I planted bitter gourd (karela) and bottle gourds this year in my vegetable garden. The vines are creeping in all directions and bearing lovely flowers.
Bitter gourd and Bottle gourd
Bottle gourd creeping everywhere
I am getting a very nice produce from the bitter gourd plant starting with small pretty yellow flowers and converting into pretty spiky karelas. One of my colleague at work even described it as "kind a like dinosaur" due to its spike.
Spiky Karela - Bitter gourd
But all the baby fruits on the bottlegourd plant appeared to be rotting or dying on the vine or falling off the plant before developing into a fully grown fruit. I did a lot of search on Google and found out why the baby fruits were dropping off. The reason for this disaster was inadequate pollination. The bottle gourd plants produce both male and female flowers and are not self pollinating. They need help from pollinators to carry pollen ...
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wow!! wow!! Poonam.. You do crocet too.. wow!! Those are simply stunning!!
ReplyDelete@Patricia Torres Thanks Pat. Yes I do crochet too.. I think I have a kind of ADS in arts and crafts... so I keep switching from here to there... :)
ReplyDeletewow Poonam these are beautiful..
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ReplyDeleteThanks Dipali..
HI Poonam, I found your blog wen i was searching for ideas for a crochet mobile pouch, your designs are nice.
ReplyDeleteHappy to stumble upon your blog. What yarn did u use?Here in India i have mainly found cotton yarn only in 2 or smtimes 3 thicknesses...nothing more than that, or i donno if im ignorant. Guess you bought ur yarn frm the US?
Btw im an Architect by profession and an ardent crocheter too :)
@MubmajThanks. I have used all yarn from US. I am not sure what will be the equivalent of that in India.
ReplyDeleteWow it is simply beautiful. When I was searching for mobile pouch model by Crocheting I found this one. I got some idea. Thanks for sharing the photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks Viji!
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