Nothing like seeing the morning sunlight
filtering in through the green foliage when you are having your morning cup of
tea.
This is the first time that we are trying the
Red Cabbage in our garden. They are
blooming well along with the normal cabbage.
We may have to wait another 3 months to pluck them.
We found that these Grow Bags are better than
normal conventional pots and it is cost effective too.
The Radish too are coming up well and it is
about time to pluck them for our next salad. I wonder why they are always
peeping out of the soil.
It may take another day or two for the lettuce
leaves to join the radish in the salad
Daily morning I see one or two of these
yellow flowers fully bloomed waiting for the bees. They fall off by evening.
These flowers are from the sponge gourd creeper..
The decorative flowers are managing to hold on in one corner.
Looks like the green chillies are going to be surplus this year too. Last year there was continuous growth for six months.
Looks like the green chillies are going to be surplus this year too. Last year there was continuous growth for six months.
But what has got me really excited is the
sight of these bunch of flowers that has come up on our Vanilla creeper. Its
flowered after a gap of 2 years.
Five years ago I had written in detail about
the flowering cycle and the artificial pollination that one has to do for the
Vanilla.
In a bunch, one or two flowers bloom in a day.
They have to be artificially pollinated before noon. The ideal time is 9 to 10
am (they slowly close up as the sun gets hotter) If the flowers are
successfully pollinated, they dry up but hold on to the stem. These stem (stalk)
behind the flower grow thicker and ultimately becomes the Vanilla pods. In my
attempt to pollinate, I see about 30% success this year. It requires patience
and practice.
The regular tomatoes are coming up well with
the perfect round shape, but the cherry tomatoes are a peculiar variety. Never
seen these oval shaped ones before.
The mint leaves have got its perfect green
sheen. I always put in a mint leaf along with a blade of lemon grass (cut into
small pieces) in my morning tea. Apart
from its medicinal benefits, the aroma is very pleasing.
A twig of the mint went into the decoration
of the flan that we had yesterday.
32 comments:
So darn cold here today: really cold for April. Expecting snow later this week. It wasn't too harsh of a winter overall, but it doesn't want to let go.
Beautiful garden. I love the smell of lemon so that lemon grass sounds lovely :)
Wow, beautiful garden - glad you went for veggies over flowers finally - no okra?
Green thumb too!! - Rosa
I'm lucky I got to see your vegetable garden, really amazing ..:)
I'm lucky I got to see your vegetable garden, really amazing ..:)
Wow, your garden rocks. Way cool and so many wonderful things to enjoy.
Have a fabulous day. ☺
Love this post with all the photos, one of my favorites!
The longish tomatoes look somewhat like San Marzano tomatoes or some similar variety in terms of their shape - Sindhu
That flan looks mighty scrumptious!!! Yum.
And your garden...amazing. You have a green thumb. And I too would love to sit and look out your garden window. Beautiful.
we had 80 degree temperatures for several days, now it's freezing!!! it was nice to see your garden today, i purchased a growing bag for my potatoes last year and got nothing, not one single potato ;(((((
i am still excited to start this years garden!!!!!
What an amazing garden you have. Not much is growing around here right now. Things were just starting to bloom and then we got more snow
Simply amazing... This time when I come to India in the summer...would like to come check out your garden..:-)...simply beautiful.
I am also excited as..we got grapes growing in our vine's finally after waiting for 4 years. - Zeenie
Wow your garden looks just beautiful, looks like you take wonderful care of it! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog :)
I had no idea that it was such hard work to cultivate vanilla. You shall have a bountiful harvest from your well tended garden. I'm envious on this wintery 30s day in Maine. Thanks for sharing your spring!
You are lucky to have so many lovely plants growing in your terrace. in our house everything is eaten away by the squirrels, who don't leave anything even while they are still unripe and very young. We have finally given up expecting to taste any fruits from our garden, nor do we want to grow anything more in our house. The pictures are lovely and I am so happy for you.
wow this is amazing.. i will take some tips from you when we start planting in monsoon :-) Prachi
Wow !!! So beautiful, nice home grown vegetables. Being your neighbors might get a chance to taste them also - Rama
Very nice blog! I am enjoying all the colorful pictures! Thank you for visiting my blog and for commenting. Is this your garden?
Yes BeachGypsy, this is my garden and I think I should devote more time in the garden, than sitting on the comp writing blog posts :-)
I am SO envious of your fabulous edible plants. It's my dream to grow my own food but year after year the only things that do well are (a) potatoes, which I can't STOP from growing, (b) Rosemary bush (ditto) mint (ditto) gooseberries (ditto). I've got a blackcurrant that hardly has any fruit and every year when I try tomatoes, they fail. I try to do the right things, but they always get some complaint which makes them half green and half red, and very hard, and then they rot. Depressing. I thought I was going to be successful with a cherry and plum and sprayed them against leaf curl but they still got it.
Oh dear this makes me sound pretty sad. Well, there we are. I remain envious of you!
Wow! :)
Always appreciate ppl growing their own food. - Ratna Singh
it was a real treat to see your garden and its produce! Interesting about those bags versus pots.
Wow! I'm really impressed with your beautiful, bountiful garden. Congratulations. That flan is mouth watering wonderful too.
Such beautiful plants and blooms in your garden. You certainly have a "green thumb" . I have never tried flan and yours looks delicious.
Awesome garden! Unfortunately I have anything but a green thumb....my poor plants!! I really don't know what to do to give them this sort of healthy sheen....
Very refreshing. And we have to grow our own food; such a strong message.
Beautiful photos and post. :-) Thanks.
Greetings from London.
What a lovely view with the sun and palms. So glad your red cabbage is doing well.
Thats such an adorable garden!
Lovely . It's a treat to eyes
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I am so impressed that you are growing vanilla beans! That is so cool. I'm not a gardner at all, but I recently learned about how difficult it is to grow these plants from a gardener at my local botanical gardens. I was impressed that they were growing vanilla there, but not nearly as impressed at you growing in. After all, they are part of an organization, they get paid to do it. You, apparently, have the patience of a saint! Ok, I might be exaggerating. ;) But still, I don't think I could ever do that. For one, I'd probably kill the plants before the flower bloomed. And 2, I would totally miss the pollination window! Hope you were successful this year! :)
I live in the desert of Las Vegas so I don't see a lot of green around here. The ground is usually covered in rock instead of grass. And instead of flowering bushes we have cactus or small shrubs that don't take a lot of water since we have a water shortage here. So I love seeing all your beautiful pictures.
This is such a lovely place. I could sit there for half a day just relaxing! Morning sunlight on the leaves is a wonderful sight. And, the flan looks great, too :)
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