Harvest time
What with one thing and another, I haven't been able to spend as much time on my poor little garden as I should have. But in compensation we're having a really old-fashioned Dutch summer, with rain and sunshine following each other in quick succession. And that means that all the greens are growing really well.
One thing I should learn is to thin the vegetables when very young, because then the 'dunsel' -- the thinned-out sprouts are very often still eadible. Carrot seed will not keep a year when the packet has been opened, same with peas and beans. I should have sown the beans a month earlier, too, but with any luck we'll have a find crop in August.
Anyway:
The red year-round lettuce is doing great. We had a nice head on Thursday and another this Sunday. It's leavy, chewy and spicy. I'll save the packet I've found in a Natuurwinkel for next year; and I should plant out the seedlings I've in the window sill, if only there's be a little sunshine one of the odd moments my time isn't full up occupied with something else.
This particular plot I should have seeded in earlier, but I was not sure I didn't want to replace the fencing. It's cheap, ugly and crooked, but has the distinct advantage that the neighbours don't like it. In the end I was too lazy to do work.
The pak choi is flowering spectacularly -- I hope the plant is still eadible, and I mean to make the experiment. Another crop I should have thinned out.
The potatoes were doing so well, growing so much luxuriant leaf that I had to fence them in, but the coriander on the plots next to the potatoes have died anyway. I wonder why -- the potato plant, or the honeysuckle.
The herb plot is a mess. This is a weird mixture of sage, oregano and rue.
"Haverwortel" is an old Dutch vegetable -- I haven't got a clue as to its English name. It seems to do well in a small spot with radish in between, a buddeleia growing over it and an old Christmas tree that we're going to chop this Christmas.
The beetroot I thinned out this Sunday and used the marble-sized beets to spice up the lettuce. Delicious -- and very, very red. We all had pink tongues.
This is the price head of lettuce we had last Sunday.
And that's the lot...