Late Warm Harvest Continues

Our warm season vegetable/fruit harvest were late this year for picking.

For example, we usually don't harvest any cucumbers in May.

But our white spine cucumber and lemon cucumber has just started to supply our kitchen.

I don't have much luck with lemon cucumber.

The lemon cucumber in our garden is not very prolific.

I am hoping I have success collecting white spine cucumber seeds this year.

Eggplants harvest still continues here in May.

Cherrytime capsicum is the most prolific in our garden this year grown from our home-saved seeds.

We harvested several Turkish Leopard Melons.

I think this melon is very heat-tolerant as they survive with neglect and little watering.

The white flowers are weeds growing between the melon plant.

Show how lazy I have become and not caring much about the plant.

Da Cheong Chae thinnings.

Earlier this month, I was a bit impatient and I harvested chocalate capsicum while they were still green or not fully ripen but left some to ripe. Last weekend some has ripen for picking. 

Big surprise from the garden is that we got a cauliflower harvest from a one year old plant left growing at the back of our backyard fence. The plant had survived our extreme summer heat without much watering. Amazingly the cauliflower was one of the tastiest home-grown cauliflower I have ever tasted so creamy and sweet, pack full of flavour. I thought it was going to be bitter as the cauliflower curd form in warm weather. Other harvest last week was summer grown carrots, beetroots and eggplants. Finally some of our long chilli has also ripen was so spicy.

We also have some fresh salmon trouts last weekend.

Our house fisherman learn a few trick from his friend and found a new good spot for fishing.

I probably be left alone with Rayyan each Saturday morning now this month.

Visit Daphne's Dandelions for Harvest Monday!

Brinjal with spicy potato

Its time to comfort myself with food.

The veggies flavour is also tasting much better now as we are having warm mild weather during the day.

Nights can be around 15 degree Celsius this week.

I have not really cook that much these days.

Many of the veggies has been left over ripe.

Not picking them as often as I should.

Brought in the last batch of garlic in the kitchen that were left curing in the shed.

'Black Beauty' brinjals (eggplants) had holes in it from admirers.

Some of the brinjals has interesting looking resident in it taking shelter from the previous heat I think.

We have "Red Romaine" lettuce volunteer around the garden.

I left some go to seed previous spring.

Thank you to Mr. H for the lettuce seeds.

I have kept a recipe from Troth Wallis ~ The Globe Vegetarian Kitchen recipe book since last year to try in my recipe file. The recipe is said to come from the Moluccas in Indonesia which is formerly known as the Spice Island. It was the source of many spices, such as cloves and nutmeg that was highly prized in Europe during the trading era. The taste of this 'brinjal with spicy potato' dish actually remind me of Indian dish rather than South East Asian dish. But this is not surprising because the old empire in Malaysia and Indonesia were first highly influence by India empire and culture before it was colonised. I think adding a handful of curry leaves will be more interesting for this dish after I tried this recipe.

Brinjal/ Eggplants with Spicy Potatoes (serves 2-4)

Ingredient:

1 brinjal (diced)

2 potatoes (diced and parboiled)

1 onion (sliced)

1/2 tsp chili powder (I used chilli/sambal oelek)

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1/2 tsp turmeric

1/2 inch piece fresh ginger root, chopped

lemon/lime juice (from 1 fruit)

oil

salt

a handful washed curry leaves (optional)

(1) Heat the oil in a pan and cook the onion until it is clear and soft.

(2) After that put in the chili, mustard seeds, turmeric, ginger, curry leaves and salt. Cook on a gentle heat, stirring to mix well. Then turn up the heat, add the brinjal and parboiled potatoes and brown them, turning to prevent them catching.

(3) Add a little water to cover the base of the pan, put the lid on and cook gently for 10 minutes or so until the vegetables are tender and the liquid is absorbed. Add lemon/lime juice mix well.

Join in Robin Thursday's Kitchen Cupboard and Wendy Garden to Table Challenge.

Thank you for your advise about the stolen post

I hope everyone benefit from comments@advise from my previous posting by blogger friends about stolen post/photos about what to do when your post has been stolen or how to prevent them from being taken. I really appreciate each helpful advise and your kind support. I have reported to blogger and gave them 10URL postings from the thief blog that belongs to me and blogger has taken action within less than a day  to delete this 10postings from that theif blog. It will take me sometime to report more than 300 posts that it is still there. Hmmm...wondering how to convince blogger to close that theif blog account since it will be much easier for me.

Any suggestion?

I have just left comment to the theif blog today about deleting all my post on that blog will see what that person will do.

Daphne reminded us that there is a link at the top to report abuse example for stealing copyrighted material.

Autumn Belle gave 3 points to protect your copyright:

1) Install 'right click disabled' on the blog post.

2) Insert watermarks in photos

3) Insert a copyright message in all blog post.

You can also get the right click disabled code from Herny to copy the code.

Tina give good tips for 'Feed Setting', better set it to short than a full one. My Feed setting was full so I think that is the reason it was easier to copy the whole post. Thus, I have changed it to short. 

There are also several good links from blogger friends as well left in the comments from my previous post.

Cooking varieties has recently posted about stealing other blogger post.

A few posts/photos being stolen is not unusual but all of your postings will be too much. Hope many benefits from my unfortunate experience and helpful to alert other blogger especially new members in the blogger community.

It has taken me years to gain confidant on myself for speaking publicly about my thoughts and share my experience by blogging. Instead of keeping quiet about this matter, I decided to take action. I was annoyed this time because some family personnel post is there as well such as Rayyan previous surgery postings. 

To be more positive thinking and on a cheerful sight from our garden space,  we got bitter gourd, capsicum, cucumber, beans and eggplant for fresh harvest for last week and hopefully this week too. Beet roots are also available for fresh picking (notice anything on the beetroot?).

