I have been busy cooking lunch and dinner for the family and for most of the meals I have forgotten to snap photos of the dishes that I have cooked. So, no food post for the time being. Instead, I will update on my garden plants.
Okra or ladies' fingers.
Currently, I have 2 okra plants growing in the same pot.
This long okra was harvested a day late and it was not good for food, hard and fibrous.
Green brinjals / eggplants /aubergines growing in my garden.
This must be harvested before the seeds harden.
Sometimes, it can grow quite long and still is tender.
I sowed a few yellow cucumber seeds and only one is successful.
Cranberry Hibiscus blooming away.
This patch of land which I used to plant green and purple amaranth has been infested with tiny snails and they will eat up all the young leaves. I will try to plant corn instead and see if the snails will attack the corn plants.
Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.
Like sheep you wandered away from God,
but now you have returned to your Shepherd,
The Guardian of your souls who keeps you safe from all attacks.
(1 Peter 2:25, The Living Bible-TLB)
The Cranberry Hibiscus are gorgeous! And the Okra bloom looks a bit like a hibiscus.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ginny. I agree with you.
DeleteI love your garden updates! It is so nice to look at the vegetables and your Cranberry Hibiscus is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteThank you, PH.
DeleteI still have not seen okra here and have no idea how it tastes like, hence!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers, too
Here, okra is common vegetable.
DeleteLucky you! Our plants are not doing too well, lots of ants, my missus says.
ReplyDeleteOurs too but I spied out the ant nest and sprayed insecticide to destroy all the ants.
DeleteThe flowers are beautiful. It must be difficult to harvest the okra at the right time.
ReplyDeleteYes, so it is safer to harvest it earlier when it is tender than later.
DeleteThe Okra flowers are so beautiful! Julia x
ReplyDeleteThank you, Julia.
Delete...the okra flowers are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tom.
DeleteYou grow so many nice things. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Gigi.
DeleteNancy an effective method is to put salt around the plant, ashes or chopped eggshell. I kill slugs by placing beer in a shallow container, they love beer and will dive into it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Norma. I will try your method.
DeleteYou've an amazing green thumb.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday, Nancy. ♥
Thank you, Sandee. Have a wonderful day.
DeleteYou are an accomplished gardener. I had never heard of okra until I moved to Texas from New Mexico. I like it breaded and fried or pickled. Don't really care for boiled version.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Yogi. I haven't tried breaded or pickled. Fried, I have tried.
DeleteHola Nancy. Esta muy bonitas . Besos.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lola.
DeleteYou have such a green thumb! Lovely photos- especially the Okra blossom!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kathe.
DeleteI do enjoy seeing how your garden grows and hope you can get rid fo the snails.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mimi. I will wait and see if the snails are still around.
DeleteBello jardÃn . Temando un beso. https://enamoradadelasletras.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteThank you, Citu.
DeletePeople can have a treasure hunt in your garden, hunt for those fruit and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteLol! Once a friend brought her grandson I think about 5 years old. He went into our garden and started to name some of vegetables and fruits. Those that he didn't know, he asked me for the names of the vegetables and fruits.
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