🌱 The vegetable garden: what & when to plant
🥬 What grows in the comarca
The mild, wet climate and acidic soils shape the Galician garden. Typical crops: grelos and nabizas (turnip greens), potatoes (cachelos), cabbage, maize, beans (fabas), onion and garlic, tomato and pepper, lettuce, and fruit such as apple and kiwi. Much of the land is pasture for dairy cattle.
🌱 Orientative calendar
- Spring (Mar-May): sow or plant tomato, pepper, lettuce, onion, beans and potatoes.
- Summer (Jun-Aug): harvest tomato, beans and early potatoes; water and watch for pests.
- Autumn (Sep-Nov): sow grelos and nabizas, garlic and winter beans; harvest maize, apples and chestnuts.
- Winter (Dec-Feb): harvest grelos and cabbage; prune fruit trees and plan the season.
🍃 Tips for the Atlantic climate
- Soils are usually acidic: liming now and then helps many vegetables.
- Shelter from the north-west wind with hedges or netting.
- Rotate crops and use compost to build organic matter.
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This is an orientative calendar for the Atlantic climate of Ferrolterra: adapt it to your microclimate and the weather of each year.