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Lablab/Bataw
Lablab -Bataw – Parda – Hyacinth bean (Dolichos Lablab) is one of my favorite vegetables. I like to cook it with pork and shrimp with “sotanghon” or cellophane noodles. I don’t have it in my garden now but when I did, it grew like crazy. It is a vine and needs trellis or fence to…
Snow Peas
Snow Peas are one of my favorite vegetables. It is sweet and crunchy especially when it’s fresh. I eat them while gathering in my garden and I sometimes run out of beans to cook. Now is the time to plant this succulent vegetables. It is a little bit cooler and the rains we are having…
Malunggay/Moringa
Malunggay/ moringa (Moringa Oleifera) is also known as horseradish tree because the roots taste just like horseradish. It is also called drumstick tree because the fruit or bean pod is long. The fruit is segmented in a triangle and has lot of seeds inside. In the Philippines, we used the fruit or beans as vegetable. …
Water Chestnuts
Water chestnuts are synonymous to Chinese cuisine. They are the ones that makes water chestnuts popular all over the world except we only see them mostly in cans. Once in a while you will see them in Chinatown but you probably will not recognize it because they look like the corms of certain flowering plants…
Pumpkin/Kalabasa
This is the pumpkin now after I helped it to be pollinated (notice I have also long beans in the same trellis). Two weeks after I hand-pollinated the female pumpkin flower, it has grown and almost ready to be picked. That’s one of the things that keep me going when it comes to gardening. Patience…
Prizehead Lettuce
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