Red Radishes

Aren’t they pretty? They are determined to poke out. Mummy topped up the soil yesterday but by today they surfaced again.

Cucumber is Gone AGAIN!!!

Remember I complained our thick-stemmed fast-growing cucumber, from the Paid Gardener, collapsed on us? It’s done it again. We germinated 3 more seedlings when the first lot collapsed. All went well until today when 2 of the 3 flopped over!

Look!

But don’t worry, we have lots of cucumber seeds, and Mummy says we will keep trying til we suc-seed. Get it??!!

Artistic Shots of Eggplant

I tried to follow phoodietravelogue’s example and take artistic shots of the eggplants today (white and rosa bianca). I think I need more practice. But here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

Angles are all funny. I’ll try again tomorrow if I have time. My math teacher sets a lot of weekend homework so maybe I won’t have enough time.

Golden Trumpets

We have a very pretty golden trumpet tree outside our gate. Phoodietravelogue took these photos. They are beautiful. She has the Eye.

 

Eggplant Flower

I posted about my rosa bianca eggplant here. It is busy producing flowers, and here is one that is bending over backwards to show its insides and make it easy for our bees to pollinate it!

PS we have lots of fruit on the rosa biancas and I will try to remember to take a photo tomorrow.

Millionaire Fufus

Our sunflowers’ feelings were hurt because Mummy insulted them when commenting on Novice Gardener’s post on her sunflowers. That is a very long sentence.

So they decided to prove they were not 3 inches tall by crowning, and by producing lots of buds along their stem to show their stem is not so short. It’s like The Big Sister who wears heels and hopes it makes her look long-legged and tall.

By the way, golden millionaires and fufus look the same. They both come from Thailand. They must be related.

Nuts

Novice Gardener got peanuts. We got peanuts too. A handful.

Look at the sorry sight. Anyway to improve the impression, I put some okra in the basin – see below. Now it doesn’t look so pathetic.

Red Aztec Corn

I have not been posting for a while because I somehow switched something on my camera so that photos were saved in NEF format not JPEG so it was beyond Mummy to open them. Phoodietravelogue came to the rescue and converted the photos and made them more beautiful, so I can post again!

Novice Gardener has slim red aztec corn (like her). We told her ours was very thick. I think it is as thick as my mountain bike wheel. Here it is:

The Forgotten Okra

Somehow this okra escaped my daily inspection, so look at how big it is:

Mummy says I have to give you an idea of its relative size, so I asked The Big Sister to hold it. It was bigger than her hand, so here it is, cradled in both her hands:

In case you want to know the relative size of her hands, she is a cellist and has hands and arms like a gorilla. She will kill me when she reads this, so I better say that her cello professor says that, not me.

Luffa Attempt #13

As you know, we have tried and tried to get our luffas going. They grow like a small jungle but refuse to produce flowers or fruit. Anyway the last big jungle was chopped down by SM (Scissorhands Mummy).

Grandpa kindly bought us more luffa seeds from Malaysia. They were called Ketola or Sponge Gourd. We popped them into our seed tray and whoosh! Up they came in a day. This is how they look, 4 days old: