My Garden 11/16/2009
 
Everyone says gardening is good (for health).  I'm not sure.  I have been involved in it for a long time, from a small plot beside my house in the past to the present average sized garden (5,400sq feet) surrounding my house.  I am more involved in cleaning, watering and trimming.  My wife does the weeding and planting.  Both of us are having body ache all over due to gardening.  My brothers-in-law, who are older than us, have no body ache as they have no garden to bend over.  I feel like giving up the greens.  But then when the flowers are in full bloom we feel our efforts are worth it.
We have lots of palm trees - the royal palm, red palm, yellow palm, silver palm and one more which I do not know the name.  They are huge but they keep the garden cool.

Fruit trees.  A garden will not be complete without any fruit trees.  Our local papaya is a favourite.  It is cheap last time but is becoming more expensive now.  We grow a few papaya trees around our garden.  These provide us with free fruits now and then.  It is easy to grow and papaya tree do not need much attention except do not grow it next to or near a tall building or tree.  It will try to be as tall.

Another local favourite is the mango.  We have three varieties - the thai, indian and local apple mango which is sour and sweet.  The other two is very sweet.  During the fruiting season, which is now nearing the end, we have basketfull of mangoes.  There are still some fruits on the trees.
We are now very excited about one fruit which we have been waiting for months to bear fruit.  We bought the young plant in March, 2009 when we were up in Cameron Highland.  It started to flower at the end of September, 2009.  Now we have the first fruit.  Take a look at our PASSION fruit!
We love passion fruit.  We enjoyed this fruit in India which tasted sweet.
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enjoying our passion fruit in India
The golden or yellow variety is more suitable for our type of tropical climate.  I had read that the other variety is the purple passion fruit which grows well in sub-tropical areas and tastes better.
 


Comments

June

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:22:21

Hopefully I'll get to try out the passion fruit when I'm back next! :-D

 



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