There some successes in the garden every now and then that you just have to acknowledge how cool they are. I consider myself still a beginner gardner and I make a lot of mistakes still.
Not all of these mistakes are not really always 'my' fault specifically, of course the weather gods also play a big role in what kinds of success you have in what you are doing.
But also I kind of refuse to buy a lot of stuff for my garden. That perfect soil that everyone brags about to get the best successes which you buy in garden centers. I refuse to buy this because somewhere I believe that plants were always able to fix themselves. Why couldn't that be possible in my garden as well?
So I make fertilizer from all kinds of stuff. Of course from the worm scraps that I have written about dozens of times already, but also water from banana peel, leaves from the woods that I leave in the soil for months to dissolve and just mixing stuff all together. Also the 'not perfect' compost which is way too wet I bury it in my allotment in the soil in the early spring and that will also eventually do something right?
Sure, I don't do any tests to see if there is enough potassium in the soil or enough nitrogen, but I guess the results of what you are growing will also tell you what is going on right?
Honestly, I don't know if this is the best way, but hey...it works for me and it is cheap and stuff is still growing. I guess something is going right in there?
About a month ago I was writing about my first harvest of sweet peas in the garden and how easy it is to grow them in this climate once you have them going.
The early spring was dry and there was not a slug to be seen so these guys had a decent chance to actually grow bigger before now the season with the slugs has started since I had started raining again.
Harvesting was super easy as it was literally just cutting off the peas in the pod and waiting for the bush to make new flowers and fruits again. I didn't have to anything on the pollination side of these plants as there are enough flying things here in the area luckily (the bramble has flowers at the moment attracting enough flying things)
Actually I am at my third harvest already in a month which I consider as a really good deal. I think I was a bit late with this harvest as the sweet peas are a bit thicker already and that makes them a bit more bitter and a bit more chewy.
On these ones you really have to pull out the strings on the sides before eating them as those ones are really not easy to chew on. Literally every blog will tell you this 'harvest them when they are young for better taste' and that is a wise advice actually I have experienced now.
The plants are still growing taller and still making flowers so guess there is still more harvest in the making which I consider a super nice surprise and my best producing plant up until now.
I still have a lot of seedlings of tomato, courgette and tons of different peppers that I had just potted over in the allotment and into bigger pot that might give some fruit that hopefully start to do stuff in the very near future.
Let's wait and see, but this was at least the first success of the year already!
