Pak Choy stage by stage.

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I intend to  post regularly on pak choy , once a week . It is good as a record for me, and something others can learn as well. It is not the first time that we grow pak choy here. The first attempt a few years back was as always, full of anxiety, but the harvest was excellent. Container gardening is most suitable for a small family like mine. I did try putting them in vegetable bed once or twice, but the hide and seek game with pests was a little too much to handle.

There are two containers used. The first is a shallow type and the second is deeper one.  I don't think depth matters too much with leafy vegetables. Pak Choy has fibrous roots that won't penetrate deep. The seedlings are a week old.  It is a lot easier to transplant seedlings when they are little babies with first pair leaves. Once they develop more leaves, more roots will develop. That will make it difficult to handle at transplanting.

Just for the fun of it, I did give a little bit of protection to the second second container. The red fabric is a rescue from onion sack we bought last year. It is quite unusual since most would use the black fabric. I don't suppose using red, will encourage pak choy to turn its leaves to red!.. It covers the container just for a while until the plants get stronger to face the blazing sunlight.

PAK CHOY STAGE 1