{"id":1105,"date":"2008-02-02T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/02\/02\/flavors-of-life-pumpkin-blossom\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T20:32:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:32:31","slug":"flavors-of-life-pumpkin-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2008\/02\/02\/flavors-of-life-pumpkin-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavors of Life ~ Pumpkin Blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Sree\/pumpkinblossom.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"Pumpkin Blossoms, Painting by Sree\" \/><br \/>\nFlavors of Life ~ Pumpkin Blossom<br \/>\nPainting by <a href=\"http:\/\/sreescanvas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sree<\/a> (Colored Pencils on Paper) <\/center><\/p>\n<p>It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s rarely that a pumpkin vine grows to its prime to bear fruit in our garden. At my place, we are crazy about the pumpkin leaves (tender ones), buds, flowers and the young pumpkins. Hence any growth is literally &#8216;nipped in the bud&#8217;. Might sound like a heartless act of greed, but just try a pumpkin flower stir-fry or crisp deep-fry, and you will know why! However, this vine crept up beside the home inconspicuously amidst a huge rose tree (yes, the rose bush has grown into a tree beyond the first floor), and one fine day we noticed a huge pumpkin (seven Kilos!) &#8216;harvested&#8217; in time for Sankranthi.:) I wish the remaining flowers, leaves and buds as much luck this year.:)<\/p>\n<p><strong>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/sreescanvas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sree<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previously on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/?p=1086\" target=\"_blank\">Flavors of Life<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/?p=1087\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/Sree\/bananavendorthumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Click on the image to see the \"Banana Vendor by Sree\" painting in full-size\" \/><\/a><!--d98ad3ae2f3df1024db3d48b0f3ed069--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flavors of Life ~ Pumpkin Blossom Painting by Sree (Colored Pencils on Paper) It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s rarely that a pumpkin vine grows to its prime to bear fruit in our garden. At my place, we are crazy about the pumpkin leaves (tender ones), buds, flowers and the young pumpkins. Hence any growth is literally &#8216;nipped in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,163,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingredients-photos","category-pumpkin","category-sree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}