Beautiful pineapple flowers. The best pineapples btw come from Sao Miguel.
A big mangold (chard)
Jan planting out green asparagus! They were very easy two grow in pots.
It takes at least 3 years before we can start harvest the asparagus.
Extremely happy about and looking forward to this deliciousness!
Jan´s mom sent 4 seeds for really good and productive cucumber plants in spring
Fantastic harvest of red beets
Few from above into our garden-valley
The main field in the center of the garden
Overview of house and garden
Malabar spinach – the seeds we got from our friend Anne from Sao Miguel
Peanuts
Safflowers – the bright petals are used in Portugal as a saffron substitute
Zucchini
We got lots of Tat soi and Bok choi
Honey melons
Kale, wonderful for kale chips
The azorean cucumbers
Tomatoes
Red beets
Hokkaido pumpkin, very aromatic taste and edible with skin
The florets of the leeks can be used to give dishes a garlicky taste
Bell peppers (we react sensitive to hot and spicey food with our skin, so we just grow the sweet ones)
Some pretty sunflowers here and there
Bell peppers
Bell peppers 
The salad was wonderful. Now it already starts shooting.
Sugar snap peas
The caterpillar from the Monarch butterfly
The caterpillar from the Monarch butterfly 
The only papaya tree that made it here so far. But then they grow so fast!
Papaya flowers
Papaya flowers 
And already little fruits showing
Signs of hope. We get a lot of them (and need them).
Enjoying the flowers from my desk
