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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Vegetable garden
Plants are growing fast in my vegetable garden. The weeds, too. It is mostly grass and horsetail. I should sprinkle my tomatoes with a mixture of water and milk. So they say. I will try. I obviously plant everything too late... This is one third of my vegetable garden:
Let me have a piece of cake now. A colleague at work celebrates his birthday today...
Let me have a piece of cake now. A colleague at work celebrates his birthday today...
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Beets, beans, dill or asparagus or fennel perhaps, herbs too. I'm impressed! How much of your vegetables do you manage to grow for yourself, if you were to guess a percentage. I'm interested in buying a book (can't remember the name) by a Canadian that was here recently. He talks about what we can do to reduce our footprint, clever ways to produce in small areas. He talked about the types of foods people eat today and how we need to change our ways. He said something like, a good way to measure if it's a good food choice is "would your grandmother recognise it", "does it come from something natural, ie is the colour natural, the flavour" and "will it eventually rot and re-enter the food chain". All good things, and you'd wish obvious, but it's not so. I must try and make more time to work on our garden, try and yield more.
It is indeed beets, beans, fennel, borago, and some salad, carrots, radish.
I grow about 80% of vegetables myself (100% during the summer season; eating lots of zucchini :)) and I am sure that my grandmother would know all of that (you should see her garden!). Missing on my garden this year is cabbage and cauliflower, and parsley doesn't want to grow (or is perhaps eaten by hundreds of snails). I rarely buy vegetables in a shop, perhaps carrots during the winter because I still haven't learned how to store them properly. I wish I had my own big garden where I could grow trees as well. Anyway, I am sure I will fill some place with more strawberries and currant bushes.
I think that I have learned all this from my grandparents - how to be efficiently self sufficient as much as possible (growing vegetables, drying herbs, living with nature). I am grateful for this knowledge. A pity they live so far.
Just today I saw some completely white eggs on some blog. Funny, and lucky for us that we still have brown eggs in our shops - though this doesn't mean that they are not full of additives :(.
Oh my...so jealous. We have a balcony :( and all I manage to grow is tomatoes, chillies, capsicum, basil, parsley, rosemary, dill, koriander & thyme.
lovely garden you have.
Oh, even this is better than nothing - herbs! It must smell nice on your balcony. :)
I wish I had space for a garden as big as yours! Right now we're concentrating on tomatoes, zucchini, beans, cucumbers and carrots. Maybe in the fall you'll write a post on vegetable storage? We want to try canning some of our tomatoes this year, and learning about other storage techniques.
The place for my garden is rented, unfortunately I don't own it. Sure I will post as much as possible about the storage techniques if we don't eat everything before that. :)
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