I’ve given up watching the winter melon vines like a hawk. Although there have been several fruit flowers, none have set fruit, and all we’ve seen were these: Last weekend, I was showing my 11-year-old niece around the garden, and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Edible plants
It seems that our garden harvest consists of lots of cucurbitaceae at the moment – cucurbita plants being gourds and squashes. Our biggest producers right now are the cucumber vines. There are just two plants, but they seem to be … Continue reading
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
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