Growing and Gardening in Spain
One of the big challenges of gardening in Spain is the improvement of poor soils before planting flowering plants, non flowering evergreens, vegetables, and fruit trees bushes and plants so that they can be grown healthily without the need for excessive amounts of water and unnatural levels of artificial fertilizers.
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
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.
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.
Seven products we wish we had known about when we started gardening in Spain and where to buy them from.
A discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of growing from plantlets rather than sowing your own seed when grwoing vegetables in Spain
