It’s rained often on consecutive days, and then not rained also for several days – but overall it’s quite cool and there hasn’t been so much sun. The plants mostly soldier on.
At the moment what we can eat from the garden are the ginger poker sprouts – nice in salads or desserts; rosemary, basil, passion fruit, limes, mini eggplants, aloe vera, roselle… and I’m hoping for papaya reasonably soon, and lemons sometime. Pandan is growing well here and there, so we’ll be able to do something with that, too.
back garden
papaya growing
tree getting taller
citrus in the sun growing fast
a small papaya has come up – a lot of competition so it is growing slowly
the grape vine survives
the white Bougainvillea is particularly happy
basil
Canna Lily having a bit of a rest
after repotting the citrus is growing a lot on the previously bare lower branches
I left the limes a bit too long on the tree – they are yellow
It’s supposed to be hot, but instead cool and wet – so we have flowers and many unripe fruit
passion fruit flower
I have to pick them green or the squirrels get them
some limes I picked
birdie breakfast
birdie breakfast
birdie breakfast in the compost
birdie breakfast in the compost
birdie breakfast in the compost
the bird comes every day for the open compost container
papaya earlier in the month
papaya in a pot – it won’t fruit, but it’s decoration
plumbago battle on
ginger poker propagation
one of the many ginger poker around our place
duranta
hibiscus
rosemary – after a battle with bugs
we eat the sprouts in salads
and we eat the little eggplants from this plant
the citrus in the sun grow quickly
papaya
the pumpkin vine is growing fast – often where I don’t want it to grow
the bird often leaves leftovers lying around after it’s eaten
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