Passion Fruits

The leaves of passion fruits are very green and lively. There are two vines here. Two different species. I grew from seeds. They are starting to flower after a year.

A passion fruit flower bud.

The flowers bloom mid-day. After noon.  

The flowers are many, but only two fruits are formed. Probably there were no bees and the days have been quite still. No wind. Once when there were many flowers, it started to rain, didn't give any chance for the pollen to reach pistil, I think.

The flowers are beautiful.

 They drop the next day if no fruit is formed.

Lots of pollen on the stamen.

 I decided to do self pollination. 

Plenty of pollen.

Hello! Baby coming out from womb! :-)

How nice to see shiny skin passion fruit!

Tomato Plant

I decided to grow cherry tomato, and here is my tomato plant. I don't put much effort. Just plotted with two seeds, and kept the stronger seedling. The fruits are plenty. They are so heavy until they pull the stem down and some tomatoes are touching the ground.

The fruits have started to get ripe. The weather has been very hot. I water twice a day, and perhaps the soil was not wet enough, the tomato skin is quite thick. They don't taste very good, but I just eat them raw.

Planting Ladies Fingers/Okra at my backyard

I have recently grown Ladies' Fingers on two pots at my backyard.  It is really easy. Just get a pot, some good soil, and good seeds, sunlight and water

With two plants, I get to harvest everyday, just after one month of growing from seeds.

Sometimes I harvest one, sometimes two, and yesterday three. They can grow long very fast. During the day time, they can grow about one inch!

Because Ladies' Fingers grow very fast, when it is about 5 inches long, just harvest it, or else it will get old, and the fibre becomes too hard to bite on.

Last week I steamed stuffed Ladies' Fingers with minced meat, made some gravy to go with it. 

A few days later, I cooked curried chicken rice with Ladies' Fingers.

Today, I shall steam Ladies' Fingers tops with oyster sauce and fried scallot.