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Pineapples are growing all over my yard every year. Mostly May, June, July and August is the Pineapple Season here in Goa. When we buy pineapples from market we cut off the top stem with the thorny leavy and replant. This plant needs sufficient amount of sun and water. Even if you don't water mich there's no issue but if you want a larger healthier produce it is better to water a lot. It takes 10 months for the fruit to grow and ripen. The fruit usually ripens from summer during April upto monsoons in August. The fruit is a rich antioxidant and a very good stomach cleanser. The plant has thorny edges on its long narrow leaves. It needs rich fertile soil. During monsoons from June onwards the plants gets plenty of water to produce a large fruit.

The Tomatoes in my garden have grown on their own. Let's say the nature has favoured it's growth. It so happens that when we cut tomatoes and was the cutting board some of seeds seem to fall into the sink and since the pipe has its end open towards a coconut tree, the seeds must have fallen off there and from there starts the growth. I have noticed that the plant needs lot of sun and water and starts growing with a small green fruit which grows to a yellow fruit and then a plump red fruit. It takes a few months around 3 - 4 months to produce the fruit if provided a rich soil. Since our soil has all the waste from the sink flowing into it, the soil must be enriched with a lot of nutrients.

My Lime Tree. Yes, I would like to tell you about this. The lime tree is the most common and is the best citrus fruit found in abundance in the region I live. It makes a very refreshing drink and adds that tangy taste to our culinary. My lime tree provides me fruit all round the year. The cycle that begins with blooming and ends with fully grown and ripe fruits is of a period of six to nine months. I have noticed the tree blooming white flowers mostly during the summer that is, in the months between March and June. The Tree does not bloom nor bear fruit between December to February due to the chilly weather. Lime trees grown from seeds may take up to eight years to bear fruit. This lime tree has taken almost 6 years to grow and yield fruits. It is a bushy shrub and the stalks carry a lot of thorns. It spreads its branches in all directions taking up a lot of space around it. My lime trees, spread in a diameter of three meters.  Seasonal pruning could be a good option so a...

Its the mash melon season. Our modus operandi is to purchase this fruit from the market. But now its time to make a change. I plan to relish the fruit and then scatter the seeds outside the kitchen window. This time I want to grow the Mash Mellon in my backyard. It so happened that at the end of the monsoons, in the month of September, the mash melon plant had spread its bows and large leaves on the ground of my backyard just outside my kitchen window. Obviously, some of the seeds scattered in the previous season had germinated during the monsoon; a season that boosts the growth of all green foliage as it nourishes the soil with the nitrogen floating in the atmosphere. The monsoons simply drain the atmospheric nitrogen into the ground injecting the soil with a fresh supply of this essential element. I took a walk in my backyard in the midst of the foliage consisting of weeds, wild grass, and foliage from the vegetation of newly germinated seeds. I look into the mash melon...