Posts Tagged ‘vegetable growing in spain’

Garden Diaries – Fruit and Veg

We’ve got a few chores done in the last month.  It’s been lovely doing some springtime stuff, like sowing seeds again.  So what’s occurring on the vegetable plot? Chillis, carrots, peas, spinach and rocket have been sown. Carrots are starting to come up under their polythene quilt. Potato plot dug and seed potatoes bought – [...]

June Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Spain

Planting, Sowing, Harvesting & Other Things To Do in the Vegetable Patch. Sowing in June Nothing to sow! Planting in June Celery Cucumber Lettuce Melon Onions for Pickling Spring Onion Harvesting in June Beetroot Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Courgette Cucumber Lettuce Onion Peas / Mangetout Potatoes Rocket Spring Onion Strawberry Things to do in June Pull [...]

April Guide to Vegetable Growing in Spain

Planting, Sowing, Harvesting & Other Things To Do in the Vegetable Patch. Sowing in April Melon Planting in April Cherry & Plum Tomatoes Courgettes Cucumber Lettuce Spring Onion Harvesting in April Baby Carrots Cabbage Calçots Celery (individual stalks) Lettuce Radish Rocket Spinach Spring Onion Sprouting Broccoli Things to do in April Probably need to start [...]

Veg Diaries – Big Day of Planting

[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 [...]

Veg Diaries – The Dreaded Weeding

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 [...]