Grow…

In my blogpost the other day, I mentioned that the ladies in the house have started planting vegetables and flowers while I, on the other hand, have not been all that active lately in our garden and in that post, I did share some photographs of the flowers that they planted and are blossoming.

As for the vegetables, I did say somewhere that I cleared some of the plots that used to be occupied by my Brazilian spinach, seeing how nobody seemed to want to eat it. In one of them, my girl planted some ladies’ fingers…

…and much to her delight, one started flowering and eventually, it started to bear fruit…

We did not see any more flowers after that but it does look like more ladies’ fingers…

…are on the way.

I did plant the vegetable once and it grew really well but there were so many that in the end, we got quite sick of eating it. That was why when the plants had passed their time, I did not bother to replant and other than that, I never wanted to buy any more ladies’ fingers at the market and the shops for a long while.

My girl planted brinjal…

…too but only three of the seeds she planted sprouted and seem to be growing all right. At this point in time, there is no way of telling whether we will get anything out of them or not. I did plant some once but one fine day, the pests came and all that were left were the stalks and the stems.

In the meantime, my missus’ sweet basil is growing really well, flowering…

…like nobody’s business. I must say that they are very pretty…

…very nice to look at, a lovely change from my otherwise quite flowerless garden.