Veggie for today

 Lunch and dinner veggies... moringa leaves from our tree and brinjal from neighbour.

Moringa aka drumstick tree

fyi there are a few different spellings for this plant... moringa, muringakka, etc.

This tree is amazing. We just chopped off a branch, cut off all its leaves and stuck the bare branch into the ground. The patch we chose was mostly stones and clay. I put a little compost and shrimp shells at the bottom.

I was told not to water it for 3 days. I thought that would surely kill the plant but one week later, and with hardly any rain, the branch started to show signs of growth.

Even one other branch which I just chucked in the compost pile started growing. 

If it continues to grow well I will prune it aggressively coz the plant can grow into a huge tree. I've seen some in the neighbourhood about 50 feet tall.

Moringa has numerous benefits. I borrowed this pic from here. It illustrates quite well.

4 July 2021 update: Its growing nicely.