The first of my royal purple & golden sweet #SnowPeas have emerged. I grow the more commonly known green Oregon snow peas too. I love eating #peas - fresh n raw from the garden or cooked.
I have 3 pots of #sorrel#SaladGreens. This is one of them. I started all 3 pots, last June. We've been harvesting from same pots - all through last year to now. They keep coming up, after every harvest. I love eating sorrel - raw or cooked! One of my fave greens to eat.
It's looking fantastic! One of a few that I grew from last year's seeds 😊 We grow a few types of basil, year round. My purple basil hasn't sprouted yet. These are Genova basil plants.
It's proven to be #DroughtResistant, once established. One of very few #plants proven to be resistant to air pollution too. I highly recommend this for #ClimateAction#gardening. It's a gorgeous plant too.
Large #edible#perennial that needs full sun & no shade. As it's namesake, tolerant of high sodium soil & wind resistant - it depends on winds to pollinate hermaphroditic flowers. I recommend this easy to grow #plant, for coastal food gardens.
Trinidad #ScorpionPepper & #CarolinaReaper - 2 of the #HotPeppers varieties that I'm growing this year. I only have 4 of each plant. All are inside my DIY scrap wood greenhouse.
The last of our fall harvest of shallots. I grew about 3.5kg of them last year. These cellar exceptionally well (the remainder are still nice and firm), and I have about 500g left. We used these all winter long. My fave use: as onions for burgers - they're way better than standard white or yellow onions. Also. grew these from seed, which, for onions, is a bit of a process.
All of you reading this in the Northern Hemisphere - if you want to grow food in your garden this summer, or if you want to grow more food, start planning now! Plan well, buy seeds, read about it, and have dreams!
I planted mustard in winter as a green manure crop. It's suggested you chop it in when it flowers but I kept some of it because the bees and I love the flowers and surprise surprise mustard seeds come from mustard plants!
My first harvest of green (yellow and purple) beans! So happy with how these turned out. I'm growing a lot this year and it's always exciting when things work out and you actually get to harvest something in the end. I used seeds from two local places, Hudson Valley Seed Co and Fruition Seeds. Gonna start another planting so that I hopefully have enough to freeze and be able to enjoy them even during the winter.
Made hummus earlier using sorrel from the garden and now I’m stewing #allotment rhubarb to freeze for use in future savoury dishes. I love #GrowingFood