Flowers

Beauties at my front yard in the early morning! 

Wax Gourd

This is my 1st attempt to grow Wax Gourd. They grow so lush against my sugar cane and try to grab any place that they could. 

The fruits are in white coating once ripen. 

 The fruit is about to ripe.  The ripen fruit have mild taste. Therefore we need to add flavoring to enhance the taste. Usually Indians add lentil to make it taste so good!

They have beautiful yellow flowers. The flowers are big and attract a lot of bees and ants. They must have sweet taste.

Papaya Tree

Papaya trees are getting very tall. With a "A" shape ladder we can't reach out for the fruits. Many fruits hanging on the trees! 

I need to cut the trunk so that it will grow again. However this strategy is not very promising. If I let them grow, soon it will be unreachable to pluck the fruits and the tree might uproot on strong wind! I'm really thinking on how to deal with the tree now.

The paper marks the maximum level we could climb by ladder.

Anyone have experience this problem? How you tackle them? I'm a bit unwilling to chop down the trees. All the 3 trees are really good in producing fruits!