Let it Grow - Ladies of Hive Community Contest #81

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I've almost given up trying to grow vegetables as we often have mischievous monkeys foraging for food in our garden, so they've raided our crop time and time again!
This big guy got hold of papaya from our trees as they certainly do not have fear of heights.

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There are some vegetables they do not touch, like lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, and herbs, nor are they interested in our Tamarillos, which is a fruit, but also from the Nightshade family to which Brinjals, Tomatoes, and Potatoes belong.

Come to think of it, neither have they been interested in digging out the potatoes, so perhaps I stand a chance in growing Brinjal, Aubergine, or Eggplant, whatever you call it in your nick of the woods!

This is the one vegetable I would love to see develop from a tiny seed to a baby plant and then watch it flower and produce those stunning deep purple egg-shaped vegetables. I would also like to try and grow different variants, like this striped one and the lighter purple brinjals.

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Brinjals are great for cooking really delicious vegetarian dishes which is what I use them for on the nights when I want to skip the meat.
Here I made pizza with a super-thin crispy base, using the more common deep purple variant.
Never peel brinjals as the skin is full of antioxidants!

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Brinjal is one of the main ingredients for a good Ratatouille which is best tossed into pasta, or served on rice or toast.

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This dish was stuffed cabbage leaves using veggies like baby brinjals, baby marrows, leeks and red peppers. Don't the veggies look beautiful!

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For now, I have to be satisfied with buying Brinjals and other veggies and fruit from my fresh produce vendor - I call it my Veggies-on-Wheels market! Everything comes straight from the fresh produce market, so has not been refrigerated to death!

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Can you spot the Brinjal seeds here? I do hope that I will be able to grow this beautiful vegetable one of these days soon!

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Photo by Diane Helentjaris on Unsplash

Ladies of Hive Community Contest #81
The question I chose to answer, of course, was:

If you plan to grow a vegetable garden, what is your favorite vegetable to grow and what dishes do you use if for? Feel free to include a special recipe using that vegetable!

I would like to invite @sreypov and @carolynstahl to join the Ladies of Hive Community, how about it ladies?

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I had never seen that kind of striped eggplant, here we only see the purple one. The pizza looks delicious. Thanks for sharing 😊

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Same here, I was very surprised when I saw the striped one from my fresh produce supplier, no difference in the taste though! I just looove it in pizza. Thank you for popping in @irenenavarroart, nice seeing you😊

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Thanks for the invite. I'm honored. I think I could do this. I really hope you can succeed with non monkey food garden. I'm really surprised that they don't like certain things like aubergine. On that note, those pesky monkeys are extremely intriguing to me. I would be so thrilled about monkeys hanging out in the garden, that I would grow a bunch of their favorite things just for them haha. What a different world you live in. I know I know,it's different when you actually live in that world.😊

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They still make us laugh with all their antics but when we see them in the garden, we have to close the doors as they'll try to come inside, looking for fruit or anything edible, if no one is around! I throw all the fruit peels and spoiled fruit down the bank on one side of the house.
It is a beautiful country despite all the problems, although each country has theirs in different ways!
Will look out and see if you've done a post yet😉

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I just realized the deadline is today and I have to go to work. Darn but it would have been tomatoes.😌

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I was torn between tomatoes as I often use it in my cooking, but I do have cherry tomatoes that grows well!
Never mind, they have nice writing prompts each week, worthwhile cbecking 🤗

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Interesting names; I've only known it as eggplant. I was telling another lady that I might need to relook at this veggie. I've never really cared for it in the past, but maybe I can find a way to cook it that it is palatable to me.

Thanks for sharing; love the market place. Take care and have a lovely day!

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It's funny how we have different names for some foods! Brinjal really is a versatile vegetable, you will be surprised at the delicious ways one can cook it..

Hope you're having a great weekend @elizabethbit 🤗

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Thank you @lizelle! It's been very good so far and I suspect tomorrow will be as well! Take care!💜🤗

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Oh, the big guy sure knows what to get, lol!

It would be interesting to see your brinjal plants when you get to grow them :) And your food photos are very inviting :) They look really delicious and being vegetables, they are healthy too!

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So right @ifarmgirl, he's the alpha male so picks the best and the younger ones get the scraps.
I do hope to get some brinjal seedlings and have my own, it just tastes so much better!

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Lucky him to just pick what he wanted hehe. I hope you will. We have yet to try growing that variety. It might be good to try and find it and try it here too.

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It might just be the hungry in me, but my mouth is literally watering. Those look amazing! Also, you've got actual monkeys in your yard? :O That is one of the cutest things I've ever heard.

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They are so funny, they even eat the bird seeds that we put out! We never get tired of looking at their antics, the babies are so cute!

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Planting food the monkeys don't know, perhaps best to plan in getting some onto the table for ourselves!

After trying over the years I now resort to herbs I can protect, not always but easier 😅, fruit I am lucky if we get one or two pieces the rest gone before fully ripened.

Local veggie store, straight from market still the better option!

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I'm able to grow herbs like rosemary, thyme, sage, mint and sweet basil, at least they leave that alone! We do enjoy going to Food Lovers Market as well, their fresh produce is really good as well!
Our 2 giant pawpaw trees fell over & used to bear enough for them, the birds & us, but we had to pick them as soon as they started ripening otherwise they'd take a bite and then just leave it, real rascals!

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Herbs and curry tree they appear to leave alone, Guavadilla stolen to taste long before ripe, normally lucky enough to get a few which I love with plain yogurt.

Produce does not grow as well as a couple of miles inland, resort to the fruit and veggie store to avoid conflict 😃with monkeys.

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