Guerrila garden grows up

Here’s an update on our guerrilla garden … we can barely keep up with the eating thereof, it’s courgette soup/pasta/fritters/frittata/ in salad etcetera etcetera then the same with spinach, beetroot, beans … we’re also giving loads away but the potatoes are too delicious and we keep them all for ourselves and ‘inner circle’ friends and family. Soon come tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers. Next season the challenge is to grow gemsquash here (can’t be bought here for love nor money, so will have to work on the love thing).

5 Comments to “Guerrila garden grows up”

  1. emme 27 July 2010 at 10:52 am #

    that’s some serious food you’re producing. well done!

  2. Elsa 27 July 2010 at 1:01 pm #

    Thanks, Emme, this blog is a good way of charting the garden’s progress cause can’t believe how much the plants have grown since I first posted about it. I notice I can’t spell though – “guerrila” – that’s what I get for balancing a laptop in front of the telly!

  3. Helen 27 July 2010 at 4:02 pm #

    I’m green with envy, what a variety you have there.
    My garden is at the stage where it needs a good seeing to.
    Well done Elsa!

  4. Elephant's Eye 27 July 2010 at 10:09 pm #

    Where are you? In Switzerland I found gem squash after some years, under the Italian name of Rondini. Maybe at an Italian grocer near you?

  5. Elsa 28 July 2010 at 8:06 am #

    Thanks for the Rondini tip will check it out, we’re in London. I heard of someone here who tried unsuccessfully to grow gemsquash from seed having bought some gems from the ‘posh’ supermarket (Waitrose) which sometimes has them. In the meanwhile we have experimented with other pumpkins (see photo). Those little babies grow visibly daily, so exciting. The heat-retaining wall at the back makes this a perfect spot for our veg garden (or so I’m told) – maybe that’s one of the reasons why it’s flourishing.


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