EcoCulture Garden Update – Abundance – July 28, 2018

5 Aug, 2018 in EcoCulture / Raíces EcoCulture Gardens tagged apiculture / beans / bees / black beans / bumble bees / bumblebee / Caribbean / cucumber / elcampane / flowers / for the pollinators / garden / gardening / grow your own / harvest / heirloom / herbs / homestead / kale / lettuce / marigold / micro farm / native / oregano / Pachamama / plant / pollinator garden / pollinators / Raíces EcoCulture / roses / scarlet runner / seed saving / tomatoes / wildflowers by Nicole Wines

by Nicole Wines

We have moved on from lettuce salads to sauteed kale, homemade pickles and an diversity of beans. Tomato vines are bursting with green tomatoes and we will be making sauce, salsa and tomato sandwiches soon. Herbal medicines are steeping and being prepared almost daily. The flowers continue to bloom, attracting pollinators of all kinds. This year’s garden is the most abundant, strongest, healthiest and biodiverse garden we have ever worked with. Thanks pachamama!

: The backyard micro farm

: 3 varieties of cucumbers

: One of our first pickling cucumbers

: Daisy

: Kale

: Kale

: Eggplant blossom

: Baby eggplant

: Tomato cage

: Heirloom

: Homemade bamboo structure

: Soon to be yellow mid-sized tomatoes

: Salvia

: Lettuce setting flowers for seed saving

: New crop of lettuce – spotted trout variety

: Roses

: Marigold

: Oregano flower and bumblebee

: Fig tree

: Bumblebee

: Elcampane

: Oregano flower

: Pollinator in a cucumber flower

: Scarlet runner beans and zinnias

: Wlldflower

: Black beans ready to shell

: Black bean patch

: Tomato blossoms

: Intensive plots mixed with new seed beds.