Hujung Minggu

LAWATAN KE MAHA 2008

Kami ke MAHA di Serdang hari Sabtu lepas, hari terakhir! Cuma ke beberapa gerai sahaja. Tak lepas peluang ke tapak pameran Laman Sayur. Seronok betul! Macam2 cara penanaman ditunjukkan. Kemudian ke Petunjukan Rhodeo. Too bad, my daughter didn't enjoy it. Tak suka agaknya. Anyway, a new thing at MAHA. The cowboys from Down Under. Lepas tu tengok cara membela kambing dan bebiri terkini. Pertanian adalah perniagaan, the catch word nowadays. Ramai juga peminat ternakan termasuklah suami sendiri! Sempat membeli 'Baja Tinja Lembu' dr Trengganu! 2 paket RM10, kira lelong ah tu.... Sebelum balik, kami membeli beberapa benih anak pokok seperti selasih dan pudina (anak kata daun ubat gigi).

YES! LEBUHRAYA LEKAS SUDAH DIBUKA


Dalam perjalanan balik dari MAHA, kami menggunakan LEKAS. Khabarnya dibuka pada umum pada Jumaat, 22/08/08. Tol belum ada lagi, bulan Okt kot. Apa lagi, bolehle guna.... Distance wise ie nak ke Kajang, jaraknya lebih kurang sama kalau guna PLUS, tapi masa lebih singkat rasenya. Ptg ni nak buat survey lagi sebelum ada tol. Tol PLUS, Nilai-Bangi RM2.20, Putra-Mahkota-Bangi RM1.40 (about 30km to my destination).

NB: Oct 2008: The toll rate from Pajam to Kajang Selatan is RM2.80

The Beginning of a New Life

A nice surprise awaited in the laman this morning. Two white eggs were found nicely tucked in one of the palm trees! My first instict was, these would better be the bird's eggs or else.... Took a picture of the eggs since it would be interesting for my youngest to see them. And this afternoon, it was confirmed! Saw the mama bird came visiting and hatching them. It looked like a tekukur though I'm not 100% sure. Will have my watchful eyes on the nest for the next couple of days. Thank you Allah for giving this beginning of a new life for me and family to see.

A for Ati-Ati (coleus)

So this is #4, ati-ati or coleus. It's red in colour though ati2 (also known locally as nilam, bangun-bangun) is known to be in many other colours which makes it a beautiful plant for the laman.
Been wanting to have it before and settled for this since the price offerred at the nursery in Nilai 3 was rather cheap, RM2 per polybag. So bought just one!
I found it rather easy to plant and had it propagated to a few more new plants. Will find time to propagate more. Just see the pic and you know what I mean.
Read about ati-ati that can be used as a cough deterrent.

Ati-ati is also said to have other medicinal values. However, due to the many varieties of ati-ati ie the different colours; different plants may have different medicinal values or are they the same?

B is for Bucida (Cat. #3)

I'm trying to catalogue the plant species in our laman. No formal knowledge though but will try to find out. Ok, so this will be the third (since the first was the ulam raja and second, pokok mengkudu).

Cat.3 -- Bucida (molinetti or buceras??? Anyone knows)


The pic on the left is the verigaeted species. When first planted it only had one layer but over 10 months, two more layers have grown. However, the same can't be said about the others (altogether there are 8 of this kind)! This Bucida is right at the front lawn, on your right hand side of the driveway (when driving in). How am i to make others grow into layers?



The pic on the right shows 4 Bucida plants. When planted they were already 3 layered (but haven't grown much since). Any ideas on how to make them grow faster?
Have seen this plant planted by the road side in Bandar Baru Bangi, near Billion and also at the Mahallah Ruqayyah at International Islamic Univ, Gombak.