What grows in our kitchen garden?
red currants
strawberries
basil
chives
grapes
raspberries
cucumber
bell peppers
parsley
radishes
rosemary
tomatoes
Time for a garden update because the first harvest has arrived, to the great pleasure of the mini-monsters! It is not an overwhelming amount of fruit & veg but it is just a small patch and it is only the beginning.
The grapes will not be ripe until September but the raspberries ripen now with 6 - 8 per day. Both bushes look good!
The bell peppers and tomatoes are next to the raspberry bush. Because that is growing so fanatically they have to wrestle from under it to get a little sunshine. The radishes are nearly done so then we move the tomatoes and bell peppers to that sunny spot.
You see little holes everywhere in the leaves of our plants because we do not use pesticides. Everything is un-sprayed so all critters can enjoy eating with us ;)
The strawberry plant is doing well but it is on its own so 2 to 4 strawberries per 2 - 3 days is not bad and they taste excellent. Red currants are plentiful, we now pick a small cup every day.
The cucumbers are doing great, every day we can pick a few.
The radishes also come up in parts and the kids really like that there are different varieties. But the red-white radish rules, 5 to 1!
All in all we get a lot of fun out of our vegetable garden. The children water the plants, pick the fruit & veg and learn how to weed. Lovely outside, in the sunshine!