I have to show you my mum's little secret
vegetable garden. It's just too beautiful to miss!
My mum showers it with lots of love and care everyday that in return,
it provides us our daily vegetable need.
No wonder there is a saying - "you reap what you sow"... Not only is
this true in the vegetable world but also in many other aspects of our
lives. However, planting good seeds doesn't guarantee good returns
because if u have planted good seeds but do not water them everyday,
the seeds will not be able to grow. Wow, I love that my mum has planted
some wisdom in me while planting vegetables! hehe..
My mum planted a variety of vegetables. There are potato leaves (and we
get potatoes too!), long beans, yam (my favourite!), eggplant, mustard
vegetable, 芥兰菜, eng cai, ladies' fingers (okra), mani cai 香菜, wild
ginger, 夜来香 etc. There
are coconuts, bananas, mangoes, kedondong, longan, pamelo ...too and many
others which I can hardly name :S Ok, that reminds me to learn more
..... Recently, mum's mango tree produces a lot of mangoes too.
Because my mum doesn't use any chemical or pesticide, the squirrels ate
some of them. I imagine the squirrels happily picking the biggest and
sweetest mangoes on the tree, eating all they can hahaha... too much
cartoon can make someone childish... errrr... i meant imaginative :P
Some of my mum's assorted veggies
My neighbours and mum's friends like to drop by to check out my mum's
vegetable garden. It's amazing how my mum can turn a messy bush into an
organised, full of goodies vegetable garden! I love that we have
organic vegetable to eat everyday. My mum even packed some home grown
ladies fingers for me to bring over to Paris for my sisters. We simply
steamed them and had them with chili sauce. They tasted naturally sweet
and full of love! That's the beauty of home grown veggie. No
complicated, fancy cooking skills required in order to make it tasty.
The yellowish flowers are called 夜来香
My mum fries rice with these, cook soup with these etc.
Really unique!
So many types of veggies.
Even Tiger had fun in the garden haha
It isn't easy growing our own veggie and fruits. I see my mum working
hard early in the morning and evening. It's good exercise for her as
she gets to sweat and work out instead of watching TV. But weather can
be a bit harsh especially during dry season... guess what, i made
something for my mum with our broken umbrella.
Tada! my mum's personal shade! haha
I love my mum. She is our super mother at home. She is a great cook, a
great farmer, a great nurse, a wonderful teacher and of course, a
wonderful mother!
