My Vegetables Garden

Gardening is one of my hobby and it takes a lot of patience and tendering. I have to learn alot of tips from some of gardening book or search it from the internet about how to grow or take care some of the flowers or vegetables etc. When I first did my gardening a year ago, I thought doing gardening was very easy here but it is not. The weather here in Houston, Texas is not the same as in my home country (Sarawak - Malaysia). You have to know when is best time to plant and which plants / vegetables can be grown here.

Whether you are new to gardening or a seasoned gardening pro, it is better to read some "Garden Guides" from the books or from the website. Just google whatever you want to know, you can find some very useful information and tips. By reading or getting information, it will certainly provide us a lot of help that we must know about gardening i.e. on plants, pests, gardening tips; techniques, nurseries; landscaping, and much more. I have problem with pest such as the vine borer in my garden especially the zucchinis and squashs. I still have to deal with it. It can be very frustrated seeing the plants dies eaten up by them. Other bugs may be I can deal with that.

I have a small vegetable garden at the backyard and flower beds on the front yard. I grow a few of each kind at my garden i.e. Zucchini, Tomatoes, Eggplants, corn, sweet banana peppers and some other vegetables. Here are some of the vegetables that I grow.

Some corn with some of "Sarawak Native Mustard" (ensabi).

Some zucchini and tomatoes plant.

Looks so fertile. Mixed soil with miracle gro.

My zucchinis all flowering, start to bear fruit.

Zucchini start to bear fruit. But I have problem with it here, the birds like to eat it.

An unusual squash. May be twin. :)

I took the picture the next day, I took the previous one. I don't think it will survive.

Food and Eating Time!!!!

Janet, Floria & Lina

Mag, Janet & Floria

Mag, Janet and Lina (Ready to eat).

This is what we do when we meet our friends or own people in another country. We would get together and cook or share the food that we have not eaten here. This happens once in a while. We missed all the good food we have at home in Sarawak. We chat and laugh and enjoy ourselves with our food. So feels like we are at home when we eat all the food here. Take a look at those food that we cooked and ate together.

Frozen Grounded Cassava Leaves.
I bought it from My Hua Stores (Vietnamese store), it was from the Philippines. Didn't know that they sold this at the stores.

I bought 2 packets.

This is how it looks like after we cook it.

These are Sarawakian Mustard (ensabi - Iban called it) that I grows at my garden at the backyard. I picked it this morning to cook for us.

Stir fry with onions, garlic and anchovies.

Stir fry zucchini leaves and pumpkin leaves. We experiment this as we have never done that before and it was really delicious. I grow few zucchinis at my garden.


Pork Ribs. Marinate it with All Seasons Salt. Then saute onions, garlic and ginger with olive oil in a big skillet, then add the pork ribs. Cook it for about 20 minutes and put 2 or 3 tablespoons of cooking wine. Stir it regularly. Then.. continue cooking for another 20 minutes. Add some thinly sliced Jalapeños (Green Peppers) and stir it. Reduce heat and cooking till tender.

Baked drumstick by Lina.

These are the dishes we cook. Not bad hah. Too much to eat actually.