The sight of bees(especially those fuzzy bumble bees), dragon fly and various other tiny insects which flit from flower to flower should fill with you joy.
Flower of what vegetable plant?
I am not sure of the exact reason but the zucchini plants are having a hard time attracting bees and even harder time taking fruit but the Delicata squash is like a magnate for bees.
baby Delicata
The zucchini plants are also in a very shady spot but the leaves are bright and green. So what gives?.
Flower of the
A couple of years ago I had 2 plants that bore so much fruit making it hard to keep up even after giving away quite a few. No such luck this time around.
Malabar Spinach - they just love the heat I hear
I harvested the Delicata squash, more like I was feeling around it when the stem gave way. It is curing on my counter top, which is what should be done to them I read.
A lot of tomatoes are ripening and that is early. Have never had ripened tomatoes before August or is my mind playing games?.
Fresh of the vine tomatoes
When you have just one snake gourd and a couple of bitter gourds, combine the two and make a stir fry. It was tasty enough I guess, everybody was fighting over it.
Stir fried Bitter Gourd and Snake Gourd
Produce from the Garden
| Date | Vegetable | Quantity | Recipe |
| July 18, 2010 | Delicata Squash | 1 | Curing |
July 20, 2010 | Swiss Chard and Mustard Greens | 5 packed cups | Greens with moong dal |
July 21, 2010 | Bitter Gourd | 2 | Bitter Gourd with whole moong dal |
July 22, 2010 | Night Shade | 2 cups/td> | Chutney |
Delicata squash, now I am going to plant that next year :-) I see bees, but they refuse to pollinate my zucchinis.
ReplyDeleteWhere do you get seeds for bitter gourd ?
Lovely garden Indo! Will try the stir fry..looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteI really do not know what to write Indo ... it is such a pleasure to see such fresh home grown greens! And to get to cook from your own harvest ... wow! I finally had the heart to cut off a few stems from my precious malabar spinach and cooked them. So satisfying! :-)
ReplyDeletelovely garden Indo. I have sowed seeds and planted small sidlings for many a vegetables this month. hope to get some good crop this year.
ReplyDeleteI guess the small yellow flower belongs to ridge gourd vine. looks very similar.
Beautiful garden, beautiful stir fry..
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool....
ReplyDeleteI bought some bittergourd this morning at the market. Will probably cook it tomorrow. Your stir fry makes me crave dal and rice and pickle. My mouth is watering.
ReplyDeleteAbout your question re: the use of turkey. I have never tried it with turkey but I am thinking that the same principles apply so yeah. RE: corned beef and potatoes post.
what wonderful garden pics, Indo! tomatoes are surely early for you.. mine are still green (cherry tomatoes are turning red; but wine ripe are not yet).
ReplyDeleteDear ISG,
ReplyDeleteI love your garden updates! I have been too crazy here to take photos of same old same old, cukes and brinjal -- what -- fussing about brinjal!!? Not me, never :)
I have had one (that's 1) single bumble bee here until this morning, when happily I noticed his cousin honey bee. So that makes 2 pollinators. No ripe tomatoes -- I do think yours are early -- lucky gal!
Sandeepa, you can get seeds at evergreenseeds.com - where I got all of my seeds this year. Seedsofindia.com is another online store.
ReplyDeleteYou are indeed correct Sayantani. They are ridgegourd. I had no idea till I saw the baby veggies.
Linda, Delicata Sqaush is the answer, those thing are like magnets for bumble bees.