Bananas & Cauliflower In My Garden

In an earlier post, I mentioned how my potted banana tree has started to bear fruit. That was about a month ago.

I wanted to plant a banana tree for the leaves for cooking purposes. As the tree grows taller, the leaves were beyond my reach and I was thinking of cutting down the tree. Before I could actually cut it down, I noticed it has started to bear fruit. What a pleasant surprise and I was overjoyed.

Here you can see the small green bananas.

It actually has 3 combs of bananas on the stalk.

There is one big comb and 2 smaller combs of bananas.

Every morning I check on the bananas. I don't know how long they will take to ripen.

Every banana tree will bear fruit only once.

Before these bananas ripen, the mother plant has already sent forth 2 small shoots coming out from the soil. I will be getting 2 new banana plants to replace this one.

A cauliflower seedling in a pot in my garden.

Cauliflower plant growing in another pot.

I am eagerly looking forward to see sign of a cauliflower.

My home grown cauliflower, harvested a few months earlier.

It is very encouraging to see the plants growing well and getting to harvest my garden's produce.

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Even in old age they will still produce fruit

and be vital and green.

(Psalm 92:14, The Living Bible-TLB)

My Potted Banana Tree Is Fruiting!

This was last Friday. The day started with a gloomy gray sky.

Morning sky at 7:25am

Hubby went to buy fried noodle while I stopped at a new stall to buy 2 curry puffs for RM1.

I was watching a cooking video and it has to do with olive vegetable. I was curious, so I bought 1 bottle to try. I took out a bit to eat with my oat porridge (above). I still prefer the crunchy texture of the pickled lettuce.

I had a pleasant surprise that morning when I was watering my plants in the garden. I looked up the banana tree and saw that it has budded. Sometime last year, a friend gave me a baby banana plant because I want to plant one in a pot just for its leaves.

A few months later, I changed my mind and thought of cutting it down but kept putting it off.

It looks like a type of banana (pisang awak) that is only good for cooking or frying and not nice to eat fresh when ripen.

I am curious to see how the bananas will turn out and decide whether I still want to cut it down.

I have been watching the progress of the formation of the bananas.

So far, I can see 3 small combs of bananas.

For these, I am thankful.

For dinner, we had leftover food from the previous day's dinner. In addition to the stuffed items, I also make fried dumplings (sui kao) with the extra filling. It was a no rice dinner because we wanted to finish all the leftovers.

This Good News tells us that God makes us ready

for heaven - makes us right in God's sight - when we put

our faith and trust in Christ to save us.

This is accomplished from start to finish by faith.

As the Scripture says it,

"The man who finds life will find it through trusting God."

(Romans 1:17, The Living Bible-TLB)

Thursday's Mish Mash

This was Monday morning after we have finished our morning walk and our breakfast at our regular coffee shop. 

Morning sky at 7:35 am.

I took some snapshots of these hibiscus growing by the roadside on our walk home.

This is also our country's national flower.

This baby banana plant given to me by a friend is growing nicely in a big pot. It is grown more for the leaves to be used in cooking. Hopefully, it will also bear fruits.

Chives flower buds.

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Lunch & Dinner

I boiled ABC soup with pork (the "armpit" part that "never see the sky") ABC soup is rich in vitamins A, B, C, and the ingredients used is usually carrot, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and etc, with some crushed white peppercorns.

Since we had an early and light breakfast, we had steamed rice and ABC soup for lunch with spicy chilly oil as condiment.

The remaining soup was re-heated and we each had a bowl of soup for dinner. There was enough meat and ingredients from the soup to fill our tummy without having to take rice or noodle.

After my son left to go back to work early Sunday morning after spending the weekend with us, it was time to wash the quilt, bed sheet, and etc. This is where I hang out my washing in the garden for quick drying.

Surprisingly, I don't seem to have the time to sew quilts after I retired. 

Linking to Good Fences.

You are free from the law,

but that doesn't mean you are free to do wrong.

Live as those who are free to do only God's will at all times.

(1 Peter 2:16, The Living Bible-TLB)