I realised tonight that a month had flown past since we planted our vegetable “plugs” this year. We´re catching up as we´ve has plenty of rain followed by sunshine and a few misty evenings, which the plants seem to love!
Our herbs are doing well, apart from my parsley and cilantro (coriander) which are still looking a bit sad.
I´ve let the sage flower as I think it looks so pretty. I sometimes deep fry the large leaves in very hot olive oil for a few seconds and sprinkle with coarse sea salt as a little nibble with almonds and olive…and wine, of course!
The mint is going crazy…these were the stragglers which I had to pull up later.
I´ve also let the chives go to seed as the flowers are also lovely in salads.
The basil is almost ready for the first batch of pesto.
We´ve got plum tomatoes.
We´ve got a “wild” tomato which has sprung up from a leftover seed from a squashed tomato from last year. It has such a desire to live, we´ve let it do its own thing!
We have some (very) bitter salad leaves and the delicious chard. The celery tucked in there is slow to get going, but we´ll let it take its time.
Tomatoes, beans and the little muscat vines.
We´ve got rocket seedlings (must plant some more though)
The first of the runner beans should be ready to pick in a few days
The onions are doing well too
We´ve got long thin green peppers and large bell peppers – but we can´t remember which are which. We´ll soon find out!
Cucumber flowers
The aubergine flowers are so pretty – wish they´d hurry up as I love aubergines (eggplant!)
Dwarf French beans (yellow and green) which we only planted a week ago
And finally, radish seedlings…not long now!
As I said, we´re a little behind this year because of the very wet spring that we had, but we´re happy with progress so far and already dreaming of grilled vegetables, salads and bunches of grapes. Happy growing to you all!
Chica Andaluza 