I love it when the plans are starting to come together. After a couple days of rain and some sun pouring out over the allotment, the first signs of life are really starting to come back.
What am I saying, first signs of life? Already the first stuff is harvest ready and I am super thrilled with a couple of these little successes. Let's have a look with all that there is to find.
Mint
Starting with also this happy little accident I am having this creeping wild mint coming through from the neighbors. Now I know this eventually will take over your garden, but in this case...I am not really minding that. I am using the mint in the tea as well and let's face it...There is no such thing as too much mint growing around.
My friend is a bee keeper and together with some of that local honey into the tea, that is just a treat.
Time to cut some down and see if it will grow some sidebranches becoming into a bush. (and yeah, still making sure it doesn't take over the entire garden just to be sure
Oregano
Actually for me the most importing thing to have in the garden is havinf fresh herbs. I really hate getting just a miniature bush in the supermarket and get ripped off for that. So having these at home in abundance is really the thing you just always want.
This fresh oregano was a super nice find coming from last year actually!
I had a small bush standing there last summer and I didn't really pay any attention to it during winter time. It looked sad in the cold days and I wasn't entirely sure that I would start to do anything when it was getting warmer.
Boy I was wrong with this. Oregano grows like a mad man and there is no amount of fresh pasta that I can make to harvested all of this. I wonder if people are preserving this as well?
Because there is so much growing that I need to look into that. Maybe dry some oregano and make powder of it to also have some in winter time. But this fresh version is really something else!
Radish
Not every planting is a winner and I really think gardening is good to learn in getting risk/reward from this. I mean, for some reason some stuff just doesn't work, especially in the beginning of the season when everything is still small and fragile and you don't need a lot to also kill the small seedlings in there.
So I planted some radish for a feel-good moment. This stuff is ready to harvest in amount a month and needs like zero taking care of it.
Pop it into the cold ground, make sure there is some water going on and boom...This is literally after 30 days. Not a bad score at all right?
It looks like these guys are more and more ready for harvest so I guess I will eat them this week. Perfect for some pickled radish as a little side dish if you ask me, because you don't need a lot of them for that.
So what is still in the making?
Not everything is all ready for harvest. You need to have stuff going so there is always something to do.
These snow peas are growing like there is no tomorrow and I really hope this time they will be tall enough before slug season starts.
They are already like 30 centimeter high at the moment and have a lot of leaves so I think we are good with this. Also the first flowers in there have arrived and I am debating if I should pinch the flowers out so that the plant has more energy to grow or if I just will be happy with a first little harvest in a while.
I am leaning towards the latter because with the size of that it has no already, it means there is enough to come later on!
I also started growing some paprika seeds from an old paprika a while back. The seedlings were outside against a warm wall, but with the size that they have now it looks like the are ready for some more sunlight.
So it was transplanting time to the full ground. I haven't grown paprikas as yet before, and since these came from the supermarket, I am just very curious what will come out eventually.
They look strong and decent sized for the transplant, so I am quite confident that this will work out eventually.
Looking at everything in total, I am very happy with what is going on at the moment in the garden. It looks like the early starting of stuff in february is starting to pay off if it continues to grow like this!
Make more food yourself!!