London figs (Harrow)
Tag: astounding fruit and vegetables
Homegrown figs
Dock, Cherry, Love-in-a-Mist, Gerbera and Lady
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| Pet weed: Dock |
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| Cherry |
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| Love-in-a-Mist |
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| Gerbera and Lady |
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| Roses |
Snaps and claptrap
Weeds are good. I like them. We have to stick together. The camera can’t quite capture the delicate primrose colour exactly.
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| Primroses growing wild in the back garden |
In other news, our lemon tree has been freed from its greenhouse prison to romp about in the sunny outdoors. It is bedecked with flowers like jasmine only more grown-up and sensual. The one lemon is still a work-in-progress, hidden by two sentry leaves and lots of tiny lemons have got started and are hoping to hang around a bit longer.
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| Freed lemon tree gambolling and frolicking in the open air |
If life gives you one lemon
Yam, sweet potato, cassava, bitter melon
Clockwise from top left: piece of a large yam, two sweet potato, two cassava*, one large bitter melon. The skin of the cassava is slippery like a soapy sort of candle wax is coming through it from the inside. Bitter melon lives up to its name; one way to use it is in stir fry with beaten egg, garlic, onion and tomato – if you dare.
* Warning: Cassava is poisonous if not prepared properly. It contains a form of cyanide, which can lead to various disorders, paralysis and death. On no account should it be eaten raw. Ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava#Potential_toxicity
The road to strawberry jam
Strawberries
Update 14/6/2019:
Furthermore
If you wait long enough…
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| Lemon tree in conservatory |
…life will eventually give you one lemon.
White yam
When you cut one, the juice looks like coconut milk* and dries to a white powdery residue on the knife. The taste is truly bland. In the Philippines, they peel and boil them, then eat them as a sweet, dipped in sugar.
* The photo is not showing the coconut whiteness of it. Something wrong with the colour balance.
