I was busy with a lot of admin stuff in the last weeks and working on this website had to take a step back. So it is only now that I can post the second part about what we harvested in our garden last year.
Produce from below the ground
We planted onions and garlic both last year and the year before that. To my shame, I only just learned that if you want to harvest the big garlic cloves, you need to leave the garlic over the winter and harvest the next year. It is also possible to plan onions in the autumn and leave them over the winter to harvest big onions in the spring.
Potatoes were just a fun, on the whim project. They are cheap enough in the supermarket, but on the other hand they are low maintenance and very fun to get out of the dirt with your kid. We also got some unusual sort of potatoes with red peel and yelowish inside, which we never found in the supermarket. The potatoes we harvested were delicious, probably also due to the satisfaction of having produced them ourselves.
Produce from above the ground
Zucchini are also a low maintenance plant. Once they get going, you just need to water them. They also yield a lot of fruits. We had four zucchini plants and we got more then we can eat. This year I would probably harvest the flowers too and try some recipies.
Our kid loves cucumbers and he ate almost all the cucumbers we got last year.
We planted a lot of chard. This salad goes nicely with spaghetti and it’s very expensive in the supermarket. So we are definetly having it in the garden this year, but maybe only half of the plants.
We also had a bed with just herbs. Parsley dominated it in the end. We also have a lovage plant, which just grows back every year. This one is very prone to plant lice and I will try to find out what to do about it this year. The rosemary plant turned into an uncontrolled bush. We do not like rosemary very much so this year I am not having it again in the garden and I hope I removed all roots properly.
The beans were also a nice surprinse for us given how easy they grow and how much you get from just one plant. They also kept producing until late October. Green beans are not very cheap in the supermarket and sometimes they are just not good (too old, to stringy), so it is worth having them in the garden.
So this concludes the garden reports. I hope this year brings at least half of what we got last year. As we now have a baby in the family, I cannot be as productive as last year. I am thinking to write another post about my goals in the garden for this year, but this is not really my style. But who knows?