This is passion fruit growing in our garden. There are dozens of fruits on the plant along the fence. Its not ripe yet but I hope I can pick one before I come home. We also have bananas trees. These two fruits plus pineapple are our three choices of pudding, although oranges seem to be in season too at the moment.

To us it may seem that there are no growing seasons as each day we usually have some sunshine and some rain, which combined with fertile soils makes this country a perfect place to grow things. Everywhere you look, no matter how small the plot, Rwandans will have planted something, and they will know the best time to plant them and things do grow very quickly. A field will be planted with some small bean plants and in a couple of weeks they are two metres tall. And no matter where you are, out of the major town centres, there will be someone nearby labouring in the fields, usually with only a simple hoe which is used in a smiliar way to a pick. I can never work out how they seem to know whose plot of land is whose, but they do. Any excess is then taken to market to be sold.