It’s been raining quite a lot again, almost every day. Some days quite heavily. There was only haze on the odd occasion when it didn’t rain, but the haze wasn’t bad. Usually October is wet, so it could turn out to be a very rainy year. And quite cool.
I was away for much of the month, but what seemed to mainly grow was passion fruit vines and citrus trees.
citrus trees have grown really well with all this rain
citrus trees have grown really well with all this rain
grape vine
hibiscus. ginger poker and bougainvillea in the sun
duranta is happy
bougainvillea
rosemary – so useful in the kitchen
Basil likes the rain, too
Canna Lily flowering
Mock orange love the rain too. They have grown.
mini pumpkins
another mini-pumpkin
passion fruit grow with the rain, but with little sun don’t ripen much
Squirrels are getting almost half of the passion fruit before I can. So from this week I have been picking the heavy fruit even if very green, and putting them in a sealed plastic bag out in the sun when it shines. It does seem to be ripening them. I keep the plastic bag more or less in my sight so that squirrels don’t find a new and very easy source of passion fruit. There are mangoes on the trees in the street. Birds and squirrels should stick to these, I think.
plumbago is flowering on
mock orange flower – very fragrant. After rain they flower a lot.
passion fruit flower
It was actually sunny on Saturday, so I could dry some leaves to crush for compost
Being almost November I would expect the rain to ease off, and it to become sunnier and warmer again. We’ll see. It’s the peak of the passion fruit fruiting season and there are probably 30 fruit growing on the vines, and I have maybe 15 in plastic bags in the sun ripening. The season usually continues until around Christmas.
