Our complete list of vegetables growing: now 38!

Many vegetables:

• Tomatoes (different varieties), 11 plants
  
• Eggplant, 1 plant
• Peppers, 3 plants
• Cucumber, 3 plants

• Pumpkin (muskat provence), 2 plants
• Zucchini, 3 plants (now blooming)
  

• Spinach, several plants
• Lettuce (different varieties), several plants
• Rucula, several plants
  
• Swiss-chard (two varieties), several plants

• Broccoli, several plants (very beautiful, still untouched by pests)
  
• Kohlrabi (purple variety), several plants
• Leek, several plants
• Garlic, several plants
• Carrots (including purple haze variety), several plants
• Radish, several plants
• Beets, several plants
• Hamburg Parsley (roots), two plants
  
• Celery, several plants
• Celeriac, a few still small plants (crop was mainly eaten by slugs)
• Chicory, a few still small plants (crop was mainly eaten by slugs)
  

• Potatoes and black potatoes, several plants
• Beans (different varieties), several plants
• Peas, a few plants (crop has failed)
• Chick peas, a few plants
• Lentils, a few plants (crop is doing badly, maybe due to cool weather)

Alternative and perenial (rare) vegetables:

• Good King Henry, 1 plant
• Yacon, 1 plant
• Tiger Nuts, several plants (delicious tubers!)
  
• Chinese artichokes, several plants
• Jerusalem artichokes (tupinamps), 4 plants
  
• Skirret, 2 plants
  
• Peanuts, 4 plants (they struggle against the cool climate)
  
• Sweet potatoes, 1 plant (now sprouting indoors)
  
• Strawberry spinach, 3 plants
  

Berries:

• Blueberry
• Raspberry
• Strawberry (two varieties)
• Elderberry
  

Herbs:

• Strawberry mint (delicious smell!)
  
• Savory
• Wormwood
• Thyme
• Lavanda
• Parsley
• Chives
• Catnip
• Lemon verbena (delicious tea!)
• Lemon grass
  
• Lemon balm
  
• Bergamot herb (still very small)
• Coriander (still small, slugs have eaten a lot of them)
  

Citrus trees:

• Lemon tree
• Bergamot tree

Flowers:

• (To be updated soon)

Things that we currently try to grow:

• Quinoa (sprouts but then fails, since it requires hot weather)
• Millet (we couldn't sprout it yet)
• Rice (sprous but then fails to grow)
• Mung beans (still very small since it requires hot weather)
• Salsify (sadly, it has rotted, or eaten by slugs, last week)
• Wheat, Oats
  
• Amaranth
  
• Cumin
  
• Flaxseed
• Soy beans (maybe they will fail to grow, due to the cool climate)

Overall, we have about 38 edible vegetables species growing!!
In our small city garden, that had only 3-4 hours of direct sunlight.

We experiment with a lot of biodynamic planting, and companion planting.
This week, we will apply a nettle liquid-composted fertilizer that is an extremely rich one!

Click on more photos to see!

Strawberry spinach


Chinese artichokes

Current photos

Lovely flowers...


Lemon grass, lemon verbena, lemon bergamot, and a baby lemon tree!


Zucchini, growing in a container full of compost: how happy it is!!


From garden to dinner room!


Row of summer flowers... Yeah!


Tiger nuts sprouting: one of our major permaculture achivements!


Swiss chard: anyone can grow this, even in a shadow garden!


Beautifullll blue and rose flowers! We want butterflies and bees, remember?


Our baby fast-growing pumpkin plant: she grows 5 cm every day!!


Our Yacon: it is a tropical plant but can be grown in Europe, and it gives a huge ammount of edible tubers, and better, than potatoes, no pests, huge yields, and is perenial!

Permacultura no jardim: dicas de plantação, vegetais perenes...

Agora que estão belos dias de Primavera aqui, já começamos a ver algumas plantas que entretanto germinaram.
Rúculas, nabos, alfaces, rabanetes e ervilhas.

Plantei também tomates e aqui vão uma dica:
- Semear tomates, pimentos e courgettes (plantas que adoram calor) numa caixa de plástico, de iogurte ou de outra comida, com metade composto, metade terra turfosa. Deixar numa janela ao sol, regando todas as manhãs, e meter uma tampa de plástica transparente por cima. Funciona como uma mini-estufa.
Gera-se tanto calor que as minhas sementes germinaram em dois dias!!!!

• Semeámos acelgas, coriandro, espinafres, aipo, couve rábano, cenouras, grão, lentilhas, alguns cereais, beterrabas, batatas e chicória radicchio.

• Semeei também uma série de flores silvestres que atraem borboletas e abelhas (comprei no horto)

E uma série de vegetais perenes ou exóticos, como:

• "skirret" (Sium sisarium)
• "jesuralem articrokes" (conhecidos como tupinampos)
• "chinese articrokes"
• batata negra (uma raridade que encontrámos aqui no mercado em Viena)
  
• gengibre
• "tiger nuts" (Cyperus esculentus) (deixar de noite em molho)
• "salsify" (Tragopogon pratensis)
• rabanetes negros
• salsa tuberosa
  

Claro que a plantação foi feita com composto e misturando as espécies, flores e vegetais, para atrair biodiversidade e gerar um equílibro e harmonia natural.



Nota, o jardim tem apenas cerca de 1-3 horas de luz por dia, mas isso não é qualquer impedimento para crescer os vegetais. Na verdade, o sol ao bater nos prédios aquece muito o local, gerando um micro-clima de calor, semi-sombra e humidade, sem vento, que é ideal para crescer a horta. Usei até agora apenas uma pequena parte do jardim, cerca de 20 metros quadrados, mas parece mais que suficiente para crescer o que mencionei acima.


Apenas me lamentei não ter plantado ainda o sistema "no digging", que envolve usar sob o relvado uma camada de jornais seguida de um mulching de folhas ou palha, e seguida de uma terceira camada de composto. Mas irei experimentar hoje!

Por último, verifiquei de novo, que semear os vegetais após a lua nova é muito mais eficiente, do que após a lua cheia. A germinação é muito mais rápida.