Produce

It's the weekend. The solitary reaper in me set to work. Rewarding work. So the greens (to include both the spinach and the Swiss chard), continue to mesmerise. I have partaken leaves from both the rafts at least seven times already. Almost every week or so. And there they are, bountifully willing to give more. Here...

Ah! and along with the leaves came along a friendly grasshopper. He seemed to be at home inside the house...though possibly slightly dazed, as to why he was no longer under his mouth-watering camouflage.

And then the tomatoes. Both Suhyana and Cherry. Words would fail me, if I tried to describe how I felt as I plucked the first lot ever. Incidentally, I didn't even know how to pick the blood-red beauties, until videojug.com's film on how to harvest tomatoes taught me. So it was with immense tenderness that I began plucking the fruit, careful that I left the calyx intact. The calyx is the flower shaped green leaf on top of the fruit, which when left to be with the fruit continues to help it in ripening at the correct rate. Here then...

And lastly, the cucumber has actually flowered. And what I learnt (thanks Google, for the zillionth time!!!), was that it was only the female flowers that had the little cucumber beneath them. The best thing is, the majority of flowers (or flowers to be) I see on the plant, all have a little promise of a fruit beneath.

See you all next week.