My husband's parents are farmer.
My husband didn't like helping their parents as a child.
He and his brother had to weed spacious rice paddy, but they didn't like it.
After they graduated from school, they started working apart from their hometown.
But my husband likes growing vegetables in our small garden.
He never plants flowers, he wants to grow only something to eat.
He said:
"I don't want to be farmer. It is really a hard work. But I like growing vegetables. We can get vegetables to grow them by ourselves cheaper than to buy them at the supermarket. If I grow them in our narrow garden, I can manage it. "
I don't take care of vegetables at all because I have already got a lot on my plate.
I found the cucumber's flowers yesterday evening.
They were yellow and there was a small cucumber under the flower.
It was like a cucumber baby!
"Hey! Come and look at the cucumber! It is like a baby!"
I called my 6-year-old daughter who loves cucumber.
But she didn't come because she wanted to eat snack and it was raining strongly.
My husband also planted bitter melons (Bitter gourd / Goya).
I didn't like its bitter taste before, but now I like it.
It includes rich vitamin C, dietary fiber, calcium, iron and it is said that it can prevent the summer heat.
It is also called "green curtains" because its vines twine around the net and it can be able to block out the sunlight.
I have heard several times from people who grew bitter melons that they could harvest too many bitter melons, so they had to give them to somebody like friend, co-worker, and neighborhood.
But I am looking forward to harvesting them!
