A bright and sunny day saw me planting out more beans, green ones this time, and some flowering broccoli that we bought at the market this morning. Every thing is growing quite well now and the broad beans are fully in flower. I’ve had to shift some of the wild plants that we are not using for food in order to have space for planting out the oca which has become quite big and beautiful now (it’s a vegetable though :-)) The garden is producing so much wild food at the moment that I did not even sow or plant, just comes growing there, and we are using it all in soups and other dishes. I harvested almost the last of the spinach from last year. The English marigolds, also in their second year, are flowering absolutely amazingly and beautiful. I do recommend growing lots of marigolds, not only are they beautiful and vibrant but one can make marigold oil to use all year round. I grow them in between vegetables. The oca plants have to be earthed up just like potato plants, I did that too today, it is a big experiment, never grown those before. And finally the bitter gourd is doing very well and tomorrow they will be put in their permanent place for the summer, I believe they become very large and need to be kept inside as not hot enough here in this climate, so inside I will let them trail, I have decided on a pot and I am very curious what they will be like and if I will get fruit. Much to do in the next few days!
Above: Lady’s mantel early morning.
Above: flowers on my aubergine plant.
Above: Lady’s mantel and chives, and the flowers on the broad bean plants.
Above: A nice buttercup among the vegetables, but this is the only wild plant that I pull up from between the vegetables.
Above: The oca plant now earthed up, and glorious English marigolds.
Above: Newly planted out bean, broccoli and rhubarb. And one of the thousand dandelions finished flowering.
Above: The bitter gourd doing great, lovely to see it grow so well and holding my breath!