Roots and Reflections Our Garden Journal 2026

 Red Guava variety from our garden it tasted yummy.

How beautifully is this weaver birds nest and so much of hardwork behind it. It flies so many times and collect needed material and build a strong and safe home before it lays it's egg.

This is kodi avarakkai (broad beans) grown in our garden we harvested more and distributed to our neighbours.

This is the 3rd vazhai thaar we kept one seepu for us and distributed to neighbours

Our home grown vazhaithandu mor kuttu

Our backyard where we kept yellow bahunia and ixora idly poo pink and curry leaves 

Below is the picture of seeds e collected from from home grown avaraikkai

Few more pics 

It took me ages to master the skill of making garland using december flowers and finally did it

🌿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.