This is the pumpkin now after I helped it to be pollinated (notice I have also long beans in the same trellis). Two weeks after I hand-pollinated the female pumpkin flower, it has grown and almost ready to be picked. That’s one of the things that keep me going when it comes to gardening. Patience…
I wonder if anybody remembers I posted a cat in the garden about two months ago. Cats are uninvited guests but they seemed to be comfortable in my garden. I was surprised when I saw little kittens one day. She had three cute little kittens and I was only able to capture this one. I…
I just wanted to show how the female pumpkin flower would look like. I had males flower last time I posted and now I am seeing more than one female flowers. I tried to hand pollinate one of the female flower and see how it will react. The flower closed already and now I’m waiting…
Bok Choy or Pechay is one of the earliest vegetable that I have encountered in the garden as a high school student. We were taught how to plant vegetables back then and the easiest to grow was the bok choy or pechay. I like to plant bok choy in my garden here but space is…
It’s about a month when I published the picture of the pumpkin seedlings and after I planted them on the ground it started flowering. I noticed only male flowers so far. You will notice a female flower if it has a small pumpkin underneath the flower. It should not be long and I’m going to…
I have a sayote plant that volunteered to grow in my garden. Since it’s a volunteer, it’s not placed in a proper spot where I can place a trellis. So I just let it be and just put a couple of wire fence for it to trail up to the fence of the garden. Three…