The kitchen garden

I've decided I'm going to grow things anyway, despite the lack of available garden, so I've made a kitchen garden, literally, in my kitchen.

I currently have 3 avocado seeds on the go, and have recently planted basil, thyme and parsley. Note the thrifty use of empty water bottles in place of plant pots. This is mainly because there's nowhere to recycle plastic here, and I hate throwing it away. Alternatively, I could have gone and thrown them over the wall into this garden, the owner would probably have been delighted.

I realise that this isn't the most exciting subject for a blog post, but I can't believe how quickly things grow here. I planted the basil on Saturday, and this was what it looked like yesterday. At this rate I'll be eating it next week! I only planted the thyme and parsley yesterday so no sign yet, but I'm sure it won't be long.

I've also just picked 16.2 kg of calebasse chinoise from the garden. Time to see if you really can store it for months because I doubt I'll get through all that by myself.

From my bedroom window I can see directly into the neighbours' gardens and this is what I see:

Two varieties of mango

Bananas!

Mango season is coming, now I just need a cunning plan to befriend my neighbours so they will share with me!