Garden love

Guess, what we have been eating since a couple of days?

Yes! Our first home-grown radishes are ready and soooo tasty!

Lessons learnt though: don’t grow a hundred radishes at the same time and believe half of them not gonna make it. Otherwise, Monday: radish with salt for lunch. And with vinegar for dinner. Tuesday: radish with salad. Wednesday: radish with lamb. Thursday: radish with steak. Friday………..

It all started pretty much 9 weeks ago with the corona lockdown. All of a sudden we had time. A lot of time. A perfect time for gardening! Time for growing red radishes (and chili’s, spinach, carrots, beans, rucola, lettuce, basil, leek, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes…) in our garden.

A seed.

Seedling sprouts.

Seedlings.

It works! They grow!

It feels very gratifying taking a plant through its whole life cycle.

Is there a nicer place to grow?

After sometime we moved them to a new home: hubby’s self-build raised bed (a former TV transportation box from China…).

We watched them grow. Daily. With excitement & big surprise. I guess we didn’t expect them all to grow. And we appreciated how lovely the silence of growing things is. That’s how we felt for the past 9 weeks.

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. Don’t they look artistic (well, maybe the shape is a bit weird)?

Patience missing: maybe harvested too early.

There’s kind of a competitiveness going on. Between sister & brother and neighbors. In a good way. Exchanging photos of seedlings 🙂 It feels good.

Leek, spring onion, red pepper, chilies, mushrooms, potatoes, lettuce, sunflowers, lavender, poppies, tulips (2021)… to follow. Cannot wait! And in-between we may work on more radishes…