Rainbow Times

Coloful times in our garden:

Radishes in all colours and shapes!

Rainbow Chard - Delicious!

And a rainbow over our backyard :)


&Spring has sprung early so there will be an update on our propagation soon.™(Just saying: Tomatos galore!)

A few more hrs:)

Well, today was an office day unfortunately but to keep myself sane I took regular (albeit short) breaks in the garden. Yesterday was herb snail and front bed - so today I moved onto the other beds.

 Weeding alone took about 2 hrs - here's the start of the 2nd bed.

 And here's the other end finally weeded out.

 In this 2nd bed are some very yummy things. Here's some more kholrabi:)

 Up the far end are 4 marjoram plants. I planted 5 but one seems to have disappeared. These will probably transplant into one of the two herb areas once they are bigger. This has to be one of the greatest herbs on the planet.

 Here's a shot looking down the line of celery. They are really growing now:)

 Here's the start of the cauliflowers. They are all growing at different rates which is perfect. No idea what we would do if they all came at once. Probably get really sick of cauliflower!

 And here's looking down the bed - cauli's of the left, broccoli in the middle & celery on the right.

 So...moving onto the next bed. Here it is weeded out. There's plenty of space here to plant more things, I think I'll throw in some more radishes  down the front (I just love those guys) and then think about what might go in the space up the back.

 Here's the current crop of radishes all growing nicely. They have been in the ground only 2 weeks. Now that I've cleared out all the fallen leaves they might get a bit more sun and shoot up.

 Here's 3 more kholrabi - I seem to have dotted this all over:)

 The next crop of spring onions coming along. I took the last of the old crop today.

 Here's those lettuces looking rather green and luscious.

 And a better shot of the mutant cavalo nero. This is what happens if you just take enough for a meal now and then. The plant just keeps growing and giving. I've had 8 great meals out of this one plant and I foresee at least 2 more!

 Here's those spring onions I harvested. The outside ones are as thick as my thumb!

 Peas! Yay!!

 More on the other side. All 8 plants are starting to produce peas:)

 Here's the next crop of chard coming along nicely.

 And here's a job for tomorrow - weed out this end of the bed and provide a bit more climbing material for these snow peas and broad beans.

And here's the whole bed. Looks so much better weeded and tidied up. Onwards to tomorrow!

A day of work and joy

It's been days of work - sieving, pruning trees, sieving some more, cleaning up around the garden beds - our backs hurt with pain telling of fulfilled work and many achievments! We've eaten spinach out of the garden yesterday, it was intensely flavoured, and had our first salad and rucola today - it is great to harvest the first fruits. We learned a lot during our first season, and all of this will fo into our further efforts to make us semi-self-sustainable out of the backyard at some point in the future.


The clear winners of the autumn's germination project are - who would have guessed - the radishes - who looked up into the light in just under 48 hours. They were closely followed by the rainbow chard, of which 2 of 7 plants are looking into the sun already.






Another great joy today was to see our first two chili plants which have been hidden in the soil for the past two weeks - two in one day! It is an undescribable feeling to see those things grow and wake up in the morning making a new plant-   discovery! (But then again, I get excited quickly.)

Last but not least (contrary!) my beloved Passion Fruit Plant has grown two leaves in three days after being stagnant for two months. There is hope! :)

Whoa!

The one good radish has almost doubled in size this week

1 out of 5

I have one radish that is going gangbusters! I think the slugs have kiboshed the rest unfortunately.