My chayote plant gets bigger and first fruits are appearing!
Hello, fellow gardeners? How are you?
I'll post a quick update to my little gardening experiences. My chili pepers are doing so-so, but I do not have recent photos of them. I have two pepperoncino plants, that seem to love the setup where they are growing, because there are a lot of chili peppers, waiting to get ripe.
Sadly, the Moruga Scorpion peppers keep on dropping their flowers and I don't know where the problem is. Of the two plants, only one pepper has formed and is going to get red pretty soon, in my opinion. Chocolate habanero plant has 3 peppers at all, while the Carolina reaper even isn't flowering. Pretty strange situation...
Anyway, the chayote squash is forming a lot of fruits and they start to grow really fast. Here is one fruit from about 10 days ago.
5 days ago, it was this big:
And yesterday they are almost twice as big... And they keep on growing really fast.
I cannot wait to pick some fruits and cook them! I've eaten chayote only once, when they gave this plant to me, but now I will have a bigger quantity of fruits. Well, I ahve tried this pland, as I picked some shoots and steamed them, then adding them to some other vegetables and eggs. It turned out really delicious, although there was just about 6-7 shoots.
Some more are coming soon!
So that's for now, hopefully next time I will have some better results and photos to share!
See you soon.
Cool! My chayote plants are going strong too - we're in the middle of a heatwave, and they're simply loving it - but so far, no fruits yet. I should actually still try the shoots; I keep forgetting they're edible. :0)
I wasn't aware that all the plant is edible when they gave the chayote fruit to me... And one more benefit from picking the shoots - this will most likely stimulate the plant to grow much more fresh shoots!
I have been doing great already been enjoying some stuff from my garden tomatoes, peppers, and herbs.
I’ve never heard of chayote. I hope you get some amazing photos of them when they are ready to share with #gardenjournal2019. Have an amazing rest of the week.
Hey, thanks for the comment and your attention. Chayote is not famous here where I live - in Bulgaria, but there are some people growing it. I'll keep an eye on your posts about gardening. I also plan to grow tomatoes next season. Can't wait!
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