I rode my bike to see fields of vegetables growing under the sunshine before the arrival of the rainy season.
Potatoes have violet flowers. This supported Inca civilization and has a great contribution to people in the northern Europe. A infection caused Potato famine in Ireland. It can be said that our prosperity has been gained after the battles with awful infections.
Lines of long green onions are beautiful. Its stalk is covered with soil to keep it white because eastern people in this country like white one while western like blue. This vegetable is indispensable for Japanese cooking. I enjoy Soba or buckwheat noodles with sliced fresh onion.
Taros are popular not in the South East Asia but also in Japan. This was planted more than 3000 years ago in the New Stone Age in this country. I love taros boiled with soy sauce and bonito flakes.
Egg plants are growing well. I love 醬爆茄子 or egg plants fried with Chinese sweet bean sauce. You might want to try it.
The blue color of a hydrangea becomes blighter.
I don't know the name of this tree with big white cross flowers. Do cuckoos know this one?
Have you seen leaves of sweet potatoes? For a long time I just have seen its roots in a supermarket, never imagined how they grew.
Snap garden peas are easy to grow for beginners like me.
Those plants do look healthy.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your photos.
Take care.
Very enjoyable to see everything growing. Great photos! Thank you for visiting my blog. I have had fun seeing yours.
ReplyDeleteDearest RTC,
ReplyDeleteLucky you for biking in such a lovely area.
Love the light green color of sweet potatoes.
Those green onions are cultivated in such an artful way; love the white rings as well.
Healthy potatoes and all crops and your garden peas look excellent too; ready for consuming them.
Don't have time for biking yet... still working on the manual, proofreading together with my husband the final chapter (also the biggest one of 41 pages, about pests and diseases in the mushroom business. A lot of work with so many characters, used in mycology and also for measurements, science and physics. Not easy to type but I'm proud that I've managed. That way, can leave behind all his knowledge and experience as there is none complete book about the biology and all the detailed steps in mushroom growing. Glad for being able to work on its compilation and added my area of expertise the harvesting past. With IngramSpark we want to self publish due to POD (print on demand) almost world wide and thus lowering the shipping costs.
Enjoy your beautiful season, makes me feel like being child again and back on my parents grounds as Dad was a lifelong market gardener, both outdoors and in the greenhouses.
Hugs,
Mariette
Hello rtc, Vegetable and fruit plants look every bit as beautiful as those cultivated for their flowers.
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Loved this post, did not know potatoes have violet flowers.
ReplyDeleteHi! Nice plant tour on your bicycle. The white flowered tree looks like a white kousha dogwood tree. We have some like that in our neighborhood. I looked it up online. Onions in the states that are like onions you showed are shallots...almost look the same. They are good but rarely use them except for a specific recipe. Have a good weekend. Hope all is well with you. Take care.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing I love more than eating fresh green peas straight from their pods!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the interesting blog topic.
ReplyDeleteI love eggplants, potatoes,onions, and the photos of their growing give me much pleasure.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting post to me. I didn't know about the flowers on potatoes! How beautiful that must be. Nor did I know about the sweet potato leaves or the onions! Thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks also for your visit to my blog and lovely comment. It's always good to see you there.
The garden plants looks so healthy and well cared for...and they all look so free of weeds. That hydrangea is beautiful, too. Yes, we used to grow sweet potatoes sometimes when I was a kid. Not every year but some years.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you take a sweet potato and put and end in water, it will start growing roots and a vine.
I love hydrangeas..they are so pretty when bloomed out. Thank you for the tour of vegetable plants- I didn't know about the blue onion! Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a great Sunday!
ReplyDeleteThe blue hydrangea is beautiful. I never really knew about this flower until I saw so many blog friends have them in their gardens. My daughter has a big bush of Purple ones in her front yard. Yes, the rows and rows of green onions look very nice in the fields. How interesting that the potatoes have violet flowers.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy these June days. : )
~Sheri
I love sliced fresh onion when eating hot noodle too....
ReplyDeleteI have grown sweet potatoes in my backyard long time ago....I love to fry it.
Have a great day.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteSo many wonderful plants and veggies. I love eggplant, yum. The hydrangea is beautiful. Enjoy your day, wishing you a happy new week!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI love eggplant as well and grow 3 plants in my greenhouse, Now they are in bloom. Hope to eat my own eggplants. I also grow sweet peas. Thanks for tell and show us veggies.
Thank you very nice. I am growing two kinds of sweet potato in pots on my balcony. The one, i call camote morado. The other is just for beauty. Easy to grow and beautiful plants.
ReplyDeleteWonderful collection of photographs, it is nice to see everything growing.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Adorei a publicação! Já tivemos Taros no jardim... e desconhecia por completo que seriam comestíveis! Estamos sempre a aprender!...
ReplyDeleteBelíssimas as imagens, que adorei ver! Um grande abraço!
Ana