Little tomatoes

My first tomatoes are starting to grow!

Blooming!

My tomato plants are blooming! Looking forward for some baby tomatoes pretty soon!

Caldo verde

My cabbages (kale) are growing very well and I've finally made some 'caldo verde'. The recipe is very easy. In fact, there are various recipes. This one here is pretty close to what I did.

Plants up-date II

Here's my celeriac! My only celeriac ('aipo' in Portuguese). It survived! I've given-up on the carrots and rucola, it just didn't work...


I've put the tomatoes in a larger pot. I've used some straws to hold them up but as they are growing so fast I'll need to get something else...

The cabbages are great, big and strong. Here you can actually also see a little carrot, but it's so tinny, I don't think that I will get carrots this year...

And finally the parsley. I've already used it to make an omelet!

Plants up-date

After a short holiday in Portugal my plants keep growing well... thanks Alex for taking care of them!

Here are the ones that are doing better. The tomatoes are ready to be changed to a bigger pot. I've already moved the cabbages and the parsley and I've put them outside in my balcony. Now the weather is getting much warmer and hopefully they'll survive the change.

I've also planted carrots, rucola and celeriac, but they are not doing so well... they're still in the yogurt cups and perhaps they won't be worth a change to larger potts. I'll see, perhaps they just grow slower...

My plants are growing!

I've moved my tomatoes and cabbages from the yogurt cups into some larger pots. They're looking good, although I still have them inside the house. They'll not resist the Dutch weather... rain, strong winds and 7 degrees...

Tomatoes

My tomatoes are growing really fast! I've took some pictures during the weekend (with the camera almost always on the same position) and now I have this nice video to show how much they've grown in just two days.

Crocus

I took these photos today in The Hague. What a lovely carpet made of yellow, white and purple crocus. It must be spring!

Crops

I've started to grow some seeds last week. For the moment I'm using yogurt cups. I hope that when the weather gets better and warmer they'll will be ready to move to my balcony into some bigger pots. Rucola was the first one to germinate... I just don't understand why they all started to grow on the edge of the cup. If I remember well, I've put the seeds on the centre, odd... anyway, they're looking good and they're the first to pop out. Next was the cabbage, Portuguese 'couve galega' also looking good and strong. I'm really looking forward to some 'caldo verde' which is a traditionally Portuguese soup made with this cabbage. I cannot find it here in The Netherlands and I miss it. João also has his own yogurt cups, we're trying to determine who his the best grower. Time will tell! I'll be making some more post of the other crops sooner.

My Valentine's Munny

My Valentine's Munny: he's blue when it's cold and pink when it's warmer... A project made by João, read all about it in his blog. Cute as cute can be!