Our XXL pumpkins: strength training and sport without limits in the vegetable garden
This year, the Kerbeleg vegetable garden gave us a generous gift: 137 kilos of pumpkins harvested by the sweat of their brows, including two giants weighing 21 kilos each. It’s fair to say that seeing these plump beauties lined up makes you feel proud, amused… and a little overwhelmed by the abundance. Harvesting pumpkins is […]
Vegetable garden baskets
This is our first summer of harvests, late harvests because the time taken to create the Mandala meant that we had to postpone sowing and planting the plants indoors and growing them in the Mandala. The first successes, the first delights, a few failures too, but always the joy of learning and enjoying fruit and […]
Stevia for sweet tooths
It took a long time to germinate, and its fragile micro-seeds required a great deal of patience, but now it finally takes pride of place in the Mandala, the friend of diabetics and gourmets alike. Stevia, that little green plant, is a precious ally in the kitchen garden! You too can grow it on your […]
When pumpkins take off!
We set aside the organic waste from the kitchen and added the solid residues from our liquid manure fermentation, creating a smelly mini-butte which, covered with straw to mask the stench, housed a small handful of pumpkin seeds. The result is amazing! Giant leaves and unusual proliferation (these are the same seeds that last year […]
