I can’t believe it’s been more than a year since the Weed family gave us a banana sucker to plant. “This is a miniature banana plant,” I was told. That put visions of a cute little 4 to 5 foot high banana … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Well, it doesn’t look like the red flat beans are ready to set fruit yet – or whether they can or will. All the flowers that bloomed in the two bunches of flower buds failed to set fruit so far. … Continue reading
Finally! I’ve been watching the red flat bean plants for more developments and finally spotted flower buds this week. There were a couple of bunches of them – tiny things, as opposed to long beans and winged beans. I expected … Continue reading
I was wrong about one of our bittergourd plants, and I underestimated the tenacity of plants in general. When growing conditions are poor, they do their best to just survive long enough to reproduce. However, when the situation improves, they … Continue reading