Our volunteers’ and our yurt guest’s children enjoy making their own pizzas for dinner, with fresh-picked ingredients from the garden Can’t wait until we get our bread oven built, it was waaaay too hot to be cooking them in the gas oven in the kitchen!
Posts under ‘Gardens & Produce’
Harvest Day
We’ve only been picking what we need to eat every day, so today as we have Emma here helping we’re having a harvesting and preserving day. Here’s what we picked: So we’ve got a lot of ratatouille to make and tomatoes to bottle today. Matt also harvested 3 frames from the beehives, giving us over [...]
Summer Bounty (almost)
We are just on the edge of summer abundance, with a basket of veg coming out of the garden every day, but not yet enough to start preserving for the winter. Tomatoes are starting to reach full size, but not yet ripening. When they do, it looks like we will be awash with them (hopefully). [...]
Pixie Yurt New Beds (for plants!)
Inga has made some new beds for herbs outside the pixie yurt which are looking lovely. Plus there is a new hammock on the terrace which makes it a perfect spot for a person who wants to get away from it all (and there are 11 of us on the quinta at that moment!)
Beautiful White Lilly
Its in full bloom, simply spectacular:
Baby Tomatoes & Courgettes
Just a few photos of the baby tomatoes and courgettes. We have loads of tomato plants in this year, of many different colours and varieties. Its exciting to see what shaped and coloured fruits appear. We also have about 25 courgette plants, at various stages of development, hopefully giving us plenty over a long period [...]
Look at this Beauty!
This pumpkin is already the size of a melon, and visibly growing with each day. I think it is a Big Max variety, that can grow to 500 kilos!
Something Has Been Eating My Onions!
Moles, voles? Something well and truly munched their way through this onion! I don’t mind, as long as they leave some for us!
Horse Manure Compost
Good things about Horse Manure Maurice and Daan certainly do their job here on the quinta by providing us with their manure. Animal dung has been used for centuries as a fertiliser, as it improves the soil structure so that it holds more nutrients and water, and becomes more fertile. It encourages soil microbial activity [...]
Strawberry Season has started
We are very happy
