Growing Cucumber In My Garden

Sometimes, I will buy old or yellow cucumber (loh wong kwa in Cantonese) to boil soup. There was once when I bought an old cucumber for boiling soup and I threw the skin and seeds into a flower pot where I planted some Malabar Spinach stems without any intention to germinate the seeds for planting.

 After a few days, these seedlings were found growing from the discarded seeds. I have mixed feelings of whether I should uproot them or use some of it to grow.

I finally decided to choose 2 of the bigger and healthier plants to grow and see if I can get to harvest some home grown cucumbers.

 After a few weeks, the plant grew big and flowers started to appear.

 Bees were attracted to the flowers. 

 One morning while watering the plants, I was so excited to see this tiny cucumber.

 What a beautiful sight to behold!

 A few days later, I spotted another tiny cucumber.
I was actually looking forward for more of these.

 The first fruit have grown to this size.

 It is growing in width.

 Looks like the first fruit has stopped growing lengthwise.

The 2nd fruit has dried up and there was no sign of other fruit. Then I noticed that the plant was infested with pest. There were tiny black dots on the leaves and the leaves were turning yellow.

 I left the first fruit to mature.

 The skin of the cucumber has turned yellow and there were some crack lines on the skin.

Time to harvest the fruit.

 The one and only cucumber harvested from the plant which I didn't plan to plant in the first place. 

This is the size of the yellow cucumber.

I used this cucumber, pork rib, carrot, red dates and goji berries to boil soup.

Just enough for 2 people.

So you see, it isn't enough just to have faith.

You must also do good to prove that you have it.

Faith that doesn't show itself by good works is no faith at all

- it is dead and useless.

(James 2:17, The Living Bible-TLB)