Category: Gardening

Eating local

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For our dinner menu, we have Grouse caught by Vince, with some fresh garden vegetables – swiss chard, kale, and onion tops.

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For our brunch menu, we have poached eggs topped with garden kale and chard sauteed in lemon and butter, with a garnish of onion tops and cilantro.

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In other garden news, our rapini bolted. Bolting is pretty common up here due to the long days and hot temperatures in the summer. The pollinator insects were loving it, but we trimmed it back to give more space to the other plants in the garden.

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Our little cauliflowers are starting to grow:

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And the leafy greens are still doing great:

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Garden harvest

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Faye’s been away in the bush, paddling one of the least-visited rivers in the world. Meanwhile, I’ve been gardening.

Garden Progress, 5th July 2017
Garden Progress, 5th July 2017

I’d say the garden is doing pretty well. Mostly all green stuff though, the tomatoes and peppers didn’t make it.

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Still, it makes for some tasty snacking. I’ve started chopping off leaves and eating them.

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Anyone know what you’re meant to do with rapini? It’s the long stalks with brocoli-like heads, some of which are flowering in this picture.

 

Garden Progress Pics

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June 1 (planting day):

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June 10:

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June 21:

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The winners and losers: Our tomato and zucchini plants started out really well, but have been struggling over the past few weeks. This is likely due to the cooler nighttime temperatures in Tulita: despite the warm days, it still often drops below 10°C at night. The tomatoes look like they may be lost, but the zucchini has started sprouting new leaves, so hopefully will make a comeback. Our pepper plants have suffered from the same problem – they started growing really well initially and then just kind of fizzled. We’ll have to make some kind of greenhouse next year for our cold-intolerant plants. On the other hand, all our green leafy vegetables are doing great! The kale and swiss chard are booming, and I’m going to be honest that I’m not quite sure what the rest of those leafy plants are (notably the huge one on the left and the other leafy ones in the bottom right). Some have little broccoli-like growths, so maybe cauliflower or rapini? Some of the others might be in the cabbage family; maybe kohlrabi. In any case they’re doing well. Also, the onions are coming up nicely, and the pea plant has its first pea!