Growing and Gardening in Spain
The Spanish have a rich culinary tradition and as well as gardening in Spain we enjoy cooking. As well as preparing Spanish food, we like to store our own produce that we grow in our garden and allotment.
Even with two trees it’s impossible to eat all fresh, making lots of mandarin marmelade is time consuming and not the healthiest regular breakfast and the deepfreeze is already loaded with frozen mandarin juice in bags and plastic beakers plus frozen half fruits for use in our favourite mandarin rabbit dish.
Salads are an important part of the Spanish Mediterranean diet. You will see workers eating them with their breakfast and as a second starter at lunch and it’s a popular accompaniment to tapas before dinner and often to a summer paella.
Read: Spanish Salad Recipes
Drying fruit and vegetables grown in our Spanish garden. For more than a thousand years in Spain red peppers, figs, grapes for raisins and beans have been dried in the sun especially in the hotter areas of the Costa de sol and Costa de Calida.
