Leela's Garden & Kitchen

This amaryllis flower is one my favorite things in the garden. We were carefully watching it and waiting for it to bloom. It smells so good.   It was my birthday on April 20th and Suresh got me these tulips. I was very happy because they reminded me of when we were in Holland in 2017 for the tulip festival.   We have a rose bush with lots of pink roses and this is one of them.  Yellow and white iris came too. 

Even though I have a hard getting around now since being diagnosed with PSP, I'm happy to say that I have re-started my garden with the help of my oldest daughter, Shilpa, and my sister-in-law, Padma, both of whom have been quarantined here due to the COVID pandemic. I'm excited to show you all the new developments! Shilpa and Padma bought tons of seeds from the dollar store, including marigolds, spinach, cucumbers, and tomatoes. The marigolds have been planted in the corners of our raised beds to help keeps pests away. And, it looks like we'll have lots of tomatoes this summer! Check out these seedlings. We'll transplant these seedlings soon into one of our raised beds.  One of our French sorrel plants has bloomed and now has lots of seeds for us to plant. We absolutely love French sorrel in our house, and often cook it with spinach and dahl in the tastiest Indian curry. Here are some pictures of the seeds - aren't they pretty?  We had a lot of work done ...

I do not gardening anymore because of PSP.  It is progressive supranuclar palsy and out of  100,000 people only 4 or 5 people get it.  I do not know why I got it but it is progressing very fast.  It has no medicine and exercise is only medicine. I am not driving a car anymore.  I am not going straight especially they have one lane I tend to go to the left. Which is not good because I might go hit the oncoming traffic.  I got acoustic neuroma in my left ear and I had a gamaknife radiation my hearing complexly gone in my left ear. I got dengue fever when I went to India and that time I got scared.  I went to blood count everyday and luckily it went up.   NowI got psp and it is scary.  I am falling down a lot but luckily I did not get hurt much except one time . I fell down on my teeth one time on a Saturday.One tooth got chipped I got root canal treatment and it cost alot to get three root canal treatments .    

It is 2017 summer and I got some egg plants and pepper plants and they are doing good .  Last two summers I am in boston most of the time from July to December and I did not do that much gardening.   I got some bean seeds from Meena and Malabar spinach seeds from Seetha.      I went to Netherlands and I saw tulip festival.  I am very happy to see the tulips.