May 11, 2020
My mother and my father had been keeping a vegetable patch even before the pandemic in the country started. They do not have a very good relationship, but at least they have the same goals when it comes to the garden.
My mother also planted upland 'kangkong'. This kind of kangkong is different from the water variety. It doesn't have hollow spaces inside.
We also keep quite a number of bougainvilleas but that would be for another day.
I want to share with you something about eggplants I have learned from my Japanese students. It's the phrase, "Aki Nasu Wa Yome Ni Kuwasuna." It means, "Do not let your daughter-in-law eat autumn vegetables." This phrase has two possible meanings. The first is that eggplants are known as a vegetable that could cool your body and a cool body wouldn't be good for an expecting daughter-in-law. The other meaning is that autumn eggplants are so delicious you shouldn't let your daughter-in-law eat it. It is rooted from the very old rivalry between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law.
Either way, I love eggplants all seasons and I luckily do not have a mother-in-law who would stop me from eating delicious eggplants!
Here are some other photos.
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