Wednesday 25 January 2023

Updates From My Garden January 2023

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.


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)

32 comments:

  1. The Cranberry Hibiscus are gorgeous! And the Okra bloom looks a bit like a hibiscus.

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  2. I love your garden updates! It is so nice to look at the vegetables and your Cranberry Hibiscus is so pretty!

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  3. I still have not seen okra here and have no idea how it tastes like, hence!
    Beautiful flowers, too

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  4. Lucky you! Our plants are not doing too well, lots of ants, my missus says.

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    1. Ours too but I spied out the ant nest and sprayed insecticide to destroy all the ants.

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  5. The flowers are beautiful. It must be difficult to harvest the okra at the right time.

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    1. Yes, so it is safer to harvest it earlier when it is tender than later.

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  6. The Okra flowers are so beautiful! Julia x

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  7. ...the okra flowers are beautiful.

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  8. You grow so many nice things. Wonderful!

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  9. Nancy 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.

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  10. You've an amazing green thumb.

    Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday, Nancy. ♥

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  11. You 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.

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    1. Thank you, Yogi. I haven't tried breaded or pickled. Fried, I have tried.

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  12. Hola Nancy. Esta muy bonitas . Besos.

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  13. You have such a green thumb! Lovely photos- especially the Okra blossom!

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  14. I do enjoy seeing how your garden grows and hope you can get rid fo the snails.

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    1. Thank you, Mimi. I will wait and see if the snails are still around.

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  15. Bello jardín . Temando un beso. https://enamoradadelasletras.blogspot.com/

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  16. People can have a treasure hunt in your garden, hunt for those fruit and vegetables.

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    1. Lol! 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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