Category: Experiments
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Putting our plants on drip before travelling
Every time before a long trip, I would have to make sure that every plant has a “water bottle”. The spider plants have been the best and seem to adjust very well. Not too sure about the succulents but they should be quite low-maintenance (we shall see). We started a little kale farm last October.…
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Glycerin bath experiment – gone wrong :(
Two days into the glycerin bath experiment, I think I might have screwed it up – brown blemishes started appearing on the parts that were covered by mason jar lids. Did the metallic lids react with glycerin? Or was it the aluminium tray? I wish I knew. I’m not even sure if these two days…
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Glycerin bath experiment
Somewhere in December, I picked out some fallen leaves on our walks. I want to bring them back to Singapore for the family leaf book that my father has. I showed him the leaves over a video call and he sighed “If only the colours could stay this way…” Before I found a way to…
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Our unconventional Christmas tree
It’s Christmas! We refuse to buy a tree and dump it away after the new year. Neither do we want to have a tree in our house all year round. We looked around the house and identified our biggest pot of green – the mother of all our spider plants. We are very proud of…
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Mini kale harvest
We had a tiny harvest that was plenty for us. It was fun roasting and munching our kale chips! Note to self: Mix kale in a bowl with 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil + 1 tsp salt and pepper. Spread them out nicely on a baking tray without any overlapping. Bake at 400°F (200°C)…
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A suitcase of greens
My suitcase broke. It is a suitcase that has followed me around the world for the last five years. Finally, after travelling to Trinidad and Tobago, a wheel came off and ended any possibility of future travels. After using it as storage space for a while, I decided to recycle it as a planter box.…
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