11.23am 25th june 2010 11.41am 9th sept 2010
i grew that all by my little self. i’m quite proud actually. never realised i had a green thumb. husband says it’s all the talking i do to them every morning. it’s break time for him then. i’ve managed to grow red and green chillies. don’t get that many. maybe 15-20 a season. i think she’s gone through 3 seasons. not that spicy, but definately organic!
i also have an over powering kadi patta (curry leaves) plant. that’s been off my shopping list for a year now. every morning i snip off a long stalk of lemon grass for our tea. it’s brilliant. it was growing wild in our home in goa. when we were packing to come back to bombay, i had to take a bunch and try my luck. that was in july 2009. it’s been growing strong since then. jax, our cat is crazy about it.
obviously, there’s aloe vera in my balcony. ajwain (bishop’s weed), grows really fast. it has a very strong flavour. i tend to chop up a few leaves and throw it in a salad or mix it in roti. not too much though.
i keep dropping random seeds into the pots. much to my suprise, one morning i woke up to an avacado sapling. it’s doing very well. this habit of mine has also sprouted trees. one sitaphal (custard apple), 2 jamun (Jambu Fruit) and a supari (betelnut) tree. all are still in pots. they will eventually be put in the garden of our new home, which we move into at the end of the month.
hopefully in the next few years i’ll be plucking fruits off them. a bit of wishful thinking…
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Impressive. I’m jealous. The ex and I (well mostly the ex) managed to grow jalepeno peppers from some seeds in a matchbook that some marketing guy on the street gave me. they grew really really well – but the ex likes to butcher all the leaves off the plants (calls it ‘pruning’) and then just chucked them out!
i hate pruning. but apparently it’s good for the plants. like if you go for a trim every few months, your hair grows better. the husband keeps pestering me to prune. he considers himself a natural gardener…who does no gardening. in the picture it’s all wild. he did make me do some clipping a few weeks later. and took away two of my trees to plant in the garden downstairs. a month or so longer and they could have been planted in the garden of our new home. how i wept. i hate the hair trim thing as well.
i am a natural gardener! and ur magical hand will grow many more trees my love.
i know you are, but i had to poke a little….love love to life and to the many dew drops collected on the trees we’ll grow together.