Oh Joy! The first of the real ‘summer’ crops went into the ‘huerto‘ this week.  I couldn’t help smiling with anticipation at all the tomatoes, peppers, chili’s, cucumbers and aubergines to come.  These are the real Mediterranean vegetables of summer and the reason I garden. More of all these will go in again in another [...]

[ad#co-1] Last autumn I planted some parsley in amongst the strawberry plants in a bid to stop them dieing off completely in the cold weather.  This was to be my living cover to overwinter the strawberries without having to worry about fleece or keeping straw in place through the windy winter.  I thought this would [...]

[ad#co-1] Well at last I’m up to date with my veggie year plan.  After a trip to town, in smart non-muddy clothes, proper shoes and no dogs in toe I came home to do some serious planting. It doesn’t matter if I approach Mr Bitem our purveyor of fine veggie plugs with a categorical list [...]

Vegetable Growing in Spain – Weeding I’ve been weeding the vegetable plots each morning this week so thought I’d mention it here. Anyone gardening in Spain will quickly find how very different the soil here is to that back home.  For a start there often isn’t much of it, bedrock seeming much more popular!  And [...]

Well I had a lovely time in Wales seeing family & friends but wow is it good to be home!  It’s not just that its sunnier and a bit warmer – its just great to be on the mountain with all my own projects to potter around with. Saturday was the first full day at [...]

Well, its all change on the huerto this week. The tomato plants have finally be pulled up and replaced with more broad beans – I don’t think you can ever have too many really.  The tomato plants were starting to look pretty bedraggled and as its cooling down on the mountain I don’t imagine there [...]