It's harvest time in our 80sqft vegetable garden on the terrace. Regular supply of okra(ladies finger), beets, cucumber(sambar variety) and green and red leaves(keera/cheera/dhantu) are coming in. It has a become a bit hot for the plants, but they are holding on well. But capsicum and carrots seems to have a tough time though. Carrot was a complete failure, capsicum plants seems pretty difficult to get off the ground. Tomatoes and bitter gourds should be on their way in a couple of weeks.
The biggest threat to our garden produce is not pests but monkeys - they raid the place regularly, then drink water from the tap and leave it open! They plucked a cucumber and on the way they plucked the plant out. A friend of us suggested keeping some dry fish around, it seems they don't like it at all. So we are trying it and seeing if that helps. Fortunately, they don't pluck plants without any fruits on them - so the roots and leafy ones are pretty safe from them. This is an interesting challenge. But they don't come inside the house now that they have stuff to steal outside.
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