One new vegetable that I added in my diet lately is bitter gourd. Not a favourite item for many due tonits bitterness, but I develop a great taste of it, also it is good for tummy and also help in controlling sugar level. So I made a little space to grow some of my own in my terrace. However seems this time it lack something as most of the fruits were spoiled. Here is a little update on my bitter Beaty on my terrace.
This year, I am limited with my terrace gardening. The mud on the roof making my old terrace to leak during rain, so I am content in producing any more item. However I made sure to grow little bit of bitter gourd in a small space. Even in rain scarcity it grows densely.
One interesting thing about bitter gourd is its flower fragrance. The more it taste bitter the more fragrant are its flower. Naturally yellow in colour, the fragrance spread across the area and made my morning very beautiful with its unique scent. Every morning I woke is with its fragrances.
This year the fruits is not as expected. While I was waiting for get the fruits to grow bit longer, I noticed I have two quality of it growing simultaneously. While one looks Orange, the other is in Green. Green supposed to be the raw one, which we consume, while Orange get naturally ripped and it's seeds can be used for next year.
Not only this the ripend fruits were already spiltting up naturally. It looks like it open up its jaws to eat something. This is first time I saw a open mouth bitter gourd.
The best attractive part is the Orange look in between the green leaves. This is the first the fruits were pre maturally ripening. As per my understanding it would have grown a little bit more, however it get ripe little faster than expected.
Still the Green raw are few left on plant. What is more amazing is to find two different natural colour growing in same plant. The natural colors are hard to find. And now my little plant is full of Green and Orange and Yellow colours.
Even though few of the fruits were spoiled due to premature ripening, I still have many flowers alive , with an expectation to get few more yield this year.
But looking at most of fruits which get spoiled I belive it was due to water scarcity, as we less rain and I didn't gave much effor to water them. Not sure may be there could any other reason. But the wastage is in bunch and more of them were ripend.
But still I didn't miss out on savoring some of the fresh plucked this morning. In total I had 12 little bitter gourd this morning to add to my meal.
After enjoying little dishes of it I made it to #Hive with little yield so far for this year. This is my garden update for July.
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