Hey plant lovers!
During some days in the Promised Land, we have been blessed with so much rain.
Incredible amount of water is flowing down the mountain hills, creating beautiful streams and waterfalls, also blocking our road, totally overflow down in the village.
In the garden, some carrots were damaged but the vegetable beds help slowing down the speed of the water flow and retain some water on them.
Today after rain left, I bring you an intimate walk through our garden, where we spend the most time of the day, healing.
Early in the morning, we wake up in a foggy mist, "el rocío de la mañana", bringing so much water in the atmosphere which the plants love.
It was not need yet this year to water the garden.
Magic entrance to the garden
We placed the gutter there until we install it because water was entring in the basement very rapidly.
View from the balcony
First stone bed, left, with carrots,onion,garlic,lettuce, nasturtium and calendula.
Nasturtium
Garlic, Carrot, calendula
Calendula
Second raised bed, left side on the picture, sunflowers, salads, chard and nasturtium.
In the raised bed close to the wall of the house, the old grape is raising again in between sunflowers, potatoes,
different flowers, fennel and perennials like sage, lavender and thyme.
In the white barril, we made tea from nettles. Leave it rest for about 2 weeks and mix it with 10 times water or depence how strong it is, and water the plants with it.
Fennel in between flowers
Sage
Thyme
We continue the tour down to the vegetable beds.
In the right stone bed, one level down of the other stone beds, we planted chili, peppers companion with spinach, majoram and calendula.
View from the stone bed from down surrounded of wild flower and lemon mint.
In the left side of the garden, there are 2 row of carrots in the middle, and tomatoes with basilicum in the outside of the bed.
We created a construction with poles in tension and ropes tie to them that the tomatoe plants can climb.
The 2 rows down of the tomates have some Brassicas family (different kind of cabbages, coliflower and broccoli) with lettuce, spinach and rucula.
These last rows mentioned, we were harvesting greens for around 1 month so some of them are exploting, made flowers for later collect seeds for next year.
Now we move to the middle part of the garden.
Upper rows of beans climbing in the sticks and in between tomatoes, salad, coriander and spinach.
In the most right side of the beans bed, we planted 3 sisters (corn, zucchini or pumpkin for ground cover and in some Amaranth or beans.
Amaranth, corn and zucchini,
all full of mud from the heavy rain.
The down rows of this middle section are planted with Brassica Family and in between salads, chard, spinach, radishes and parnips.
This is a cool area of the garden, which the plants love.
The last part of the garden tour, is the potatoe fields located in the most right side of the garden.
Topinambur around the compost
Parsley
All the companion planting was previously study and the garden organiced and planned ahead.
At the moment, in the greenhouse is coming more seedlings from Brassicas and many more tomatoes.
We are building these days a new greenhouse to host all the tomatoes we still need to plant and some herbs companion them.
All the pictures are made by the Promised Land unless mentioned.
Hope you enjoy the intimate walk through the magical garden and it inspire you in your garden journey!
Thank you for the garden, it is healing us
Soon coming more....of the Promised Land🌳🍃🌼
Sat nam