As you could see by the title of this blog; my garden was quite a wilderness.
We have been on holiday abroad for the past three weeks and the plants have been growing quite well when we were away.
During our three week absence our neighbors looked after our garden. At least; I asked them if they could water our garden if it didn't rain for a couple of days in a row. And that just happened in the first week. It was sunny, warm and dry.
In the weeks after that it was more volatile. There were days with both sun and rain.
When we got back from our holiday last friday I was shocked by what I saw. The complete kitchen garden was overgrown. The mulch that I had applied earlier did a really good job since there weren't a lot of weeds. It was all that I had planted that has grown.
I really had to do some pruning to do...
The three tomato plants have grown to over a meter and are carrying dozens of tomatoes. They are still small and green, but they still have the time to grow.
The sweet peppers are also a lot bigger then before we left. I haven't spotted any peppers yet. Hopefully they will start growing soon.
I had already read that zuccini plants grow fast en can get very large and that it's advisable to remove some of the big leaves to give the flowers some space (so the bees can reach them easier) and the plant can give more of it's energy to the fruits.
When we left there were no beans at all, so these have grown in just three weeks. I think we can have our first harvest. That will be the first vegetables from our own garden.
When I moved some of the big leaves of one of the zucchini plants I spotted quite a large zucchini.
It was actually bigger than the ones you can buy in the supermarket here.
Another plant that had a growth spurt is the cucumber. Three weeks ago the cucumbers were just two centimeters, but now there were a couple of them that were over 20 centimeters.
I cut the largest from the plant to have a taste. It looks a bit different than the ones in the supermarket, but I had already seen that in some Youtube video's I watched. The taste wouldn't be different I was told.
And they were right. It tastes just like a regular cucumber.
After pruning the zucchini plants there was quite a bit more space in the garden. I noticed a lot of the mulch has disappeared, so I need to apply a new layer soon.
I told my neighbors that they should pick some raspberries when they were in my garden, but they told me they couldn't find any. Which is quite strange since we were picking a handful every day.
But when we got back I noticed that there were a lot of raspberries, but they aren't ripe yet. It looks like they have been waiting for us to return 😀
The blueberries are slowly turning from green into blue. But they still need some time before we can pick them.
Our apple tree is doing well. Some of the apples have really grown quite a bit. But other still remained quite small. I do wonder why some apples grow quicker than others.
I also spotted one with some scratches on it. I thing this is done by birds, so I will cover it with a net tomorrow.
I started with this kitchen garden last year. The first experiment were no success. This mostly had to do with the fact that I started after the summer.
This year I started seeding inside and planted the seedlings outside when theyvwere big enough. It is so cool to see that everythingbhas grown so nicely and that we can even harvest some crops.
I didn't know I would like this gardening thing so much.
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