How to preserve Karaunda fruit harvest as a jelly or instant dessert
Karonda jelly is good to add to any dessert or eaten with bread, roti, poori, pancakes and cream.
Karonda jelly is good to add to any dessert or eaten with bread, roti, poori, pancakes and cream.
Bitter gourd is easy to grow from seed. The seeds planted in February through April in successive sowings, give sufficient bitter gourds to last till August. They do well in a garden, no doubt, but flourish just as well in pots in balconies.
Poinsettias in red and white set the tone for Christmas and stay in bloom till the Easter lilies join in bloom. These lovely shrubs grow very well in pots.
If you are lucky to find these trees already growing in your city, it is a great opportunity to ask the owner to let you take their saplings from under the trees in the rainy season. Nurture in partial shade, rich soil and keep moist in pots.
Tulsi and lemon grass are natural mosquito repellents in a garden, if their leaves are shaken a bit.
Giloi grows easily from seed or cutting. The thick stem is used as medicine/immunity booster. I find it work every time on fever and fatigue, and as a great prevention for exhaustion or fever. It grows easily from seed in the rainy season.
This Badhal tree inside La Martiniere Girls’ College, Lucknow, stands quietly except in late summer when birds make merry on its bright yellow, sweet fruit.