To avoid our only 5 jicama (yam bean) plants tuber from getting rotten, I harvested them earlier this year compared to last year as the weather can be under 15 degree Celsius at night now. Jicama tubers are very sensitive with cold, prone to rot. Harvested tubers were about the same size last year but last year harvest was much sweeter. I think because we have warmer summer this year so less moisture in the soil effect the taste. Two of the tubers are really small though and one has cracked indicates not given enough water. These was sowed in October and growing in container with okra. The plants did produce buds but they never bloom here. However, early January I went back to Malaysia and did manage to sow some jicama seeds in my mother garden. My cousin reported that there are jicama flower blooming in my mother garden and some has produce seed pods to save seeds from the ones I sowed. Jicama really likes humidity and needs plenty of moisture to grow well. It will be a challenge for hot and dry summer to grow them but it still can be fun not impossible.

This is for Sean. 

I grow kangkong for 3 years in our garden during warm season.

But this is the first time, the kangkong plant gave me a bloom.

I was really surprised.

I would not notice it, if I don't water the plant in the morning last weekend,

That is why there are water droplets on the plant.

I did not one to bore anyone with my kangkong harvest this week, 

so I like to share the kangkong bloom instead.

Resemble closely to morning glory since they belong to the same family.

Join in Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday.

I still left many question in comments unanswered yet.

Will reply, sorry for the wait though.

Someone has been stealing all my blog postings!!!

I need help and advise.

I am not sure how to complain to blogger administrators regarding this matter.

Tried to browse through the 'Report Abuse' but the legal term was too hard for me to comprehend.

Take a look at this blog and you can clearly see that the postings is mine with all the images and wording exactly 100% of what I have done.

'Konsultasi Budidaya' blog

What really surprise me is that they copied my posting from my first one!

As clearly seen the header is not my blog- Kebun Malay-Kadazan Girls.

But

why is it Konsultasi budidaya.

I think this blog has also copied from other blogger as well.

How many do you think they have copied up till the recent one they updated from my postings?

They have copied up till this post.

So all together they have stolen 349POSTs from me.

I usually don't mind if people use my photos and post by linking or giving credits to me even without my permission.

It is not right if I did the whole job of photos and writing but the end of these posting is not my pen name but I see these name at the end of the post- Posted by Lobster Air tawar.

At the moment, I am only using two pen names for blogger- Malay-Kadazan Girls or TukangKebun.


This is very shocking and I feel a bit less motivated to post because it kept getting stolen.
The photos are convincingly mine as I often uses watermarks.

Thanks to Sean for alerting me this matter.

Its very weird as well if I look at my most popular posting hits.

Its not a kind of post that I would expected I get readers for this posting everyday.

So I had checked the URL which often came up when this posting has been read,

I found that the post 'Kitaran Hidup Bayam' is often link back to one of this agro commercial company in Indonesia. Isn't it a lie to your customer when you are using someone else post? On top of that from a different country.

The okra 'clemson spineless' life-cycle post also been used in several webpage sites about okras without any notification from them to me. But it is an educational one for gardeners who likes to try grow okra and the links comes back to my post blog. So I just turn a blind eye for this one.

Sigh, I have already track many website that steal my postings for their commercial use.

But this is more surprising -all of my posting stolen.

I really need a tutorial help on how to complain.
I should start getting serious.
Don't feel like rambling on our garden adventure at the moment ;(.

What do you do in this situation?

Creamgold Onion

The year 2011 was the second year for us growing brown onions. The result was a bit better than our first time but we still have a lot to learn. I still can't get the right pace at the stage of near harvesting and storing them well (I was on my first trimester-yucky phase so did not keep an eye of it-excuses). What I observed in our micro-climate here in Adelaide plain is that by end spring the weather warm pretty fast here so I have to sow the seeds and transplant them much earlier. I should have finished sowing the seeds by mid-April (mid-autumn). Because I was learning last year I did succession sowing until end-May which cause some to be transplanted late. Due to this the younger plants produce smaller bulbs when harvest time. Onion seedlings transplanting also should be completed by mid-June (early winter) in our garden here (space has always been an issue causing transplant delay). Now I learn one thing that long-day variety brown onion does not bolt easily in our garden (FYI, I never sow seeds indoors, all outdoors expose to the changing weather). We tried growing Cream gold onion (Eden Seeds) last year.

Cream gold onion seeds just sprouted and poking out from the soil.

I always wonder why the single allium leaf seedlings folds like that first.

Seeds coats attached.

Still very tiny look so fragile after few days transplanting seedlings in winter.

Onion do grow very slowly and makes you wonder when will the plant starts to bulb.

I presumed that this is mid-late spring because volunteer pink larkspur is blooming at the back.

Still no bulb just big leaves after 4-5months from transplanting.

Bulbs begin to develop.

Dried fallen leaves from my neighbour tree help with mulching.

The leaves shoots up straight when the bulbs develop?

No photos near harvest since the photographer was not feeling well.

Our official onion harvest is January-February (mid-late summer).

Growing onion makes you wait a long time before you can enjoy it.

For us the onion growing process starts from April and ends in February.

Although it end in February, it does take sometime to cure harvested onions for them to store well.

We don't encounter any problem growing onion here with pest or disease.

Its just the extreme warm weather at onion harvest season can be challenging.

If I water them near harvest season the papery onion skin won't be good.

If I don't water them at all , the plants will die.

Dilemma.

Any suggestion for future reference?

We did managed to harvest probably more than 70 brown onions in our small garden this year.

But not much left now, probably finish by end of this month.

Home-grown brown onion is so sweet different from the one selling in supermarkets.

Growing them took up space, but we still grow some because its different from what you get from the commercial ones.