Gardening in Bali

Shadrach

Hello everyone, I have been gardening here now for several months and had successes and failures. I am trying to do this in a coastal climate, which is not Bedagul. If their are any gardeners that have experience with this I would love to talk and learn how to be more successful. I am growing everything in pots on my balcony. The days now are getting cooking hot which is hard on the young plants. I move them out of direct sunlight after 9 in the morning. I tried using potting soil that I bought, but it would stay too wet in the bottom of the pot and I believe it was too acidic or too alkaline and my baby plants would either get root rot or stem rot. I am trying using local soil with aged cow manure now. It seems to be working better, and holding off on overwatering. Anyway I would love some advice from someone that is successful and really pulling off a abundant harvest growing near the ocean. Thanks, Dennis

PERtoDPS

Hardly what you're asking for but I had 90% success rate in the wet season, whatever I planted grew it was bizarre. Now, 3/20 or so plants survived and barely. I'll take Mark IT's advice on this one leave it to the experts, but I'll have another go next wet season. Here in the city the sun is so intense I don't go out between 8am and 4pm, which frankly sucks but better safe than sorry. As much as I was bitching about the 3 weeks of rain at the time, wishing it back now!

PERtoDPS

Thanks for the update, if you're ever passing through Sanur and down for a beer or coffee or whatever let me know. I will look in to some of those so I'm thankful you posted.

Shadrach

PERtoDPS wrote Hardly what you're asking for but I had 90% success rate in the wet season, whatever I planted grew it was bizarre. Now, 3/20 or so plants survived and barely. I'll take Mark IT's advice on this one leave it to the experts, but I'll have another go next wet season. Here in the city the sun is so intense I don't go out between 8am and 4pm, which frankly sucks but better safe than sorry. As much as I was bitching about the 3 weeks of rain at the time, wishing it back now!

You are right about growing in the wet season, except the tomatoes and chilies didn’t dig it. I understand it is hot now, but I want to try my best to learn how to grow in a tropical climate. I am trying to grow plants that can handle these conditions, such as Chinese kale,malabar spinach, moringa, chiles, terong, tomatoes, purple pak choy, purple cauliflower, red bayam, zucchini, kacang panjang. Some things will excel and some won’t. I enjoy giving it a try. I know it would be a better climate in the mountains, but I like to be a little more social, and I like living by the ocean. I don’t live in Changgu, or Ubud, Sanur, or Kuta. They have gotten too fast paced for me. If folks want to be there, more power to them. Let’s all try to get along. Peace

Shadrach

PERtoDPS wrote Thanks for the update, if you're ever passing through Sanur and down for a beer or coffee or whatever let me know. I will look in to some of those so I'm thankful you posted.

Your welcome, there actually is a lot of malabar spinach growing here, people use it for decoration on their fences and walls. It climbs and has shiny greens leaves and purple stems. If you go to Ubud at Pizza bagus, it’s growing on their fence. Most folks don’t even know it’s delicious to eat and it loves the hot climate. Look it up on the internet. You can take some cuttings and put them in a pot with good soil, get it wet and don’t put in direct sun until they have rooted. I found the purple pak choy and purple cauliflower on Tokopedia. They are coming up nicely. I bought many other varieties and they didn’t sprout. I think they are too old or got radiated by customs. My friend had the same experience. That just ain’t right. Thanks for the offer. It’s nice when someone on the forum gives positive feedback. .