It's a baby Tomato!!!!!!

Yesterday my tomato plants looked looked wilted and I was worried my shaking ,vibrating attempts at pollination had killed the plants but they soon recovered and I think I can see a tomato forming in the first flower, at least that what it looks like. 
A few more days and we can be sure. So that's good news.

My Salvia splendens are doing great as is the ornamental aparagus. Besides the summer heat has still not hit us so we have cool mornings and pleasant evenings and that seems to help the plants.

Gardening in Dubai

Gardening is sure a challenge in Dubai, especially if you stay in an apartment with a balcony. Everything has to be bought from stores, potting soil, containers and even plants. Most unlike home in kerala where a garden is started quiet easily, mostly with plant cuttings from neighbours, friends or even total strangers. Since everything grows fabulously in the good fertile soil and with abundant rain, gardening used to be a breeze.
In Dubai it is different, the summer temp can easily exceed 50 degree centigrade and getting the perenials to survive that is an art. I usually move everything inside into the airconditioned 
rooms,  away from the sun, but still manage to lose  many plants during the annual two month vacation. The people entrusted to water the plants kill some by over watering and some by underwatering. Well the vacations are approaching and I am experimenting with various plastic bottles hoping to develop a drip irrigation system that ensures my plants getg enough water till the person comes to water every week.

My Tomato Plants

My plants are thriving and are covered with flowers, but i have absolutely no idea how to pollinate them. All the internet searches recommend shaking, vibrating etc etc etc. I tried it but it hasn'seemed to work. Hope they self pollinate and bear fruits.
I have just three months more before my vacation and hope the tomatoes are ready before that, I hate the thought of all those fruits and the plants drying up in the hot july-august Dubai sun while I enjoy a wet monsoon in Kerala.

Forgotten

Today I have completed 38 years in the human form and 7 years as a married person. But it would have been nice if someone had remembered the date and wished me. No one remembered , not my husband, not my mother, my sister's, no one at all. The lone wisher is a cousin who I am not really very fond of but now am slowly beginning to like.
Maybe death is like this, when you are totally forgotten and nobody cares.