Garden: update
I’ve brought a variety of fresh produce from my last visit to my hometown: green salad, green and yellow beans, the last of green peas, the first cucumber, pepper and carrots, a head of young cabbage, a bunch of parsley, thyme, chives and dill. I enjoy working in the garden, it relaxes me and most of the time I get to chat with neighbors who also come to their gardens, we exchange the news and talk about our plants, sometimes also trading one’s produce for the other one’s. This way I learn about new plants, herbs too, and from time to time I get some new recipe to try – like I said once, the things one learns by gardening!
Due to high humidity levels and heavy storms on a daily basis, our garden doesn’t look as splendid as it used to in the past years – humidity attracts all sorts of pests and hundreds of greedy red snails, which, along with devastating storms, make a lot of damage to the garden produce. Plants in desperate need for sunny, dry weather -like tomato, for example- are doing specially badly, as you can see on the photo below.
The long-awaited, first mature tomato - rotten. Note what the constant rainy conditions do to this plant
The green and yellow bean plants are showing a sign of premature rotting as well - at least 3 weeks too early
The cucumber plants are opening flower after flower... but there's hardly a sign of any cucumber on the way
Well, the cabbages are doing quite fine (ignoring some occasional bites from unknown culprit). I pulled out the biggest of the heads to take with me and can't wait to make it into salad
After pulling the cabbage out, we keep it in a cool place (not fridge) for 2 days with its root and big hard leaves attached. Afterwards, the cabbage is ready to be chopped and eaten. This is the way my great-grandma used to treat it and apparently it’s essential for the cabbage to mellow properly prior to consuming.
Parsley, too, looks more than great. It is a real pleasure for the eyes!
This herb has been growing wildly in our garden for years. It's called savory, or "bean spice"
I hope these grapes continue to do fine - unlike last year, when we witnessed an uncommon event: the falling of immature berries, leaving us with only a few untouched clusters (climate change thing??)
This is dill, a herb "married to cucumbers" - that is to say, if you plant it in the vicinity of cucumbers, you ensure them a healthy growth
Pumpkin
And here we have a pumpkin plant of origins unknown – the wind must have spread some seeds onto the garden and they’ve just started sprouting and growing and now they are enormous! I’ve never seen this sort of pumpkin, however I believe they are of the ornamental kind. Am I right/wrong?
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