Tindora plants

Tindora plants

Hello veggie growing friends,

My Tindora nursery is gearing up for the season. They are growing like crazy and I am running out of space! I will hold them for one more week. If you need a plant send me the prepaid code from FedEx. As soon as you get it, plant it in a pot with some healthy soil and keep it moist. You have to keep the pot indoors during winter (preferably on your window sill to get as much sun as possible). You can plant them in your yard as soon as spring arrives. While indoors, you may have to trim the vines down a bit to keep them from wrapping around your furniture J

Tindora plants

Tindora plants

Hello veggie growing friends,

My Tindora nursery is gearing up for the season. As soon as they start sprouting, I can send them your way. They are free, but you will need to send me a prepaid FedEx envelope if you are interested in getting one. Email me for my address and plant availability.

I have some already sprouting!

I would like to get some feedback from anyone who already got a plant from me last year. Is the plant doing well in your yard? Be sure to cut a few stems and plant them in pots or in water filled bottles before winter sets in. Store them indoors. You can plant them in spring. These plants start sprouting while indoors so you may have to keep them trimmed to prevent them from getting to wild. Would appreciate if you could post some pictures of your plant. 

Fruits (& Veggies) of Labor!

Here’s a display of today’s harvest.

Sweet, bitter, bland, and spicy produce from our garden. The egg plant will turn into Bajjis in another couple of hours. Can’t wait! Yummy. For those of you curious to know what a Bajji is, read on…

Slice the egg plant and dip them in flour and fry them in oil…..and you have soft fluffy mouth watering bajjis….  

When is the good time to start a Tindora plant?

I have quite a few people ask me for Tindora plant. This is what I would like to share with you all.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I am happy to note your interest in Tindora. We have been growing it for over three years now and they do very well in this Texas weather. Since these plants die in winter I save a few thick stems of the vine, place some in water and some in soil and keep them indoors. Some of them survive and some don’t so I end up getting a couple of strong ones that I plant the following year.

This year I have had requests from several people like you requesting me to send them the plants. Unfortunately I don’t have any left to share this year. However, I am planning to cut and grow several plants this fall so that I will have plenty to share with passionate vegetable gardeners like you. Although I don’t plan on charging for the plant itself, I would request you to pre-pay the postage so that only sincerely passionate growers will ask for them.

I will update my blog Cooking with Sella as well as my face book page Sella’sCreations with this information. I request you to subscribe to my blog or ‘Like’ my face book page so that you can receive updates as well as contact me when it is ready during this fall for your Tindora cutting.

I am interested in knowing what plants you have been successful with so far.

How did my veggies do in year 2012?

Every year we try some new veggie. This year we tried water melon and squash.

Water melon (we got 3 melons)

Squash (they died too quick, we got about 5 squash maybe)

Our snake guard produced only 2 and that is it!

We got a huge cabbage.

Bitter guard did very well as always.

Tindora, peppers, okra, cucumbers, Bell peppers did very well as always. 

Veggie Bed Coming Along Nicely!

We started working on our veggie bed during the first week of March. We added six bags of Mushroom Compost and six bags of cow manure and tilled the bed with a home tiller (Thanks to our friend who let us borrow his tiller)
I used six bags of Cypress Mulch to prevent weeds and to retain moisture in the soil.

Our raised-bed vegetable garden now has the following plants:

Tomatoes
Big Boy Hybrid
Sweet 100 Hybrid Cherry Tomato
Roma
Yellow Plum (new this year)

Peppers
Habanera (Both plants did very well last year-yielded hundreds of pepper)
Cayenne (new this year)
Jalapeno (Did very well last year)
Bell Pepper Green Sweet Hybrid (Abundant peppers last year)

Egg Plants (they did OK last year, I am going to pay a special attention this year)
Ichiban
Fairytale
White
Classic Purple Black

Cabbage (new this year)

Onions and garlic (new this year)
Spanish Peanuts (new this year)

Herbs
Curry Leaf (in several pots, waiting for new homes)
Cilantro (it is a jungle out there!!!)

On the trellis (Vines)
Pencil Pod Black Wax Bean (new this year)

Tindora (Indian veggie- Lush foliage although yield was not proportionate)

On their way:
I have Bitter Guard, Snake Guard, and Okra still in pots. They recently sprouted from seeds and hopefully will reach their permanent homes this weekend (subject to weather and husband co-operating)

Growing Tindora - Indian Vegetable

Growing Kovai Kai  / Tindora / Ivy Gourd - Indian Vegetable

This is the close up picture of Tindora (common name in India) It belongs to Cucurbitaceous family and its botanical name is Coccinnea grandis. It grows as a vine. It is also known as Ivy Gourd.

It can be grown from seeds or shoots. Growing from seeds will be a lengthy process and might take a couple of years to mature. When propagated from shoots you will get a bountiful crop the same year.
A friend gave me a seedling last year. We had a good yield from it. Since the vegetable itself is small, it is easy to miss them in the thick foliage of the vines. My daughter says they are playing hide and seek with us. Harvesting these little gourds is fun.

At the end of the season and before the first frost we cut the thick stem into several 4 inch pieces. We placed some in a cup of water and some in the soil (in pots) and kept them indoors.

Guess I must have a green thumb. Wow all of them shot up. I have one that already has a fruit on it! I had to provide support with stakes as the vines grew and climbed over my blinds. I can’t wait to plant them outside and let them grow wild.

Need a Tindora plant ? Post a comment on this blog get yours free!

I have 4 plants to give away on a first come first served basis.

Soon I will discuss how to cook this vegetable.

I saw a vedio of the all facts about Tindora.

I enjoyed this vedio hope you will too!