The vegetable garden 2020

One of the tasks that begins when spring arrives, especially with the month of May, is the work in the vegetable garden. Having a vegetable garden is a hobby that our father loves as it allows him to enjoy himself a natural environment. However, this hobby requires a lot of time because there are many and varied tasks to perform. The vegetable garden provides us with fresh vegetables from July until September, so we practice the consumption of proximity and have fresh products of maximum quality throughout the summer.

We have now carried out tasks of soil preparation and planting. As you can see in our pictures, the soil has been prepared with the cultivator. Besides, a good dose of manure has been poured to help the plants grow quickly and the metal structure (cage) has been installed, there the plants will be supported when they grow (especially the tomato plants). After that, we have planted tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc. The next tasks will be to set up the irrigation system and to continue planting other types of vegetables.

We will update the post as we do the different tasks and the plants grow... if anyone wants to try the products, we'll be waiting for you here.

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​The vegetable garden is at full capacity

We would like to change the topic. After two weeks talking about purple garlic, we think it will be a good idea to talk about homely farming. Our vegetable garden is giving us some fantastic vegetables. We have said it is a homely farming because all vegetables are to be consumed by our whole family. As you can see in our pictures, tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, peppers,... are of the highest quality. In our village (and in our area in general), it is very common farmers have a small vegetable garden in summer to own consumption. It generates a lot of familiar work because all tasks are carried out manually, but it is very gratifying.

Thank our earthenware jar, which was installed last year and it is used to water our vegetable garden through a drip system (also, we use it to fill our sprayer in the appropriate season), our orchard has a great color. We hope to be harvesting tomatoes during the next two weeks as well.

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Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)

Broad beans to eat them with ham

During December and January we sow broad beans in our green garden. It is the first crop... tomatoes, pumpkins, cucumbers, etc. will be sowed when the good weather arrives.

This time we have used two varieties of broad beans: "much honey" and "super long". We think the main difference between them is the first one will have pods with approximately 6 broad beans and the other variety will have pods with about 12 broad beans.

For sowing we used our garlic minichissel plough. We made rows with them and after that, we sowed broad beans manually. As you can see in our pictures, we sowed them in groups of about 5 bread beans with a distance of 15 cm among them.

The harvesting will be ready in May. These broad beans are cooked with ham and they are a delicatessen... for our followers who have never tasted it, we invite them to eat it... it is sure you will like them.

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Joaquín y Herminio Tribaldos (Twins' Farm)