The Grow Project

A bouquet of fresh harvest anyone?
This turned in Brazilian spinach parathas!
These spinach is growing in my balcony in semi shade and it does do well. My balcony gets a fair bit of sun for atleast 2 hrs.
I'm trying to cram as many leafy greens as I can. We might not have place to sit anymore 😁
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Chilli was an accidental crop for me. We don't eat much chillies as a family, so I didn't want to grow them.
When I sowed my first set of seeds last year, I sowed some capsicum. I watched capsicum seeds germinate, capsicum seeds become saplings, and I transplanted 4 capsicum saplings into a bigger better pot. I fertilized capsicum. watered it.
Then the first flower came out. Kinda looks like chilli, my MiL said over video call. It's after all the same family.
And that flower turned into a you guessed it- chilli!
I accidentally sowed chilli seeds! Ah well now we eat chillies as a family.

Label those seedling pots folks. Label them!!
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Have you ever seen a flower turn into a Seed?
I was lucky to catch this stage when I went up to my terrace today.

See how my blue pea flower flower is halfway to becoming a Seed pod.
The plant has shed lots of leaves. It's almost looks bare now.
Blue pea flowers usually go to Seed if you don't pluck them off the plant. I'm waiting to see if it gives me more flowers. When it does, I will make more blue pea tea.
I'm excited about saving Seed and sharing with friends.
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it's quite cool in the mornings these days. almost don't feel like waking up.
but I did get up and here's my early morning harvest of basil and a couple of chillies
today we will be having basil parathas for breakfast 🥬☘️😍