The pepper plants are here in the other half of our plot! 5 beauties with big leaves. The contractors came on Monday to plant them and also to plant lime plants- new ones- on Mr Nair's plot, the one that the class has been helping to weed. They look so fresh and healthy, I hope they remain thet way.
The workers removed the weeds from some of the plots and sprayed pesticide on most of them. We have been cautioned not to harvest ANYTHING for the next 40 days. Not that we'd have to worry, because I don't think any of the classes wants to harvest anything in the near future! And if we're doing weeding, it's best that we wash our hands THOROUGHLY after that, even though we've worn gloves. I wonder about the strength of the pesticide, given all the advice mentioned above. Sounds rather toxic to me.
Quite a lot of the lemongrass clumps have also been pulled out. You can practically walk among the existing ones without the leaf blades tickling your legs now :) The overall look is neat, tidy- spick and span, so to speak. But as Mr Nair and I were looking at the Garden this afternoon, we both agreed that those nasty weeds would make a comeback pretty soon, so we still need to be extra "gung-ho" in our maintenance of our new pepper babies and the lemongrass. I will take pictures of the plot and post them here soon. Keep a lookout for them.
To update everyone, we've got the following plants in the Emerald Garden:
Aloe vera, pandan, curry, kangkong, ginger (two varieties), turmeric, chilli, lemongrass, lime, pepper and a few others that I have to confirm wih Mdm Zulaiha. :)
