My entry to the gardenjournal contest.

Hello my dear friends of the hivegarden community, I’m in my garden again and there are many plants that I have propagated and transplanted.

The first ones I’ll show you are these spinach plants. They are already very big and I have to move them from these pots to their final transplant location.

This plant was just given to me as a gift, it is a Pilea Depressa. It’s a plant with very small leaves and short stems, it may not exceed 10 cm in length and it’s often used in baskets to show off its hanging appearance.

It’s related to succulent plants, therefore they are not plants that require a lot of hydration in their substrate.

I was also given this Hilocereus trigonus plant which is a climbing cactus whose flowers are exotic and beautiful and after the flower dries, the fruit is produced, which is oval, with a thick and thorny shell. When ripe, it is red in color, the stem grows straight and erect.

I transplanted Turmeric and ginger and they are growing very well, their mothers are almost ready to be harvested. The turmeric plant has flowered and is about to dry its bouquet of flowers and as soon as I see the plant starting to dry its leaves I will harvest the rhizomes.

I will also harvest the ginger plant next week, although this year it has not flowered, but I already need her rhizomes, so I won't wait for her to flower.

I have these little red chili plants, kind of hard for me to propagate but I was able to do these and will be moving them to the bigger pot. Next year it will be bearing fruit again.

I planted several papaya plants but so far have not had good results. The soil where it is located does not provide adequate nutrients and the small fruits fall off the plant.

My banana plants are doing very well. In a few more days I will have the harvest of this bunch of bananas, my son and I love to eat them green. I think my friend @riverflows must know what tostones are and if she doesn't remember I’ll tell her about them.

They are slices of green banana that are passed to the oil to fry, when they change color a little, they are removed, crushed and passed back to the fryer. This is to make them crispy and their color becomes toasted. Delicious with chicken, red meat or fish, they are also delicious on their own.

I have two fig plants left that I transplanted and they are growing very fast.

This is a Euphorbia Tirucalli plant, it has no thorns and has a few tiny leaves growing on some of its many cylindrical branches, it’s a plant that grows like a shrub.

These are some cacti that I have just transplanted for sale. Haworthia Limifolia, Mammillaria prolifera, Opuntia Microdasys Mickey ears, Echeveria Pallida and Graptopétallum.

And that’s it for today my dear gardening friends in the hive garden community. Thank you for reading and for your comments.