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Summer Season Ends - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden The summer season is over for another year and the garden is being cleared for its winter rest. This type of gardening is a form of temporary gardening...

End of the summer season ☀️

Summer is over and being cleared for its winter rest. This is a form of temporary gardening installed each spring to take advantage of the growing season then packed away each winter…

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A bowl sitting on a kitchen table is full of various beans drying.

Drying beans 🫘

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A bowl sitting on a kitchen table is full of various beans drying.

October: Small successes - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden It's been a difficult year. October is winter crop season so gardeners can hope a mild winter might follow an awful summer, but it may not

October: Small successes 🌶️ 🧅

October is the start of the winter crop season so gardeners can hope a mild winter might follow an awful summer, but it might not…

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In Allan's hand are freshly picked Obereg tomatoes.

Obereg tomatoes 🍅

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In Allan's hand are freshly picked Obereg tomatoes.

Vertical Gallery - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Vertical gardening gallery: For gardeners who don't have lots of horizontal space. Has become a niche science with many elaborate and quite amazing systems

Vertical gardening gallery 📐

Vertical gardening is for gardeners who do not have a lot of horizontal space. It has become a niche science these days with many elaborate and quite amazing systems…

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In Allan's hand is a freshly picked Black Sea Man tomato

Black Sea Man tomato 🍅

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In Allan's hand is a freshly picked Black Sea Man tomato

Garden to plate - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden A good 3 months with all tomatoes, salads, beans, courgettes, cucumbers, basil and chilli peppers coming fresh from the garden each day.

Garden to plate 🍽️

With a small garden, it is possible to preserve and save produce from the garden to last the next 6 months. Using the kitchen is the central part to a successful kitchen garden…

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Container Gallery - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden As with most aspects of city gardening it is important to choose smaller fruiting varieties (for example, cherry tomato over beefsteak) for best results.

Container gardening gallery 🪴

Smaller plants in containers can and will produce a surprising harvest of food stuff over the growing season and only require a small and constant effort of maintenance…

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Kitchen time - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Kitchen time. The traditional idea of a kitchen garden is to have an outdoor pantry full of fresh produce for using every day.

Kitchen time 🍅

For anyone who has more than a dozen tomato plants growing in a year, an inexpensive electric food dehydrator is a must…

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Compost gallery - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Growing your own soil is fundamental to understand growing plants. Productivity is driven by soil nutrient content, moisture, structure & light intensity.

Compost: growing soil gallery 🪱

Growing your own soil is fundamental to understanding the growing of plants. As garden productivity is mainly driven by soil nutrient content…

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Allan's garden featuring a raised bed and lots of different plants in containers throughout.

Raised bed garden 🏡

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Allan's garden featuring a raised bed and lots of different plants in containers throughout.

Tomato harvest - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Tomato harvest. All tomatoes should be harvested before they start to soften and stored at room temperature out of direct sunlight.

Tomato harvest 🍅

Tomatoes are best picked young from the plant. While bunches of ripe tomatoes are a pleasure to behold in the garden the best tomatoes are those picked regularly through the season…

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Summer colours (Chilli Peppers Gallery) - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden It's that time of year when fruit transitions from green to finished colour. Chilli peppers can be confusing with some of the changes looking unhealthy.

Summer colours (Chilli Peppers) 🌶️

Chilli peppers move through a range of colours as they ripen on the vine. As long as the fruit remains solid it is safe to say it is healthy and on its way…

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Salad season open - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden With the drop in temperature the fall salad season can get going. Lettuce and salad crops are cool climate crops best suited to early spring.

Salad season open 🥗

With the drop in temperature the fall salad season can get going. Lettuce and salad crops are cool climate crops best suited to early spring or early autumn…

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Bean Flowers Gallery - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Bean plants produce wonderful flowers. For gardeners they are a sure sign that the plant is growing successfully and will soon produce beans.

