Flowers are really a good and wonderful sight for eyes like mine. The good color, the shape of their petals, and the scent they share to us is really amazing. I couldn't help but wonder how wonderful the hands that make flowers to bloom and get pollinated by nature and make them turn into fruits and veggies to feed the world.
This year's produce of bitter melon was quite disappointing. I don't really know what the problem is regarding the production. Knowing that they really are hard to plant and grow them in here because they are tropical veggies, they were planted inside the hot house to make sure that they wouldn’t be affected by the strong gusty winds during any time of the year. However, there were days when the sun wouldn't be that cooperative to them as the rays would just be on the open space, although there were days when the sun would be so harsh, that they also get affected by too much heat and no fresh air to do their photosynthesis. Aside from that, the summer season became too harsh and drought was the very harsh enemy of all plants and gardens. As all living creatures know that water is the 'life providing thing for anything in this world. No water, no life, that's a fact. That is why we should really be careful using water, as wasting it would mean devastation for anything depending highly on it to remain alive.
This season, realizing that there is nothing we could do against nature's decision, we just have to endure it and live with it. Do what we can do and enjoy and appreciate what had been provided for us. So these tiny, tiny bitter melon were this year's produce. I did not mind about their size as nothing could be done to help them develop, other than feeding the vines with organic fertilizer--the comfrey brew and the sheep pellets--when needed.
As we always and should always learn from our past planting and garden experiences, it would be worth our while to adjust whatever nature necessitates for us to do to accomplish our objective --to produce food from our own garden, do as nature demands--that we make sure that whatever is produced in our garden is from organic elements--using only nature's fertilizer and to beat the enemies, (the insects as you know), from destroying what you have worked hard for. Most importantly, never use anything with any chemicals as the effect would just harm the air that you breath.
