Another harvest, yay! Even though I only have a mini garden in my rented house, I'm grateful that I can still harvest. Sometimes it's just a little. But more often, the harvest is so abundant that I have to share it with my neighbors.
I opened the door, walking to mini garden before sunrise. Then, I enjoy the sunrise while talking to my plants. This encourages them to thrive and resist disease.
Before harvesting, I enjoy the beauty of my garden. Several flowers are blooming beautifully.
There's a purple rose that has adapted to be more fragrant. Because my area is very hot, the petals of this rose didn't initially release their fragrance. But after several flowering phases, the petals have finally become more fragrant and have a more beautiful petal shape than before.
There's also a new flower collection in my garden: a bright red hibiscus. This type of hibiscus blooms in a mound. It looks fluffy!
Baby Cabbages
First, I'll take you to harvest cabbage shoots/baby cabbages. I harvested one cabbage plant earlier. This cabbage plant has produced new shoots, also known as baby cabbages.
Local farmers here call them baby cabbages, and they're usually sold in the markets. So, after harvesting the cabbage, I don't pull the plants out; I let them produce new shoots, which can eventually be harvested as baby cabbages.
I also let some of the cabbage plants grow so I can harvest the pups to grow the cabbage plants I'm growing. This way, I don't have to grow cabbage from seed.
One cabbage plant actually produces many baby cabbages to harvest. I can already imagine how delicious these baby cabbages will be when sautéed with coconut oil. Hmm, yummy!
Green Beans
After harvesting the young cabbage, I'll take you to harvest green beans with me. Well, this is actually the first time I've ever harvested this type of bush bean. These green beans look perfectly grown. In fact, these green beans are growing well without any pests at all.
I intercropped the green beans with bitter melon. Meanwhile, the bitter melon fruit I pollinated was already growing, but it wasn't ready to be harvested yet.
These green beans were ready to be harvested before the bitter melon. I was quite surprised. I thought the green beans would be few in number. It turned out they actually produced a lot of green beans.
For me, this small plot of land could be used to grow some vegetables, rather than just letting it become a place for inedible weeds.
Yep, I got a quarter of a kilogram of green beans today. Wow, I'm so happy.
Curly green chilies
After the green bean harvest, I also harvested curly green chilies. Curly green chilies aren't as spicy as red green chilies, but I love the flavor of curly green chilies.
I planted a lot of curly chili plants in grow bags at once so I could have a daily supply for cooking.
These curly chili plants are actually quite productive, although they didn't perform particularly well due to the continuous rain during their generative phase.
Local Basil
At the end of the harvest, I also harvested local basil. I plan to make stir-fried green beans with spicy curly green chilies, also with basil. I'll share the recipe in my next blog post.
See you again in my next gardening activity. I hope you have a great day. Don't forget to make time for gardening if you have a little space to plant.
Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari
Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.
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