Planting out the young Red Aztec corn plants was a careful exercise in thought. I had to: choose a spot that gets full sunlight, clear away grass and weeds to create the planting bed, amend the soil and make sure … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2012
Ah, finally… The butternut pumpkin vine seems to have settled in to the permanent location under the mango tree. It has been promising flowers for about 3 weeks, growing buds but then aborting them. I knew that all I needed … Continue reading
I suppose to my readers who live in more rural areas that have local wildlife, this post would sound really silly, but having grown up in a country that has modernized a lot in the past half century, our local … Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine there was a time when I was desperate for a sign of flowers and pods on my bangkwang plants. That was way back when I first started growing bangkwang, or jicama. Since then, I learned to … Continue reading