Garden update
Working from home has really made me appreciate my little garden. The garden maintenance company is still sending its staff, so all I have to do is walk around (wearing my mask and keeping 2 metres distance) and make approving noises. Our contract with them is biannual, so at least those staff still have a job.
The wild lemon (English name of a local cultivated variety - looks like a citron, but with juicy pulp - makes a superb summer salad with chili, onion and ground peanuts/powdered chickpea) is fruiting very well. I expect at least ten big fruits, which is very good for a tree that's only two years old. The calamondin is doing nicely too, as are the mint, the lemongrass, the blue-pea, the beans, the Indian pennywort, the roselle, and the Thai basil. The chili, brinjal and ladies-fingers have finished, and will need replanting after the New Year holiday/lockdown ends. The kaffir lime is growing like mad, but not fruiting. It's grown for its aromatic leaf, mostly, but I do like the fruit as well; viciously sour, but candies well, and adds a huge amount of flavour if you just grate a little bit of the peel onto your salad or soup, or into a drink. We had an actual winter this year, so the mango is a little delayed, but I expect a decent crop in a month or so.
The wild lemon (English name of a local cultivated variety - looks like a citron, but with juicy pulp - makes a superb summer salad with chili, onion and ground peanuts/powdered chickpea) is fruiting very well. I expect at least ten big fruits, which is very good for a tree that's only two years old. The calamondin is doing nicely too, as are the mint, the lemongrass, the blue-pea, the beans, the Indian pennywort, the roselle, and the Thai basil. The chili, brinjal and ladies-fingers have finished, and will need replanting after the New Year holiday/lockdown ends. The kaffir lime is growing like mad, but not fruiting. It's grown for its aromatic leaf, mostly, but I do like the fruit as well; viciously sour, but candies well, and adds a huge amount of flavour if you just grate a little bit of the peel onto your salad or soup, or into a drink. We had an actual winter this year, so the mango is a little delayed, but I expect a decent crop in a month or so.