Update: How does my Swiss Garden Grow?

Now my flower... but I wish it were.
My garden is in the background.

Things in my Swiss allotment garden are going splendly really. Here is a quick update for all of you that love to hear about my 'Green thumb' adventures in Switzerland.

I have finally planted the full garden, meaning I am using up almost every available meter in my 6 x 16 meter space. At the moment, the only produce I am harvesting is salad... and boy am I ever harvesting salad. There is so much that when my Swiss garden neighbors stop by, all they can say is... 'That is a lot of salad.' And 'Man, you could sell that salad on the market.' And by the way, the word for lettuce in German is 'Salat.' So I had to translate it like it sounds in German... 'Salad.'

And they are right... I do have a lot of (lovely, lovely) salad. And feel free to read this in the Bubba Gump voice I am using in my head as a type this... There's...

American brown leaf salad....

curly green salad...

heads of robust leafy salad...

And even Asian mixed leaf salad... I think that is about all the salad there iSSssss...

As you can tell... it entertains me to no end to talk about my 'salad.' :) I planted it all because Jace nags me about not making him enough salads, so I wanted to have enough lettuce to make him a few. Now... I have enough salad to supply Cuba with surplus. Oh well. (If you are in the area and want some salad, just come on over!)

But there is more than salad that I am excited about, for example:Yellow and grean beans.

The beans came up despite not covering/protecting the seeds. I think all the old timers were surprised that the birds did not eat my beans. I told those birds, 'Stay the hell away from my beans...' And you know what, they did. It must be the American accent.

There are all kinds of pumpkins coming up, too... let's not talk about the fact that they are going to be squished because I no doubt planted them too close together. Let's just talk about how cute they are now all in a row on the straw matting I stole from the garbage and the stares I got stealing it and dragging it to the plot. :) Keeps the weeds down and is GREEN. Love it.

And let's talk about chilis.

Another crop that I will no doubt have too much of. Jace loves his chilis.

All the plants are coming up swimmingly, I am getting lots of (unwanted but nevertheless friendly) advice from neighbors about how my potatoes are not going to make it and my onions are sick and how my tomatoes are all going to get blight and die. Joy. And some old man came onto me the other day and insisted that I have a coffee at his place and get an Italian boyfriend... but besides all that I am really loving the experience and cannot wait to eat more than salad from this fine piece of Swiss land.
More updates, coming soon. :)

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