Home Grown Purple Corn & Millipedes

It was sometime end of last year, I went to the plant nursery to buy garden soil for a friend and at the same time to pick up a few sachets of edible seeds. Among them was a sachet of purple corn seeds. I couldn't remember the price of the sachet of purple corn seeds and when I germinated the seeds. There were only 5 to 6 seeds inside the sachet. Out of these only 2 seedlings made it.

This was taken on the 4th January, 2021. I placed both seedlings in 1 big pot.

This photo was taken 21 days later (from the 1st photo), There were 3 ears of corn. As you can see, even the silk is purple in colour.

I waited till the silk turned dark, almost black before I harvested the first ear of corn.

It is not big and rounded, so I didn't expected much from this ear of corn.

I peeled off the husks to reveal the corn on cob.

This is the 2nd time I planted purple corn and this is deep purple corn. The 1st time I planted purple corn, it was not fully purple. It was a mixture of light purple with different shades of beige and yellow. If you are interested, you can click here to read the post.

It is not fully formed, with some parts without any corn kernel on the cob. Since I only have this single corn on cob, I ate it raw as it is and it is sweet and juicy.

Purple corn silk and streaks of purple on the husks.

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My sister-in-law (hubby's sister) wanted to buy Tambun pomelo and have the pomelo sent by courier to her house.

Hubby got in touch with his contact and here we were collecting the pomelos. At that time, these men were unloading freshly plucked pomelo from the lorry (truck). The pomelos were weighed, labelled, wiped clean, and placed into different baskets.

Since we were there, I bought 2 pomelos for my sister and also 2 for myself. Hubby and I love to eat pomelos.

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The following photos and video were sent to me by a friend. She took these photos and video on one of her morning walks.

Photo credited to Shirley T.

2 types of millipedes.

Photo credited to Shirley T.

I have a lot of the black millipedes in my garden.

Photo credited to Shirley T.

I don't know whether the black millipede was attacking the red millipede or inter-mating.

Video credited to Shirley T.

Thank you, Shirley for your contribution.

Linking to Saturday's Critters and Garden Affair.

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us,

let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

the one who exhorts, in his exhortation;

the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal;

the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

(Romans 12:6-8, English Standard Version-ESV)