. i tasted these and they were SOOOOO SWEET and had tons of carrot flavor. organically grown. definitely gonna plant more. just gotta find a proper container and a soil amendment combination for carrots.

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