Mary Mary Quite Contrary

How does your garden grow?

I was wondering how it would grow here myself. Seeing as how our seasons are: Summer, Summer, Summer and Summer! Since tomatoes are so easy to grow and love the heat of summer I thought they would do very well. So I planted them and watched them grow. Apparently tomato plants do love the heat of Guam because there were hundreds of little flower buds. But as the plant grew flowers wilted and fell off and I only saw a few tomatoes! Then someone told me that without bees - unfortunately the boonie bees don't count (that is a whole other blog) there was no way to pollinate the flowers. So the plants got pulled out of the ground and thrown away. I mean who wants to grow a beautiful tomato plant and only get a few tomatoes?

Awesome Asparagus!

Round two: Asparagus, I brought some asparagus seeds with me to try and grow here and thought why not. I love Asparagus! I have never tried to grow asparagus before and knew they usually started from root but what the heck. I'm willing to try for strike two! So I planted some seeds in a small corner of the flower bed. My folks also sent me a small bag of roots and I planted a few of them too just in case if the seed plants didn't work. But, they are doing great! They don't resemble asparagus at least not as I remember it but these are young and I know you cant pick them until the second year. But they are growing!!  So I'm keeping them. *note we will have to keep you updated as they are suppose to be cut down in fall.. without fall who knows what to do?

Crazy Cucumbers

Round two was a success and I am feeling brave so why not go for it again? Cucumbers! Awesome in salads, sliced on a plate or made into pickles; cucumbers are just plain good. As you can see they are growing and there are hundreds of flowers. Just to be sure they would produce I go out every afternoon with a q-tip and swab from flower to flower. A finger works well here too. Guess you could say that I am busy as a bee! LOL.. We picked our first cucumber last week and added it to a salad. Yummmy! I now have a few dozen gherkin size cuc's so we may be flooded with them in a week.

Delicious Dill

With all the cucumbers we will have I may make some pickles. Cant make pickles without dill can you? No need to say anything at all this photo pretty much says it all.





Did Mary's garden have fruit? No? Mine sure does! How can you not try and grow some native fruit when you can't get them anywhere else but here? or maybe Hawaii or Saipan or.. well ok so you can get them other  places too!

Pretty Papaya

I am proud to show you my Papaya!

This was about 4" tall and the trunk was thinner than a pencil. At the rate it is growing I should have fruit by the end of the year! I can't wait.