Hello everyone,
I think my last post in the community was in the year of 2022, but here I am now to share with you some of our garden updates. The truth is last year we didnt have a lot in our garden because we were very often not at home, even for weeks; so you can imagine it's not possible having a garden in full summer and not being able to take care of it.
This year is a lot different. I have huge hope and determination to grow as many vegetables and leafy greens I can, mostly inside our greenhouse, which is not something that I shared with you already :D. Here are a few things about it.
We finished our Greenhouse last Fall, in November. It's not heated, at least not for now but we want to use Solar Panels and a source of heat in the future.
We built Raised Beds for our greenhouse, I think it's a lot more easier and convenient to work this way and there are a lot of nice benefits having raised beds such as better soil quality for example, because you can control the soil composition. You can add your compost over there and make your own mix to grow your vegetables. Also you can have an optimal organization and delimitation of the plants you're growing.
What I love the most is the accesability and control of bugs and weeds. Working at a height that's comfortable for you makes gardening easier. Also its more easy to protect your harvest from pests and weeds.
We used thick plastic foil, special for greenhouse. I'm curious to see how much time it will last. The structure is made out of iron.
Our Raised Beds are made from Wood , then burned with a torch. My husband used the ancient way of treating the wood, Shou Sugi Ban, being more suitable for a garden and make it last longer.
As you can already see by the photos, our first harvest were some Green Salad, Spinach leafy greens and green onions.
This is what we enjoyed eating from our greenhouse, for the first time! It's quite nice the feeling because we wanted our greenhouse to be ready two years ago but we've had another things in between and didnt manage to finish it. So a BIG Yaaaayyyyy!
I planted only in two beds because we're only at the beginning and I didnt have too many seeds anyways. Yesterday I ordered a nice batch of ecological seeds for legumes, leafy greens and vegetables. I ordered what I could find online, I searched for good quality though and I was happy to find, from what they say, traditional organic seeds, that having been cultivated and multiplied for over 20 years, here in Romania.
I was super excited to harvest the very first green salad leaves from which I made a green salad, with green onions and green garlic. I added salt and pepper, olive oil and lemon juice and that's all. Perfect salad as a side dish next to oven baked sweet potatoes stuffed with mozzarella and bacon.
From the Spinach I harvested last week, me and Caleb made a green smoothie.
Caleb is always happy to use our blender. :))
Here's the recipe:
You can replace the macadamia with almonds or other nuts, whatever you have at hand. I love macadamias because they have a mild taste and great texture for a smoothie. Also, you can add peaches, kiwi, pears, apples, lemon s to your smoothie. I just used what I 've had in my fridge.
This would be all, folks!
I will share more with you in the future, now I can't wait to receive the seeds and start planting. I'm super obsessed with the thyme, basil and mint I ordered. For some reason, I was always excited to have my own aromatic herbs. I still have green parsley from last year in my yard but that's all what left 😏.
Take care,
missdeli 💚
