herb seeds / seedlings

[bad_azz]

a quick note tho... too much sun and too much water makes the fruit ripen too quickly and then the skin splits... try to keep the soil moist but not soaked through...
Aim for balance... xx

[Shinta]

Shinta, just to say, I have read your post, can I get back to you about it all in a month or so, I am full on with other things just now and we hope to be moving into our new home at the end of May, (rolls eyes- new house still a building site and money vanishing fast hahaha, steel, cement and ceramics in large quantities eat jutas faster than I eat tomatoes...)
Anyway- my garden here in the rental home has been ridiculously neglected and what has not been neglected has been munched by 2 delinquent pups xxx who are also being somewhat neglected. Bad mommy B_a!
*They won't be when they get to their new home tho' they will be getting loads of walks and playing ball...

Not problem bad-azz!!! take your time and good luck with the movement!!! only I hope to keep this topic alive because I have just started to try to grown up some herbs and I am really looking forward to grow up more things even in pots!!!!

Two weeks ago I went to an exhibitions of trees and plants and I saw a rack made from bambu and pam (sorry I don´t know how to write it), full of beautiful and big parsley, kankung dan sayur hijau yang pendek, I don´t remember now the name, I love the idea and I want to make one!!!!!

something like this but from bambu

http://books.google.co.id/books?id=l...0sayur&f=false

Have a beautiful week!!!

[nsenada]

a quick note tho... too much sun and too much water makes the fruit ripen too quickly and then the skin splits... try to keep the soil moist but not soaked through...
Aim for balance... xx

Ok, now I know why my tomato didn't do good :-( And yes, keep this thread alive!

[rosaliecheese]

Hi,

I bought some basil from this organic farm in Bandung check their website http://www.famorganic.com/

[mrcibubur]

Are we saying that seedlings brought in from Uk for herbs and/or flowers do not grow well here? Is there a problem with the compost/soil being compatible for the seedlings or is it quite simply that it is too hot to plant openly outdoors due to the excessive heat or rain? If your Indonesian home like mine, I do not have any window ledges like in the Uk and I have found it difficult to find suitable places to put the nursery seedlings to avoid too much heat sun or rain.

[bad_azz]

Some of the plants are not resilient to some of the diseases and pests here either, mrcibubur.
I guess a small seedling frame/shelter made from bamboo with a plastic roof would work- and cover with tarpaulin in the midday sun... say , maybe 1.5 metres hi x 2 metres wide x 1 metre deep
With a shelf in the centre - this should give lots of room for a wide variety of seedlings to get started.
It should be cheap enough and simple to construct... don't pay ACE hardware prices for the tarpaulin though... ask for "terpal" in the local toko besi (hardware store/ironmongers) I think a 2mx3m sheet cost me 30,000IR.