Cleaning up the garden

I have been really busy at work the last couple of weeks, and haven't really worked on the garden much since Chinese New Year.

It didn't help that we went through a really dry spell. The tomato plants all wilted and died perhaps two months ago, and I haven't been composting or fertilizing the side gardens too. I finally got round to buy two bags of compost and one bag of substrate yesterday from Far East Flora in between sending and fetching Christine from Cat class. 

On the positive side, after the rains came back, the passion fruit vines upstairs and in the garden flowered and are starting to fruit. There are at least 4 fruits upstairs and a bunch more in the garden. Hopefully they will ripen well and not peter out like last round. 

Unripe passion fruit growing on the vine

Yesterday, I transferred three more passion fruit vines to the ground from the styrofoam box. This evening I used a bag of compost around them as well as the banana plant. I wasn't planning to do much, but Corrine's mum was also there doing some pruning. We ended chopping up some of the dwarf banana plants and she ripped out the wilted tomato vines and weeds. I also trimmed down the pandan plants so that the surround plants would get some more light. The area looks neater now.