Gardening

Since mid March we have started a vegetable garden. As soon as the winter rain came to an end we started digging a plot between the trees that run in the odd piece of land to one side of our garden. After the winter rains the land was soft but not too sticky to dig and after a few hours we had a plot ready for the seeds.

Some friends from Riglia kindly gave us some young lettuce plants they had spare to help us. We were also given some seeds from a taverna owner in Agios Nikolaos together with some leek roots. Now I have never seen this done before, but we have been assured that they will grow, they are the bottom half inch from a leek with the roots still attached. We planted them in a trench and as they start to grow we will earth them up to get the long stalk. If this works can we dig them up, cut the bottom off and start again? Are these ‘perpetual leeks’? We’ll keep you updated on their progress.

We’ve planted:
Lettuce, aubergine, melon, tomato, onion, garlic, cucumber, cabbage, broccoli, dwarf beans, red peppers, zucchini, chilli peppers, beetroot, parsley, coriander.

So far the weather has been kind, not too much heat so with a little watering everything is doing well, just a couple of things that have been slow to germinate.