slugs

 so after months of good, even warmer than usual, weather the Netherlands typical one is returning.

that means rain, rain, rain. And with it the slugs come out. Unfortunately they already eat some of my leaves, cabbage and cauliflower but they attacked my spinach too.

So I started some traps:

I filled them with beer.

The cheapest, from Lidl :)

ta daa!!

14 slugs there

I threw them over the compost pile

But on more positive note I got my first harvest today:

spinach

spinach

spinach

Hope I can post soon more fruits of labor ;)

Cheers!

slow

 so from all initial seeds I can see like 1/4th, and smaller than it should be

at this time, the cabbage , red cabbage and cauliflower seedlings had the 

leaves eaten completely by ... something.

I see some nasturtium seedlings coming up but I bought 4 marigold pairs and put it here and there,

also some new cabbage, cauliflower and peppers seedlings, bought yeah,

and planted some more carrots from seeds since nothing came out from original ones.

I have to say since the first time I planted it rained only for 2 days, in 2 months and was more warm than any spring...

I leave you with a picture of my dog.

status update

 so I planted more parsley :)

and kohlrabi, celery but the ones that gets the bulb, the root, I donno,

and some beet

I know you cannot see much but this is the garden now and has some new seedlings out

and this is me (on the right)

at the AWS summit in Amsterdam, where this was presented:

Continues

 
I got a few seedlings that I planted, cauliflower, white and red cabbage:

the indoor growing ones are okeish:

except the tomatoes, all shrink and dried and died:

so sad

I got myself this for watering it and every day at latest at lunch time I do it:

but the weather is warmer, soon time to plant the eggplants , peppers and I need also to buy some tomatoes seedlings, no stress.

Garden ready for

 So the compost arrived

and I was transporting it and drop it over the carton:

40 wheelbarrows here:

leveled it:

and today I started planting, onion, carrots, beans, spinach, rucola, dill, parsley, leak, lettuce and garlic:

what you see in the image above is that wherever I planted, I did that directly in the compost, I then covered with a thin layer of soil.

I also planted this blackberry thing, my son wanted it:

and in the weekend I made some ... we called it langosi, is a kind of simple donut, simple may be but is very tasty:) :

then yesterday went with my wife to this place where are many threes blooming with a lot of  white flowers.

and here we are today, just after I walked my dog:

Status update

 It is ... going

This is cabbage:

yeah, I know, is long, and these are tomatoes in front and cauliflower in the backseat:  

and these 2 : on the right aubergine, on the left peppers:

I also continued with the bread baking, this is my last:

special le French flour monseigneur

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Today I went with my son and cleaned the garden, forgot to take pictures but I will from now on, I promise.

 OK, this is it

No really, if this time I get the same leggy ones I quit trying to get seedlings myself and will buy them directly.

Because indeed the last batch had same problem, got 2 long earning for more sun.

That was again with cabbage and cauliflower.

So now I got some boxes, each one with its own light, and I go for all the ones I want to first raise from seed indoor:

tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and of course cauliflower and cabbage :)

Check this out:

I got them covered until its germinate and come out.

After that I will put them growing lights, for most of the time.

Let see, again :D

Other than that I started with baking, yeah, this is my first bread made this Sunday:

Yeah maybe it looks weird but tasted very good

And today,

baguettes: 

I don't have 2 much space in my oven so made them smaller but I still had to bend them a bit, not like Beckham...

very good taste, believe me

On yet another front, spring is here, fucking finally: