Tag: Gardening

The first cocktail tomatoes are taking on color and more from the garden

Checking the crops, harvesting and a small visitor

Every now and than I check my cabbages for caterpillars and I have noticed that the white cabbage is finally starting to make small heads.

There are a number of Hokkaido pumpkins turning orange, so soon we can start to harvest them for direct use. If we want to store these they need to ripen completely first. My son is already looking forward to the pumpkin soup I will be making.

Lots and lots and lots of zucchini and also a cucumber.

The cayenne pepper is also doing well. They just need to start turning red.

All in all the garden is doing well. We are harvesting a lot of green beans and freezing most of them for winter. We can also harvest some red beets now and than and the early potatoes are getting dough out. So many beds are getting empty in need of new crops soon.

And this grasshopper paid us a visit.

A new strawberry bed

Now that the onions are out I have tried to improve one raised bed and planted strawberries and some flowering perennials

If you have been following along you will know that we just filled our raised beds with normal soil. Now I am going to try and improve the soil one by one as they are emptied. I have started with one of the onion beds. With the help of the kids we dug out a generous layer of soil and put in a layer of straw. Not to thick. Than the soil came back on that and the top is covered with a layer of straw again.

I had some strawberries on spots where de dogs can excess them, so we dug these out and planted them in this bed, spreading out the runners nicely. In the middle I added some beautiful flowering perennials. For now this is finished, but there is some more space for strawberries we will ad later, after the runners we fixed in some pots have rooted well.