From Our Balcony

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When I saw the plant for the first time I thought it is bottle gourd (Ghiya or Lauki) when I saw the fruit, I thought it will grow into a pumpkin. After few days I thought of it as off season watermelon but it turned out to be a melon!

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Amrit, displaying it proudly!

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16 comments

  1. Hi Alka,

    Your mystery melon / balcony garden is beautiful.

    I am looking any relations of a Dwivedi who lived in Boston Massachusettes USA in 1969 while working on a PHd at Harvard.

    People called him Prem.

    Thank you.

    Coeli Dwivedi
    coelilove@yahoo.com

  2. OOPs, I meant to say looking for any relatives of a Dwivedi….

    Sorry for how that may have looked.

  3. Hey, You know for the first time seeing the picture of little fruit, I too guessed its watermelon / melon , But seeing the picture name kaddu1, I thought its some hybrid kind kaddu.

    Now we can say that parishram ka fal “Mithaa” hota hai.. See one thing more, your new mouse appeared in the new of melen – to say as if “Mein bhi hun “: )

  4. Coeli, I have written you a mail. Hope you have received that mail.

    Sudipta, nahi yaar! Those people are very lucky who have access to home grown things, fresh and unadulterated. I’m not that lucky. 🙁

    Maverick, nahi, its the natural one. I have not interfered with the process of nature. 🙂

    Prem Piyush, You are absolutely right. And nahi, mouse abhi ganesha ji ke paas chala gaya. Shayd aap ke home page pe hai. dhyan se dekhiyega. 🙂

  5. Hi,Alka..hey,that’s one nice melon..grin at the expectations as to what it was,from a bottle gourd to pumpkin to watermelon to melon…what else grows in your garden???

  6. Elementary, somebody wanted a kaddu, took it while you were sleeeping; and as left the muskmelon for you. Of course, he used fevikwik. :o)

  7. Raj, welcome! And I visit your blog. You write well.

    AmitL, agree. 🙂

    Paradox, wow! Please send that someone to my place again!!

    Praney, right. 🙂

    Paavani, yes, in the balcony. That’s all I have in this concrete jungle.

    Mridula, you are right. Kha gaye. 🙂

    Himanshu, I have updated. And thanks for your suggestions.

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