I know many of you are still busy in playing FarmVille game on facebook. As mentioned before on this blog, here I am sharing the brinjals (Egg Plant) from my GardenVille! You can read about that mention in one of my previous posts here. Yes, home grown brinjals from my tiny rooftop garden. All these pictures have been clicked over a period of time as the plants grew bigger. Most of these were planted in soil filled bags instead of conventional pots. It was again a kind of experiment to see how good the plants grow in such bags. I am pretty happy with the outcome! The size of brinjals from the plants in bags were considerably bigger than the ones in pots. You can witness that it yourself in the images below. Click on images to see them bigger.
Now, you must be wondering about one different colored brinjal. Of all the greenish white brinjals, why only one is yellow in color? Well, I left it to ripen so that we can dry the same later on to extract seeds. With these seeds, we can start a fresh season once again! If you were wondering about the ‘BT Brinjal’ controversial stuff, here is some clue for you. Seeds can’t be extracted from plants like what I have mentioned here with those genetically modified BT Brijals. Everytime you need Brinjal plants, you got to buy them from a Bio-Tech seeds company. That is one of the major ire for farmers to oppose BT Brinjals.
Also to provide a quick update on the Chrysanthemum flowers, they have been blossoming all this while for over 2 months! Now the time has come to remove them and change to some other flowering plants. Brinjal plants may yield for another month or so. Stay tuned to know what I am going to grow next :)
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Hi Mohan,
Great to see someone growing his own crops that too without using the excuse of being an urbanite. I had always wondered how people spend hours playing FarmVille on FaceBook and when you ask them to plant a real crop/tree suddenly they are ‘too busy’. Glad to see an exception :-)
Congrats for a great harvest. It’s cool. I really love gardening myself. However, the point I would like to make is about BT Brinjal.
The fact that the fruits shouldn’t be rather than they can’t be used for getting seeds for the session of planting is that the GMOs can’t be allowed to sexually reproduce in a natural environment, because the recombination and modification of “genes” might lead to something completely undesirable. That is primarily due to recombination and mutations. You can control the first one, while the second is not in your hand.
Though another accusation might be that the GM research companies are looking to exploit the farmers monetarily. This could be true, but there is a better reason for it (as explained above).
Thanks Samir! I am no fan of BT either!
Hello Mohan,
I have given below the procedure to prepare Brinjal fry. Enjoy !
No No iam not a cook …. he he i just used 3 keys in my keyboard
1) ctrl
2) c
3) v
Method of cooking brinjals fry
brinjals fry is simple ,heat oil in a pan ,ad onions ,chillies ,curry leaves to it ,Stir for few minutes and add garlic ,turmeric powder and salt .Stir well till onion turns pink .
Add baingan pieces & stir well –close the lid of the pan till brinjal turns to be soft .
Now your brinjal fry recipes is ready ,if you like you could add mustart seeds also in the beginning & allow it to splutter before adding onions & other ingredients .
Try to cook brinjal fry with minimum oil & allow the brinjal to get cooked in the steam by closing the pan with a lid & keep low flame .
You have an amazing hobby planting vegetables in rooftop! I enjoyed the post as well as the pics. I live in an apartment and I have no access / permission to my rooftop!
Thank you Saraswathan! Hmmm that is one big drawback of apartment complexes when compared to independent homes.
Wow! Lucky you! I’ve always envied people who manage to sustain vegetable gardening…
And thank you for visiting my blog, and stopping by to say hello. Yes, am back and the show is on :)
See you around, Urban Green
Why envy? you start one too! Believe me it isn’t that difficult!
Wish Jayram Ramesh was subscribed to your blog!
Nice lovely little gardening experiment.
hmmm don’t you think that comment was a bit too over hyped? ;) thank you Olivia!
A relief to see a real gardener addicted to the game:) Thankfully I am completely over my 3 month long addiction with farmville. I am in awe of your beautiful vegetable garden. Do you live in an apartment? Can brinjals be grown on an apartment terrace? What about tomatoes?
Beautiful hobby indeed!
No more an ‘Addict’ Sharon!! It was a temporary mindset to learn the game on how indulging it can be.
Thank you! No I live in an independent own house. You can grow them if you have sufficient sunlight reaching the terrace and the plants. Tomatoes is pretty easy compared to brinjals, it doesn’t need that much of sunlight nor the care ;)
nothing like fresh food and the satisfaction of eating what you grow
Absolutely… Taste is the proof for that satisfaction :)
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