A Garden Update, Part 4!

What has been happening in our garden the last weeks?

We have 2 aubergine plants & have had 10 aubergines already! yes, yes!

And our 3 Cavolo Nero kale are doing really well. We took them out from under the netting to let them grow bigger & bigger, you see?

2 Cavolo nero kale plants!

Cavolo Nero in Dutch: Palmkool, also called Black kale is originally from Tuscany, Italy! We have 3 plants that I grew from seed indoors. The other plant is still is under the net, on the other side. We are going to set it free soon! ;)

We have had the pleasure of eating a few leaves already! Divine, a bit bitter & very delicious too! :) Kale is very healthy too! We cleaned it, cut out the big nerve & sliced the leaves & fried them in a bit of a fruity evoo, some spring onions, garlic & a bit of red-hot chili pepper,..Yum! We always take the leaves from the bottom. It is also great in a soup with white beans. They are also very yummy sautéed in olive oil & served with vegan chorizo or real chorizo sausages.

What else has happened in our garden???

One of 5 courgette plants!

We have 5 courgette plants, 2 green one’s called Black beauty & 3 yellow courgette plants! Recently, they have produced lots & lots of courgettes( zucchini!). I think we lost count. I think we have had in total already + 70. We have given many away to our friends & family! :) So everybody is happy! :)

These photos were from a few weeks ago, now, The New-Zealand spinach plants are even more huge! :) We have taken a few times 3 buckets full of the spinach & you don’t even see that we took it! :) Great, hey?

5 New-Zealand Spinach plants!

This one plant of NZ spinach grows in between of the courgette & pumpkin plants! :)

Here a quick look at the pumpkin-courgette patch! :) We grow 2 Hokkaido pumpkins, 1 Musque de Provence & 2 Butternut Pumpkins! :)

More details on our pumpkins later in the year! We already have 7 Hokkaido pumpkins that are orange in color & have a good size! :) In our plastic conservatory there is a pointed paprika plant. Normally, the colour must be red, but we ate them all 3, just like that. the flavor as awesome tasty, not bitter at all! :(

We have had many purple kohlrabi’s! They were so yummy & sharp in flavor. We lost a few of them because of the critters! :(

We will be sowing them next year! :) So easy to grow too!

Here are the last of our famous very tasty Bolivar red beets! We have had about 56 of them! They were sown between the purple kohlrabi’s! :) We also eat the leaves & stalks! :)