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Soil-based, nutrition-focused, climate-specific questions and answers for the tropical urban food gardener.

THE B TO Z OF PLANT NUTRITION: BORON

Have you seen these funky cavities in brocolli and carrots? When I first noticed such hollow stems, I was surprised to learn that they were not the work of an artistic worm, but signs of a deficiency in a mineral called boron.

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Advanced Plant Nutrition

Diglings Lush Set provides cutting-edge and complete liquid nutrition to all plants, aid plants to recover from environmental stresses, and promote earthworms and beneficial soil microbes.

Diglings Blossom Buddy provides highly-available liquid potassium for the critical flowering and fruiting stage.

Diglings Cold-pressed Neem Oil provides high-grade, effective organic control of insect predators and fungal diseases.

Diglings Light Potting Mix is lightweight, well-draining and compost-rich. 


Diglings Lush Starter Kit @ RM99 per set contains:

  • 1 starter Lush Set (Lush One 200 ml & Lush Too 200 ml)
  • 2 grow pouches (M size)
  • 2 Diglings Light Potting Mix (15L)
  • 2 seed packets (sharp green bayam and red bayam)

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THE CURIOUS PHENOMENON OF WEEPING LEAVES GROW YOUR NUTRITION: BORON RITUALS OF HOPE Burst fruits and rotted roots after the weekend’s great deluge. In contrast, cool-loving salad bar under the rain shelter is thriving. Salad leaves are keepers in the cooler, darker months if they can be sheltered from torrential rain. All the split tomatoes won’t be wasted - they are the ones to collect seeds from. Ripening sweet peppers turning from green to orange. My first orange sweet pepper. Love at first sight. Dainty, pretty flowers of the coriander (cilantro). At this stage, when the leaves become small and bitter and inedible, we feast with our eyes until the flowers turn to seeds. Lolla lettuce Trying to grow more flowers amidst the edibles to add more colour and beauty to my garden. Hydrangea is unique among plants in its ability to indicate soil acidity. In fact, its range of colours from blue to pink is similar to that of the litmus paper!