vege-garden in the making

we live in an area that used to be an orchard. hence, the soil are naturally fertile. any compliment we get about the `good' state of our garden is scantly justified as we actually did little about the maintainence of our greens. obviously, we inherited these from our landloard, and even she admits do doing little to maintain the garden.

my mum who's staying with us until recently; started her vege-gardening with staples like spring onions, tomatoes, potatoes, melons and chili's. in a few short weeks, we could see the results almost `instantly'. the spring onion sprouted almost overnight and a the tomatoes are also growing in abundance.

for city dwellers like us in the past, it is almost like a small miracle to be able to grow and eat the vegetables we grow. not only we save money, we also get food that are naturally grown, free of any use of chemical/pesticide.

now, if we need spring onion for the dishes my better half whips up, we just run backyards and pull up a bunch we need.

pictures below
a. spring onion we grow on a wooden bucket on our backyard. they are probably easiest to grow.
b. chili plant. no chillies yet but hopefully we will be successful. chillies are expensive here but this is more for my wife since i can't take spicy stuff.
c. tomatoes. they grow willingly and readily and we will probably have more than we need ;-)
d. melon. not sure what kind of melon is this but we bought them and use them for soup. sprinkle some seeds on the ground and here they are now.....