Beautiful abundant garden Spring 21
The subtropical climate of the Azores is just perfect, almost everything grows here, except for fruits which need frost. We have fresh veggies and herbs the whole year around, also in winter there is a great variety, like different kinds of cabbages, salads, carrots, and things from the onion family grow very well. Also many fruits like Anonas (Cheremoya), Araçás and Loquat (Nesperes) are ripe in Winter and early spring.
Jan was really ambitious to make a big start now in our garden, with a large variety. His bad leg injury was not holding him back at all (typical Virgo I guess, but I just have to say that I have rarely met a man who is so positive and loyal to his mission and dreams, against all odds).
Bananas, almost ready for harvest. It takes around 1,5 years from the little offshoot to the ready fruits. 
Tree cat Princesa 
Princesa, Caldeira (the volcano) in the background 
Lemon and guava 
Iberian green frog 
Our garden, Pico in the background, on a clear day. Usually we can get quite a lot of rain in spring and don´t have to water the garden at all. 
The Avocado trees get fresh young leafs 
Our new field gives the first crops, horse Lilla Gubben helps keep the grass short and produces compost for us 
Pumpkins 
Yacon 
Inhame, Taro 
Leeks 
Tomato, red beets and cucumber 
Chards and strawberries 
Sugar snap peas 
Malaba spinach 
Sugar snap peas 
Wild spinach 
We get lots of amazing flowers in spring 
Peanut 
Safflower, typically used in the Azores as Saffron substitute 
Pumpkins 
More Pumpkins 
Comfrey 
Salad 
Sweet potatoes 
Jan is doing most of the hard garden work, I´m keeping everything together mostly from my office at the moment. 
Jan is mainly doing the planting, my job is more the harvesting and processing in the kitchen and seeing that everybody is well fed. 
Healthy potatoes. Amazing what Jan has accomplished so shortly after his bad accident! 
Carrots, onions and artichokes 
Carrots, onions and artichokes
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