The sweet smell of autumn...

Ah, the days appear to be cooling off...

The autumn smell is, but in the air...

From the potager, ladies fingers...

Long, slender, beautiful...

Alongside... dried, over-ripe corn kernels that escaped the harvester's eye...

Thin, somewhat 'undernourished' kangkong greens...

Yet, delicious when stir fried with black beans and garlic...

Same goes with the zucchinis...

Merely finger-sized, when harvested... 

Beyond that, they shrunk and turned bad...

'The Pride of India' stands tall in this season...

Blooms so pink, radiant even in the rains... 

And to Diana, this post is dedicated to...

Many, many thanks for the seeds...

of zinnia, sunflower, basil, hollyhock...

and of luffa, amaranth, capsicum, carnation... 

Empty heart vegetables, potatoes, loquats

Bought some vegetable seeds from Bangkok last March.
Here is one result of that effort.
'Kangkung' in Malaysian, or 'kuu shin sai' in Japanese (literally, 'empty heart vegetable').
Taste great stir-fried with garlic and anchovies...



Planted one kilogram of seed potatoes early last spring.
Managed to harvest about 6 kilos of it.
Not too bad for a first attempt.
Love it with chicken curry, or as a salad with other vegetables.



Harvested quite a heap of Japanese loquats again this year.
Must say that this fruit is fast becoming one of my favorites, along with figs and persimmon.
And the seeds apparently have high B17(?) content which is supposedly a good anti-cancer element...