The rehabilitation of our garden after we had an extension built for our house led to another project - an edibles section. We had long wanted to "formalize" an edibles section in our garden as there are mostly flowering and ornamental plants including orchids and cacti. I'm not counting here our mango, sagada orange and narra trees. We already had some herbs on pots and a sprinkling of chili (labuyo), basil, tarragon and blue ternatea (butterfly pea) around the house before our renovation/extension project. There were also alugbati and kalamansi (citrus) and a couple of papaya trees. Only the blue ternatea, tarragon, kalamansi and papaya trees survived. And so we embarked on this "edibles" garden project as we had our garden re-landscaped by our trusty handyman. Here are a couple of photos showing the edibles section.
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| The back of our house now features various herbs and fruit-bearing plants like chili, tomatoes, eggplants and okra. |
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| Potted plants include eggplants, okra and tomatoes. There are also herbs on the steel, multi-level planter. |
We also now have a plot where we are growing lettuce, kailan, and, recently, a couple of pineapple plants. We have already harvested papaya, eggplant, okra, chili and use tarragon and blue ternatea for some healthy drinks quite often. The papaya is seedless and sweet. Sometimes we pick papayas as ingredient for tinola but usually we let it become ripe for some treat after meals. We think having edibles at home, regardless of whether you live in a house like ours or in a condo (I have friends who grow their herbs at their condo units in Makati and Ortigas.) is something to be promoted and propagated.
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