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Why? The most obvious reason is the taste. If you have the chance to meet my daughter, she will tell you with shining eyes, “because they taste like jelly beans!” Imagine, strawberries that looked and tasted like jelly beans, and packed with vitamins and all the natural goodness that jelly beans don’t have! Just ask […]
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When Alan Tan visited me on Oct 26 2015 and saw my new transplant strawberry patient, he said, ” This one cannot liao! “… and for most plants, he would be right too ! 🙂 Treatment – Strawberries plants CAN RECOVER ! 🙂 Alan Tan’s sick seedlings also recovered under his excellent care 🙂 […]
Continue ReadingThe plants that often intrigue us in Singapore are ones thats not meant to grow in our tropical climate! 🙂 Lavender today (Oct 29 2015)  from one post in our Facebook group, ” SG Farming in Apartments”, and strawberries are my all time favorite plants to grow in Singapore! If we cannot put our plants […]
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Home Made Compost is possible in crowded, urban tropical cities like Singapore. This process of recycling kitchen green waste into compost for gardening is good for plants, ourselves, and the environment. Look at how my edibles garden turned out with this “homemade” super soil for yourself! From THIS – An abandoned dying citrus […]
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More than half of our 30 strawberry plants died from transplanting woes than from Singapore tropical weather. This is an experience earned the hardest way. And the reason why this blog is set up, to share our knowledge. 2 weeks old Seedlings Transplant Young Seedlings ( 1 – 3 […]
Continue ReadingPossible to add ground coffee to top soil without increasing pests in tropical Singapore’s apartment? No Time!!! Rushing for work in the morning!! Strawberries care is only for people who are not working? 🙂 Actually, it takes less time than you need to water normal plants and still add to the acidic and cooler soil […]
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2015 When we started on this journey in March 2015, it was just one nondescript table by a sunny window in a bedroom. Then two tables started filling up with plants as we gained confidence in gardening. Papaya, lychee, and any seed that stroke our curiosity were tried. We saw how […]
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Our wild strawberries’ journey began on September 1, 2015. This was our second alpine variety in 2015. Please follow the germination tips in this link. My variety was “Fragaria Vesca” or Woodlands Strawberries. This pack (local supermarkets’ brand) of seeds did not have a good germination rate. Out of 30 seeds, […]
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In 2017, we began a new exploration of white wild Alpine strawberries varieties in KRATKY (passive hydroponic) method. These varieties are not common commercially and too fragile to ship, thus we had to grow them from seeds. We were keen to grow them out of curiosity because their taste profiles were described as intensely […]
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3 EASY steps to germinate strawberry seeds in Singapore : I) Bright morning sun room in normal SG temperature (NO air-conditioning) Cool breeze ventilated the germinating trays which were recycled from fruit packaging. 2) Don’t bury the seeds! Seeds sowed on the soil surface as shown: […]
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The day finally arrived to pick and taste the fruits of our labor! No one, not even ourselves, anticipated that this day would arrive so quickly. We picked our first SG strawberries on October 20, 2015, two months earlier than expected. As our plants are cultivated in water bottles and not […]
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In March 2015, my 11-year-old daughter’s birthday wish was to harvest strawberries in our apartment. 🙂 It would not be a hard wish to grant if we were living in a temperate climate region, but we are living in Singapore, a tropical country. Right from the start, we were met with disbelief and skepticism […]
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