After the rain!
Yesterday it rained. Nothing much, just a passing shower. Right after it stopped, I got out in the garden. I like being outside after the rain. Everything is clean, the dust has been washed away and the colors are more vivid. So I took my camera along and took a few shots.
It is a small garden, about 100 m2 (1000 sq ft more or less) but it provides plenty of food every year. When I moved in this house 4 years ago there were a few trees and grape vines and I have built some raised garden beds for our veggies. I use no chemical fertilizer or insecticidal so the growth is not impressive and I have occasional loss by insects but the reward of pure food is much bigger.
The summer veggies are just beginning to produce, let’s take a look!
That’s all folks :)
I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did!
Thank you for coming along and if you want to know more about me you can go here.
This was my answer to the question at the end of this post by @llfarms.
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Your garden is amazing!!! Like really amazing. Take it from a farm girl who grew up in a farm of fruits and vegetables :) That fruit you said that you don't know the name? I just checked using your photo and the Cape Gooseberry came up. Pretty fancy huh? I didn't know the name of this as well. In our province, we call it tinu-tinu and this has been one of my favorite fruits ever since :) You have great photos by the way. Great macrophotography!
Thank you so much @filnette for your generous comment, for finding the Cape Gooseberry name and for the resteem :)
Much more than I could ever expect from a new acquaintance!
Blame it on the Cape Gooseberry :) You are very welcome @fotostef. Your post deserves it. Looking forward to more of your posts!
Oh my goodness gracious these photos are stunning! 😍
Your garden looks like it is coming along really well. I would really like to figure out how to grow grapes here but our climate is a bit rough for them. Hopefully when we get the greenhouse up it will open up some possibilities for us. Do you use the grape leaves as well?
Thank you so much for this post! I really enjoyed it ❤️
Thank you very much @llfarms for coming over to check it out! I am really glad that you liked it!
Grape leaves stuffed with rice are a very popular dish in Greece and I even use them raw in my salad the first few weeks that they are tender!
I beleive that grapes can be farmed in a large range of climatological conditions. In Crete the best wine vineyards are at an attitude of around 3.000 ft and I think that I have read about vineyards at 6.000 ft in Colorado, so maybe you should give it a try.
And any way a food forest creates its own microclimate so as the time pass and your trees are getting bigger maybe you’ll have some pleasant surprises :)