Kitchen gardening

My Grown-up Kitchen Garden

Hello Everyone. Its been a long time since I blogged. The last time I told you about a recycled garden adjacent to my kitchen. There had been some growth (obviously!) in my plants. Let me first tell you about the tomato plants. The first 3 pics here was on shot in the third week of Jan. You can see the plant has started flowering. bright yellow flowers and tiny tomatoes growing up... The next one with strawberry-sized tomatoes, light green and hard, was shot just 10 days later. Growing really fast, indeed.

With the potatoes, I had been a little unlucky. Actually I cudn't resist myself from uprooting the two potato plants. I was anxious to see really big ones but I was expecting too much, too early. So I ended up with these cute little ones. But its okay 'coz small things are beautiful. I decided not to cook these and but just enjoy their cuteness.

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Clusters of white flowers had appeared on the coriander plants. Few corianders had also appeared but I forget to click them.





I had sprinkled mustard seeds just like that, not with the motive of actually sowing them. All of them growing together have created a mess here, you see.

Ah! I forgot the beans! But, you see, the beans appear sort of malnourished. No, they aren't diseased or something like that. What happened was that in the pot in which I had grown beans, I unknowingly dropped a corn seed probably. Aand maize plants, you know, absorb a lot of water and hence, my beans were deprived of water. So, they showed slow and stunted growth.






We got shifted to this new place, where we are presently, about 2 months ago in Febraury. Something really disappointing happened. We were waiting anxiously for the tomatoes to get ripened. We were about to pluck these but probably they were not destined to be ours. One fine morning, I wake up and what I see is all my tomatoes are gone! and I looked around to check who the thief was. and this was most surprising. On the neem tree nearby there were some monkeys. If you have watched the program 'Monkey Thieves'

Recycle Garden adjacent to your Kitchen

This is a small garden that i made with all materials which would have otherwise gone into trash. An earthern pot, in which we used to keep drinking water in the scorching summer last year, is gearing up for giving us some tasty beans. You can see two or three pods on the plant that have already appeared. There's also a cereal growing in it.

The blue plastic bucket became quite old and started fading and was also about to break and hence became unusable. But it now has some baby potatoes growing inside it.

An inverter at home, a thirsty one really. need to quench its thirst by giving it distilled water. So these green bottles are those used up distilled water bottles which i have made productive by growing fenugreek plants in one and tomatoes and coriander in the other.

It is a great satisfying experience to grow your own vegetables. You see them growing right from the time when they are tiny seeds. You take care no insect hurts them. You make sure that
they get water on item. You bring them up as if they were your own
children. it is quite exhilarating.