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My petunia multiflora white and pink flowers

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Gardening tips of the week

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🌸Mexican bean beetle (Epilachna varivestis) is a type of lady beetle widely known as an agricultural pest. They can be found wherever the beans are planted. The most easy organic way to deter these pests is to intercrop petunias with beans. Petunia helps to deter beetles and other harmful pests from the garden.

🌸🍓Petunia also pair well with strawberries and garlic. This trio helps each other to grow well and deter pests. The petunia attracts the pollinators and increases the changes of pollination of strawberry flowers ensuring higher fruit bearing with good quality yield.

So, if you are thinking of growing strawberries. Plant some petunia seedlings and garlic with them too. And watch the difference how the quality of your strawberries harvested improves.

Happy gardening!💚😊🌾

Did you know that the immature jackfruit flowers are edible ? People of south Asia eat these raw as a sweet sour and savoury little treat during the evening.

I did make some yesterday. These were collected and soaked in warm water for some times. I chopped them into thin slices and again into thin stick like slices. And soaked them in water again to remove any latex like liquid coming from them. I drained the water and added salt, chopped green chillis, tamarind paste from fresh pods, sugar, chopped coriander, and chopped mint leaves according to taste. Then I mixed the mixture really well somewhat crushing the jackfruit flowers with hand. And voila ! Sweet and savoury jackfruit flower is ready to eat !

I know it may sound strange to some. Some may like it others may not. Adding the tamarind paste brings out all the flavours of the flower in the recipe. Raw tamarind paste is a must in this preparation. So, don't skip it.

❤Banker plant

Oxalis stricta (wood sorrel) or wood sorrel is a w**d. But, not all w**ds are bad. Every living thing has a reason to exist to help us with something we haven't discovered yet.

Tips of the day

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🌳If you have grape or tangerine or citrus fruit tree growing in your home in containers, try growing them at the base of the fruit trees. They are great at repelling pests, attract natural enemies of spider mites.
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Cover crop in my tiny vegetable patch. These are plants grown from beans I sprouted from my pantry.

I broadcast them on the vegetables patch let them grow to improve soil fertility and stop top soil erosion.They fix nitrogen in the soil making them a great companion plants to plant with nitrogen loving plants like corn, and potatoes.

⚠️ Don't plant beans with any plants in Allium family.All I can say is that they aren't just good friends!
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