Choko

This choko vine is doing very well.  It is growing from a pot but I am sure the roots have gone into the ground.  I have been picking the shoots for vegetables which send the plant into productive mode, creating side shoots and flowers.  I hope to harvest chokos in winter.  At the moment both vines are producing a lot of flowers.  The other vine is climbing all over the hakea tree in my outside garden.  I can see the hakea flowers amongst the choko leaves.

The choko flowers are tiny.  Out of these three flowers one choko may form.  There are enough flowers to give me some chokos in winter, I hope.

feijoa and chilli

In March I did not expect to see the feijoa fruits grow any bigger as they seem to have remained the size of my little finger nail.  I blamed the absence of rain.  In the last few weeks a few of the fruits suddenly doubled, then tripled in size.  I have placed a net over the bush to protect the few precious fruits which are about the size of a small roma tomato.

These Thai chillies will keep me happy over the next few weeks.  I hope there will be enough warm days to ripen the green ones.