the jade plants massacre

the jade plants massacre was successful. i have a retarded tendency to do gardening work when the sun is blazing hot...just fits into my schedule that way i guess, but i took down 6 jade plants and uprooted them as well. not as tough as i originally thought because the plants are succulents (spongy) so they were relatively easy to saw down. uprooting them was a bit tougher, but i was able to work out my aggressions so it was all good :)

first step: my radar locates ugly jade plant in the vicinity.

step 2: saw down jade plants. very meditative though i'm killing something while i'm at it :(

step 3: shake head at ugly roots. apparantly, bleached out blondes are not the only ones with a root problem.

step 4: stab it and shovel it til it hurts.

man, i'm sooooooo NOT meant for manual labor.

this jade ain't precious

there's some ugly, dead looking jade plants that line the front of my wee house. they look a lot deader now because i don't water them.

no matter what angle, they be ugly. ick. good thing they are succulent plants so i think cutting them down will be easy. uprooting them will be another issue though.

it's best that i roll up my sleeves and get cracking on this! i have 5 weeks now till the end of vaykay to cut and uproot 6 jade plants. though my garden transforms slowly, it is indeed transforming!

i have big melons

if there is some dirt somewhere in or around the house, my momma would like to plant food. yes. something that will eventually be edible to us. do all older asian folks do this? even though she doesn't live in this wee house of mine, she does come by every weekend to play with charlie and to do some gardening work.

not too long ago, she planted a few winter melon sprouts. they grew pretty quick and started tangling themselves around the apple tree and out towards the driveway. my dad used some leftover wooden planks that used to be the fence and made a trellis for it.

did you know there are male and female parts to this plant? if you don't have both, then a melon won't develop. interesting. for a while, we thought we weren't going to get anything, but the flowers were pretty. they also attracted a lot of flies though!

then voila!! my mom found a few teenie melons and boy was she excited!!! they started growing and growing and now, i have two huge winter melon effers in my yard. they are about the size of a basketball.

the first one. how cute that she stuck a round cutting board underneath it. looks like it's been put on a pedestal or something.

here's the 2nd one resting on a plank.

funny thing is that i don't even like eating winter melons. these things are usually cooked in chicken stock and made as a soup. guess who'll be eating a lot of soup :(