Sunday, November 2, 2025

🌿Roots and Reflections - Our Garden journal 2025

We started our Garden February 2024 on my Elder son's Birthday. Below is a picture after 6 months.



Later it looked like below and we added a banana plant given by our neighbour.




This Jan 2025 👇



Flowers and vegetables from our garden




Lady's finger, cluster beans,bitterguard, cucumber 

Red Rose

Orange colour hibiscus 

Flowers from our garden 

pink bahunia first bloom 

Flowers from our Garden 

Birds nest on our Pavazhamalli Tree


Our First "vazhai thar" on July 10 2025

We enjoyed banana flower harvest, it was very tasty and so fresh....Our second one gave vazhai thar on Sep 26th 2025. We yet to harvest bananas of both. Below is the collage of our home made recipe of Vazhaipoo vada and dhal kootu. Usually the banana flower florets, we get from shop colour will change if we don't put in water(buttermilk) but our Garden yield banana flower florets remained fresh for hours.




Our Garden visitor 👇



As it is rainy season now we recently cleaned up our Garden weeds and trimmed bahunia and Pavazhamalli branches.