We had a father’s day cookout at my dad’s house on Saturday and the storm swept through the area that evening and made it very difficult to grill outside. We managed but I didn’t get a chance to take any picture of the foods. After the storm had passed, I went outside to photograph his garden.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/25307646 w=515&h=290]I uploaded my video in HD format, if you have a slow internet connection please watch in Youtube.
I was surprised to see how tall his corns got, his garden takes on a different height with all the string beans climbing the trellis and reaching the top.
I missed part of elementary school education in the US and read about the corn from Lee’s library book. The corn plants have both male and female parts, the male part is known as the tassel (picture below). The tassel usually consists of several branches that looks very much like rice pods, and it has many small male flowers. Each male flower releases a large number of pollen grains, each of which contains the male sex cell.
The female floral organ is called an ear, my dad calls it the corn. The immature ear consists of a cob, eggs that develop into kernels after pollination, and silks. Pollination occurs when pollen falls on the exposed silks. Following pollination, a male sex cell grows down each silk to a single egg and fertilization, the union of the male and female sex cells occurs. The fertilized egg develops into a kernel and inside each kernel is a single embryo of a new plant. These are small white Asian corn.
My sister’s tomatoes are huge.
The storm had broke off one of the branches of the Thai eggplant. It was extremely high wind if you had a chance to watch the beginning of the video.
Lemongrass
Chili peppers
It has been very dry and we got about 2/3 inch of rain. Even though it ruined our cookout plan, but none of us were complaining since we desperately needed the rain.
The cucumber plants need a lot of water to bear fruits that will stick.
It has been several years since my dad planted the string beans here. This is a good spot since it gets plenty of sunlight during the day.
There’s the string bean.
Crab apples
Pears
Jasmine
It was the 21st week of blooming when the lower branch flowers fell off. I think the top branch flowers still have a few weeks to go.
Nye Noona 
I love all those close up shots. Your dad garden can easily supply small Lao/Thai restaurant with fresh vegetables and herbs.
Thanks seeharhed, I would love to own a lens that would go below f/4, that’s the lowest it would go for all my lenses. My dad plants enough for my sisters that live in NYC, it used to be enough for us too before I have my own garden.
I just bought myself jasmine plant I hope I can keep it alive. I found out Baithong Chun Ngarm is coming to Wat D.C.
salalao, I’ve been wanting to buy the jasmine from the temple but never have enough room in the car.
I’ve never heard of her before, maybe my sisters would know her. I like the Lao classical dancers and would go to the temple just to watch that. 🙂
I actually heard of Baithong but can’t tell you her hit song. hahahhahah I think I downloaded her songs a year or so ago. I’ll go through my external drive and see if I can post her song for you guys to sample.
Like to check out that temple again in the near future. But, something about the east coast heat and humidity.
I never heard of her neither- I lookup on U- tube one song came up Mor lum song. I went to ethaicd site no name found. Almost every night I listen to streaming radio luktoong mahanakorn 95 FM never hear her name nor on the top 10 luketoong billborard
I can’t get over the fact you saw Takatan.
Oh yes let me know when you visit the East- We can do beer lao and johnny blue. 🙂
I told my sister and she has never heard of her either, I guess we’ll find soon. 🙂
The jasmine flower must smell nice. If I had some jasmine flowers, I would add the dried petals to my green tea.
cambree, I do love Jasmine green tea, I might have to give this a try tomorrow since they have so many in bloom right now and a few dried flowers.
Thanks for your stories and all the fine photos from your dads garden, it’s a pleasure to follow how all the plants are growing here – the climate where you live is warmer than in Denmark.
Hi truels, it amazes me of how fast things grow in his garden. The weather is a lot warmer here, and the rains/thunderstorms in the evening help tremendously.