How does your garden grow?
It’s well past time to let you see how my veggie garden is going. I ate some of my first “fruits” the other day - a teeny, tiny cucumber, sliced thinly with cheese and mayo on bread… yum!
So, let’s take a peak at what else is growing in my veggie patch……
As you walk in the gate, on your right you will see a big patch of overgrown rhubarb (send your recipes in now, please!):
A bit further up there is an even bigger patch of asparagus, gone to seed, which is how it gets fed for re-growing next year:
Back at the little gate, on your right, you would see a few of my cherry tomato plants. There are lots of flowers and a few tomatoes starting to grow:
Moving right along… there is some lettuce gone to seed, and some parsley, and then.. one zucchini plant. I only planted one because I always get waaaaay too many! This one is a Lebanese Zucchini, which produces a small, light green veggie:
Next to the zucchini, in the corner, I have a little medley: one eggplant, three capsicum plants (green peppers), oregano & Italian parsley which I grew from seed, and two cucumber vines:
Here’s a closer look at the cucumbers,.. yep, I already sampled one and it was yummy! It’s a bit hard to see, but there are two little cucumbers growing there:
In the rest of the garden I’ve put four pumpkin plants. Since we don’t have a lot of water, they get to go wild, which is what they are good at:
The above pumpkin is growing right into the asparagus. I’m not sure whether there are any pumpkins forming under there, but I’m sure I’ll find out once it all dies down. But there is at least one teeeeeny, tiny pumpkin growing where I can see it…. can you?!
Well, that’s a short tour! It is not much, but quite enough for me this year! I will get enough harvested for us to eat during the summer and some to freeze for the winter.