Wow Xuan ~ What a green thumb you have! Your veggie garden is so lush and beautiful! Thank you for sharing and I know those whose gardens are sleeping now will enjoy your slideshow and will be inspired to think and plan for next years gardens themselves.

FlowerLady

Great slideshow - as always, your garden is wonderful!

My DH and I enjoy going out for Vietnamese food (San Francisco Bay Area), although the best is down in San Jose which is a little too far for us to drive just for lunch! Huge Southeast Asian community down there, but there are good-sized Vietnamese retail neighborhoods everywhere along the West Coast as well. My brother and I recently went up to Seattle to visit family and had some wonderful Vietnamese food there as well.

You can tell I haven't had lunch yet - your vegetable garden made me hungry for Bun Thit Nuong - my absolute favorite served in a bowl over lettuce!

Hi Xuan, looking at all your great veggies has me thinking of making a stir-fry for supper, not Thanksgiving here we had ours last month. I love seeing gardens from warmer climes this time of year, makes our winter go faster.
How's your Medinilla doing? I just hacked mine back it's spending the winter in front of the window on the kitchen counter. This is a plant that doesn't like cool weather, even in a greenhouse. I did manage to root a cutting of mine this summer it's going to bloom, I'm debating about cutting it off in favor of hopefully new growth, decisions, decisions LOL.

Annette

I'm glad you like looking at my plants :-).

FlowerLady: the veggies grew well because we had suitable weather for them during the summer: light rain every day. In fact, I have had several crops planted in the same beds. Now as we're approaching cold and dry season, I'm planting potatoes there. Will follow-up with some photos when I'm in Dalat again.

jkom: Vietnamese food is rich in vitamins, I think, as it contains many kinds of vegetables in the recipes. We always have at least three kinds of food on our table: meat/first stew (or cooked in similar style), stir fry vegetables and vegetable soup. Of course we change the meat/fish or vegetables every meal, but it's most likely those are the main "courses" of our Vietnamese diet. I'm glad that you like our food. I like Bun Thit Nuong, too. It's delicious especially when you have the right "nuoc mam/fish sauce" mixture! Wow, my mouth waters as I type this LOL.

Annette, my Medinilla is doing very well but hasn't produce any blooms yet. I had been keeping it in partial shade but last month when we were at a restaurant and seeing their medinilla loaded with blooms was in full sun, I moved mine out onto our front porch. It sufferred a few leaf burn. I don't know how it is now because I've returned to our Saigon home for 10 days now. But I hope it's OK. Here's a pic taken a while back.

About two more weeks and I will start the daylily seeds, Annette. I'll update you regularly how I'm doing with them.

Xuan

I LOVE how your vegetable garden is so beautiful Xuan, that is something I strive for!!
Your mystery vegetable looks like Senposai.

Thank-you for the tour,

girlgroupgirl

Wonderful!! I love the vegs and the great stone path, c

Xuan - it's perfect!!! Is that in Saigon or Dalat? Thanh is drooling over your peppers :-)

Edna

Beautiful garden! All is so lush. It's also interesting to see the flowers you are growing as well (the cleome, cosmos, daylilies, etc.).

Thanks for sharing,
Cameron

Thank you, everyone.

Edna, it's Dalat. Tell Thanh he can have all my peppers LOL, and mind you they're burning hot too! Vietnamese must have peppers with meals, always!

I'm glad you like my vegetables!

Xuan

... and fish sauce *lol*

Xuan, that slideshow was a real treat for my northern eyes, everything so lush, thank you, Martha

Thanks, mora.

Yeah, you're right, Edna!

Xuan