moments of colours

Do you like vegetables?

    Well, some do… some don’t. For those who don’t, they say they dont’ like some veggies because of the ‘gooey stuff’ felt in their mouth. For those who do, well, there are lots of benefits to the body and the mind as well.

    At home, we happen to have a small space at the backyard where we can tend to some plants (and some animals too!). There are calamansi, tomatoes, okras and sayote. Its my first time to tend to a sayote plant! Actually it was planted by my father and I just continued looking after it.

    At first, I thought it would grow to  just a few inches up. But as days and months passed by, the vines thickened and climbed up to the second floor of the storeroom, up to where we use to dry our laundry. From a few mature pieces of sayote, planted, what came out have become a shade of green blanket over the entire laundry area!!

    I began to feel the excitement of a weekend farmer as I would tend to them only on weekends due to my work. I observed during the first few months that sayote plants are low maintenance; that I would just have to cut the yellowing ang dried leaves to care for it. Well that’s what I thought!

    Then came the first fruit. I got one big fruit one day sticking out like an incandescent bulb. Since the fruit was also green, I did’nt notice that there were other fruits getting bigger as the first one. After several days, portion by portion, little yellow flowers started to come out at the tip of each somewhat sticky fine vine. Small sayote fruits came out increasing in size, day by day.

    After the first harvest of one, two, three pieces, since last month, I’ve been harvesting kilos of the sayote fruit for our own family consumption whenever we want to and for sharing with neighbors, relatives and friends.

    Not eating veggies? You’re missing lots of vitamins and minerals for your body. Eating vegetables and also tending to it from seedling to fruit really gives a lot of benefits — not only to the body, but also to our mind and heart, especially when we share our blessings.  :wink:Â