May gardening tips: harvest promises
Rooftop gardening
May 13, 2012
I'm already harvesting some aromatic herbs and greens, but in May it's always fun to look all the new plants, and hope to harvest them soon.
 Look this tiny gherkin. This year I'm growing regular gherkin and white gherkin.
 This is a clary sage plant, a sage variety with large leaves.
 This is a small rhubarb Glaskins, it should be ready to harvest the next year, but that red stem makes me think of pies and jams...
Rhubarb recipes
 Rainbow chard are bolting, but flowers can be eaten like broccoli or asparagus.
 This is a Japanese onion called Ishikura, I should apply the earthing-up method during the growth to obtain long white stems, I will let you know!
 Last year I bought a dwarf apricot tree for my rooftop, and this year it has the first apricot. It's the only one, and I hope it will ripe.
 Last year all my tomatillo plants didn't produce a single fruit, so I'm growing again this year, however i don't have high expectations.
 Two years ago:
The chili peppers are in the right place!
This goes to Harvest Mondays
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