Bean Flowers Gallery 🌸

Bean plants produce wonderful flowers. For gardeners the flowers are a sign that the plant is growing successfully and will soon produce beans…

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Paper Lantern chilli peppers on the vine sitting in a medium sized plastic container pot.

Paper Lantern chilli peppers 🌶️

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Paper Lantern chilli peppers on the vine sitting in a medium sized plastic container pot.

Processing beans - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Beans are a wonderful crop for Belgian weather conditions. At this time of year the plants are producing lots of beans requiring picking every other day.

Processing beans 🫛

The basic method for preparing beans is by boiling the diced beans for 10-15 minutes then rinsing well in cold water. This removes the natural toxins from the beans and softens them…

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Nasturtiums Gallery 2017 - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden The leaves and flowers are edible with a tangy taste similar to pepper. Used in salads and soups they add colour with flavour to many dishes.

Nasturtiums Gallery 🌸

Originally from South America, nasturtiums have a culinary and medical history. The leaves and flowers are edible with a tangy taste similar to pepper…

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Second Basil harvest - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden This year has been a good year for basil. With one harvest already taken several weeks ago it is time to take a second harvest from the plants.

Second Basil harvest 🌿

Many people grow a single plant of basil in a pot. However, to get a sufficient harvest to produce a reasonable quantity of leaves it is necessary to take a more industrial approach…

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A collection of freshly harvested white onions sit on top of a plastic container.

Mini onion harvest 🧅

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A collection of freshly harvested white onions sit on top of a plastic container.

Picking tomatoes - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Picking your own tomatoes is very satisfying. Fully mature tomatoes are a sign of healthy plants despite the limiting factors of a small city garden.

Picking tomatoes 🍅

Picking your own tomatoes is very satisfying. Fully mature tomatoes is a sign of a healthy plant often despite weather conditions and the limiting factors of a small city garden.

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A hand holding a bunch of freshly harvested Cherry Belle radishes

Cherry Belle radish 🥗

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A hand holding a bunch of freshly harvested Cherry Belle radishes

A hand holding 3 ripe Karas tomatoes.

Karas tomatoes 🍅

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A hand holding 3 ripe Karas tomatoes.

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Tomato Gallery 2019 (Part 1) - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden A raised bed is the best way to grow tomatoes but large pots work well too. This raised bed is 5m by 1m with a framework of aluminium poles built over it.

Tomato Gallery (Part 1) 🍅

The challenge with growing tomatoes in a small area intensively is to mix the varieties both for type and for harvesting…

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Caspian Pink tomato on the vine not quite ripe yet.

Caspian Pink tomato 🍅

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Caspian Pink tomato on the vine not quite ripe yet.

Heat wave gardening | 2018 - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden The forecast is very hot with temperatures between 26 and 31 degrees. With no rain in sight, these conditions have not been seen in Belgium since 1976.

Heat wave gardening ☀️

There is no point over-watering plants. Evening watering or watering once the direct sun has passed allows the plants to stand in moist soil for the longest time, overnight.

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6 peppers growing on vines in various states of colours and maturity.

Ring of Fire chilli peppers 🌶️

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6 peppers growing on vines in various states of colours and maturity.

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Summer Chard - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Summer Chard - With the summer heatwave resumed, following cool wet conditions, it is understandable garden plants are confused and distressed.

Summer Chard 🥬

Kitchen gardeners love the daily supply of fresh food. Chard works very well with this. The larger leaves from the outside of the plant and can be steamed, blanched or gently heated…

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A young red kale plant sits in a pot on a sunny day with pots in the background containing various other young plants.

Russian Red Kale 🥬

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A young red kale plant sits in a pot on a sunny day with pots in the background containing various other young plants.

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Recycling potting soil - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden Recycling soil. The current heatwave is a good opportunity to turn old soil into a useful mineral rich medium for use in next month's winter planting.

Recycling potting soil ♻️

Soil used in pots, trays and containers looses its vitality very quickly. What do you do with your old potting soil?

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