It was my hope to gloat much sooner about growing the green snake gourd, but the fruits have been aborting one after the other. I initially thought that the green stink bugs had moved from sap-sucking the beans to the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Edible plants
Doth my eyes deceiveth me? Are those pumpkin flower buds I see on the generic pumpkin plant? Or are they new stems growing? These were just spotted on the plant that is, what, two weeks old right now? It’s barely … Continue reading
It’s been about a month since we harvested our first winter melon fruit, and the poor fruit had to bear the indignity of being a conversation piece ever since. I wasn’t too concerned as I’d heard somewhere that melons and … Continue reading
More than two years ago, I planted a stretch of culinary ginger plants that I had expected to grow and thrive. Little did I realize that my expectations would be dashed. For some reason, our dogs began to run through … Continue reading