Garden journal February - Harvest Season Approaching

When we begin making our garden, our expectations were very different. We had arguments at first where @fenngen said it was more important to build a solid construction, while @choli insisted eating high quality food was just as relevant. In the end we've pushed forward in both fronts and the truth is we enjoy a lot going to our garden, it is one of the moments in the day that give us much happiness.

So let us show you a bit of what we've been able to grow this year:

Our legumes, some growing, others drying. Those that are flowering and giving fruit are one of the last waves of seeding we did. It was a good idea to seed a bit of them on each crescent moon as now we've been able to harvest in small amounts every now and then, which works perfect for us as we don't have much storage room yet.

Upper left are bored beans, and below pea flowers. Upper right some lentils which were an experiment as we just threw them around without even burying them (they were commercial lentils for cooking not seed packages so we didn't have much hope). Below is a pole bean pod that is the first one we've gotten due to the frosts harming the plants several times. @fenngen ran excitedly to point it out to @choli, but it fell upon touch which was a big bummer for both 😅

Here is our brassicas section with a nice broccoli popping up on the upper left, then to the right a cabbage, and on the bottom a kale and some radish seedpods starting to dry up for harvest.

Above, you can see the zucchini blooming. These were the last ones we planted, and we were amazed at how fast they grew. Also the frost hit them hard, but the following days they already had new leaves growing. So far they have not given female flowers, which are the ones that give us their fruit, but we are happy to see it blooming just the same.

In the one below you can see some carrots blooming on the left and on the right they are already going to seed. These were old carrots that were buried to see what would happen, and all of them began to give flowers and seeds, the experiment was a success 🙌

Close up of the zucchini flower.

In this region people only grow zucchini in greenhouses but we wanted to see if we could get at least some small fruits outdoors, and even better some seeds that could begin adapting to this climate. We don't know yet if it will work, but at least the plants are thriving.

Out potatoes have suffered a lot with the frosts but they manage to get back on their feet. We've already harvested quite a few by digging under the plant but without the need to kill it, so hopefully they will keep on feeding us for a while 😁

These chives were small transplants from the garden of @choli's parents. One can cut little leaves and they will continue to grow, so it is a very good food that can be in your garden for almost the whole year here in these lands.

On the right you can see beets and behind the borages with their flowers 🌺 there are some beetroots that have bloomed on us, supposedly they stop growing if this happens, and when they bloomed at first we cut them... but after a while they were already blooming again, so we decided to leave it in its process and we will take advantage of gathering seed to the next season.

Finally, a selfie in the garden which was intended for the #gardenjournal challenge but we were to late to participate. Better luck next time hehe.

Thanks for stopping by, see you next time 🥰