𝕳𝖎 𝖘𝖆𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖉 Ҟ𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕲𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖓!

I'm back with a little update on our teenage plants that I started back then in our nomadic nursery!

We actually had an explosion of tomatoes and paprikas, if they all make it to maturity we would have a great harvest for all sorts of culinary endeavors.

𝕮𝖚𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖗𝝲 𝕻𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖘

What I would really love to try this year is sundrying tomatoes.
I had not realized how much I find them even more delicious than fresh tomatoes!
Especially when we arrived here and I cooked dinner for the first time, there were no tomatoes in season, so I reverted to sundried tomatoes we had bought at the organic store just before hitting the road, and oh my they made the entire meal extradimensional!
I figured through that that preparing and conserving condiments as such for off-season cooking was actually a genius way and maybe even more succulent!

some tomatoes soon opening flowers!	Basket of Fire chilli that we managed to bring with us, seeded from last summer

For the rest, with an abundance of Paprika, I would smoke them {a tomato version too now that I think of it} and grind into powder; it surely is one of the best seasonings ever and I prefer much more than cooking fresh peppers,

Otherwise, since I wish for a grandiose basil harvest, maybe try to create some tomato and paprika sauces and pastes for over the winter, like pesto **WITHOUT ** VEGETABLE / SEED OILS. {insert an infinity of toxic skull emojis here} But more on that whole other subject later...


_{4 tomatoes and unidentified number of paprikas in one pot, 2 pomegranate seedlings and an appletree seedling on the right}

𝕷𝖎𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖑 ฟ𝖆𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖒

Since there were a few weeks left before the last frost, and plants were growing quick, we had to find a viable solution for the inbetween and acclimatizing them to the outdoor.
Since I planted multiple seeds in each egg pod, and they even rooted out to their neighbours it was a little bit of a mess to untangle them and I had to quickly move them in individual pots.
Some roots were longer than my hand!
Especially this Crown of Thorns zucchini that's how long its roots were when I transplanted it.

Also, I can't bring it over myself to cull seedlings, especially I have no idea which are meant to survive by nature. It reminds me a bit of beekeeping where when humans decide of who should be the queen you get problems and really have no idea who is fit for the job genetically, physically and energetically. So I just figured I leave it up to Nature to decide who should make it, I didn't hesitate to put a couple together in a pot. Let's see how the drive to survival will express in them. If they endure until it's planting time, maybe they can work together and spread out by themselves, who knows!
For paprika, I planted many in pairs, as they support each other during growth.
On that note, I would love to hear your views on the proclaimedxx distances that are said to have between each plant stock.
To be honest that subject confuses me hugely! In nature, a fruit falls in one place. Ok, it can spread out a little when it's breaking apart and fermenting, but those seeds are not really spreading out much!
And also, everytime I've respected those distances in the past, the plants grew so weak and thin, they looked miserable and especially flowers looked so sparse and scattered. Whereas I see so many flowerbeds that are so beautifully full and the colors are alltogether, I don't believe they are planted so widely apart!
So I am doubting evermore this rigid distance planting, I gladly invite any thoughts, reflections and personal experiences about that, don't hesitate to drop in a comment!

As there was less and less place under the grow lights, we moved some of the eldest seedlings to a waiting room station in front of the terrarium until the night time temperatures stayed above the 10°C.
When that bench was full, I moved them to the sunroom and garden on warm days and took them back indoor for the night.
I could not really have a system in those conditions, so I just had to use my common sense and work with the weather on each day.

Otherwise squash had a boom too, like I mentioned in my previous post, I had saved up a huge quantity of all sorts of squash and pumpkins and those that I seeded, spaghetti squash, hokkaido pumpkin and sweet dumplings are growing so well I don't have any big enough pots to put them, so I had to plant a twin pair into a plastic bag and lay it into a wide kitchen bowl I found in the garden.

𝕿𝖍𝖊 ꕷ𝖚𝖓 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖒

During the last weeks, we have worked a little on the sunroom and started to prepare it for housing the plants we wished to grow in a sort of indoor jungle garden.
While AEK built an awesome oven from scratch, I painted the doorframes black so that they would radiate the heat from the sun inside.
I must say I start to really enjoy painting walls, this one was my initiation of some sorts. I first applied a layer and felt so weird about how it looked, I literally thought I sucked at this, I started to doubt myself and feel shame of failure funnily. But then, I just remembered our mantra since we moved here:

"It's not about aesthetics, it's about function and efficience.

The rest is pompous and pretense if it is just meant to be pretty without much purpose behind. And funnily, after applying a second layer that was more liquified, it actually looked perfect. I'm really impressed by how noble black matte can look, I'm very happy with the result although I was cringing in the first round and thought I'd ruined our entire entrance!

By that time the weather has gone up to around 20°C daytime and around 10-14°C nighttime, so I started to colonize the space with all the plants we seeded here, leaving them all day and night in the sunroom.

So far a few tomatoes, paprika and Basket of Fire chilli plant were already living in the garden in their pots, and yesterday, I moved the rest outside. There happened to be a thunderstorm so that was awesome energy water for all of them!


_{Basket of Fire Chilli with the tallest tomato so far, 2 paprikas growing together that I had seeded in the winter and transplanted here and 2 okra seedlings on the bottom}

sweet dumplings or hokkaido (not sure anymore) and 2 tomatoes	spaghetti squash with basilicum growing sweetly under its umbrella	the two other spaghetti squash with basilicum that were born in the white hanging pot

ꕷ𝖆𝖑𝖆𝖉 𝕮𝖔𝖔ᶄ𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕻𝖔𝖙𝖘

The weather was good for planting salads, so I took some old dishpots laying across the property and put some salad and herbs seeds into them. A little experiment, there is no drainage so I might have to transplant them later. Most of them sprouted by now, also some Mangold and Bok Choi in the eggpods.

Recently, we also started to build some raised beds inside on the parts that receive sun through the glass, but I leave that up for the next post, because Amore just brought home this glorious Datura Plant!

Thank you for following along.

WIshing you all a glorious embrace in Mother Nature, wherever you may be,

☥ KPHI ☥

If you are curious to read more about our adventure, here are some other posts from our Sanctuary Diaries (in the latest order);

۞ Roots & Herbal Temple Corner ۞ Sanctuary GardenJournal ۞, by me

۞ Sanctuary Diaries - Magical Synchronicities & Sacred Fires ۞, by A.E.K.

۞ Sanctuary Diaries - Challenges in a Foreign Country ۞, by A.E.K.

۞ 𓋺 Creating a Nursery in a nomadic setting 𓋺 First #GardenJournal at the Sanctuary! ۞, by me

𝕺𝖚𝖗 𝓥𝖎𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝕻𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 ꕷ𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖗𝒚 𝖎𝖓 𝖆 𝖓𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖑;

۞ Building a 𝕭𝖊𝖊 ꕷ𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖗𝐲 - Fresh Start (with Video) ۞, by me

۞ The Messengers of the Divine Garden ۞, by me

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