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Mar. 9th, 2009 07:34 pmYesterday I cleared out half the green house. Way too many snails in there for my liking, but luckily no "iberians", just your regular garden snail. I put them in a pot and flung them out on the field, the gulls were watching, so hopefully they took care of the unpleasant job for me.
The green house and kitchen garden will be my responsibility this year. Last year I did almost no gardening because of the house renovation, puppy-Lia and the flu/MS combination that had me more or less knocked out for 3 months. This C is way to busy with his new business to do all the planting and harvesting he did last year.
So the plan is:
Greenhouse:
- various tomatoes
- grapes
- various chilis
I'm not sure if I should plant bell peppers and aubergines, the aubergines are quite prone to fungus and the bell peppers take time to turn yellow and red. I'm not keen on them when they're green. Melons are out of the questions. I planted them once before, C planted them last year, my mother plants them every year and they just don't get large enough or sweet enough. I think it's just too cold and too short a season here.
Outside:
- strawberries (we have loads of strawberry plants from last year and will probably have more strawberries than we can eat this year)
- herbs (loads of herbs from last year as well)
- peas
- potatoes
- carrots
- parsley roots
- onions
- salads
- leeks
- maize
C would like beans, but I tend to find them either boring or a hassle to cut and de-string. I also need to look into traditional plants, seasonal planting and food preservation. It would be cool if the kitchen garden could provide us with greens way into winter, but no...don't mention kale. I hate kale.
What I love is digging up potatoes. There's a sort of a treasure hunt element in it.
Other plans for the kitchen garden includes putting down a traditional stone path. We have the stones and I've seen it done before and the kitchen garden is a non-offensive place to experiment.
The green house and kitchen garden will be my responsibility this year. Last year I did almost no gardening because of the house renovation, puppy-Lia and the flu/MS combination that had me more or less knocked out for 3 months. This C is way to busy with his new business to do all the planting and harvesting he did last year.
So the plan is:
Greenhouse:
- various tomatoes
- grapes
- various chilis
I'm not sure if I should plant bell peppers and aubergines, the aubergines are quite prone to fungus and the bell peppers take time to turn yellow and red. I'm not keen on them when they're green. Melons are out of the questions. I planted them once before, C planted them last year, my mother plants them every year and they just don't get large enough or sweet enough. I think it's just too cold and too short a season here.
Outside:
- strawberries (we have loads of strawberry plants from last year and will probably have more strawberries than we can eat this year)
- herbs (loads of herbs from last year as well)
- peas
- potatoes
- carrots
- parsley roots
- onions
- salads
- leeks
- maize
C would like beans, but I tend to find them either boring or a hassle to cut and de-string. I also need to look into traditional plants, seasonal planting and food preservation. It would be cool if the kitchen garden could provide us with greens way into winter, but no...don't mention kale. I hate kale.
What I love is digging up potatoes. There's a sort of a treasure hunt element in it.
Other plans for the kitchen garden includes putting down a traditional stone path. We have the stones and I've seen it done before and the kitchen garden is a non-offensive place to experiment.
