I really don't have much (almost no) experience in gardening ^^
I studied a lot about Permaculture a while ago, but only the theory. So I was really happy when the owner of the off-grid homestead we're house-sitting right now offered us to start the garden for him in spring!
I'm so glad about this opportunity, I really want to learn this! I hope to have a garden on my own one day and grow food for my family :-)
On our last tour to the market we bought some seeds. We haven't done any research beforehand, we basically just grabbed some vegetable seeds, that we thought would be nice to have ^^
Two different varieties of lettuce, leek, beet roots and courgette.
Then about two weeks ago we had a some really warm days and it totally felt like spring. So one day we prepared the garden beds and did a bit of research on the seeds we had bought to know how deep to sow them and so on.
We read that lettuce is easy to plant and good for beginners, so that was pleasant to know ^^
And for the first time in my life I planted vegetable seeds, so exciting!
Yeah, but we are obviously not quite familiar with the Bulgarian Mountain weather.
A few days later it got super cold again and we had frost at night and even snow ^^
So that was that. I don't think any of the seeds have survived this.
Plan B now was to pre-grow the plants in little pots on the windowsill. We should have done this in the first place. The owner of the house even recommended that, but it really seemed like spring was here already!
So now the little plants are living happily and safe and sound in their pots by the window.
A friend who is living nearby told us it would be fairly safe to plant them in the garden by the end of April, so we'll see how big they have grown until then.
For now the lettuce is doing pretty well (the cute little seedlings in the first picture) and I can already see the tiny leek plants working their way out of the soil :-)
So far gardening is really exciting! I enjoy caring for the little plants and seeing them grow. Can't wait to replant them in the garden beds to see them grow even bigger!
I hope we are still around when the first lettuce is ready for harvesting. I read that lettuce is pretty quick in growing, so we'll see :-)
Thanks for reading! <3
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