Showing posts with label Blueberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blueberry. Show all posts

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Blueberries, corn, eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes...

Oooh hooo... the temperatures these days...
The highs oscilate between 35 and 36 degrees....
Scorching.... burning.... brutal...
Each day during the weekends when I do the garden, I need to change my garden clothes three to four times, alternating between two sets of clothes...
Had planted three blueberry seedlings some years ago...
This year, they are fruiting quite substantially...
Each day, we get to harvest a little bit of the fruits...
We take them with our yogurt for breakfast...
Corn is really doing well, despite being attacked by pests...
We love the taste of home-grown corn so much that we decided to buy more seeds...
They are now beginning to germinate and we hope to see some harvest in October....
Planted only one eggplant this season...
They are heavy feeders and they need quite a bit of water....
Next season, I shall add one more seedling as my sweeto haato is beginning to like eggplants...
As with the eggplant, I have only one zucchini plant....
It is just sufficient for the two of us...
Tomatoes are a regular member at our potager...
We can't get enough of them...
My missus sometimes cooks some lovely Ratatouille with the tomatoes, zucchini, and eggplant together with some other ingredients...

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Berries... blue, goose, and kiwi...


Blueberries are lovely, ain't it?
Planted three plants some years ago...
Didn't grow that well, so I moved them to a sunny location...
And mulched them with pine leaves...
Seems like they are comfortable with the new site...
Am looking forward to plucking them... 


Gooseberries... could not resist grabbing one...
It is a pretty shrub, a bit thorny though...
But... but... the fruits are really nothing to shout about...
I'd say they resemble a bit like grapes...
only that they are inferior in taste...
When ripe, the seeds protrude out, breaking the skin...
Not a very good investment...
Still, a joy to have it in the potager...


Could not resist grabbing the kiwi berry as well...
Two plants, in fact...
It is a climber, so I grew them near the fence...
A long bean plant nearby killed one of them...
The surviving one is doing well...
And the fruits are quite cute...
Still tiny, about one centimeter in size...
Apparently, they taste great...