Hello lovelies, I hope you enjoy the summer days and hopefully also your gardens, green balconies or spots. Today I have 2 zucchini recipes and an update from the garden. My Urban Garden, which I was able to design in collaboration with City Farming from Do It + Garden from Migros, is definitely my favorite summer spot. Everything is growing here like crazy, but above all the zucchini are simply unstoppable this year.
City Farming
No matter in which planter, they grow and thrive. I think this is mainly due to the super organic soil and the fertilizer that I bought in City Farming. You will get great advice there and even if you don’t have enough space, you will also get open soil and don’t have to buy a big bag. And of course you can also stock up on all the plants there. I just got another basil (unfortunately the snails were a little voracious) and I was also allowed to take a kiwi and eucalyptus home - I just couldn't resist.
But now I'm going to show you a few pictures of how well everything has grown in the last 4 weeks!
This is really a difference of 4 weeks. I’m so fascinated by how great everything has grown. We have already harvested plenty of salads, peas, of course strawberries, currants and raspberries. And now a lot of zucchini and kohlrabi are ripe, so I would like to share 2 recipes with you for those.
And now on to the two recipes that came out of the harvest:
1. Zucchini kohlrabi soup
The first recipe is a creamy zucchini kohlrabi soup with potatoes – entirely without cream, quickly blended and very well received by the kids too. We ate it warm, but a small portion of leftovers tasted really good cold the next day as well.
Get the recipe: zucchini kohlrabi soup
2. Zucchini roses
And alongside them, very simple but pretty zucchini roses with puff pastry and vegan herb cream cheese. Most people already know apple roses, but this savory version tastes great and goes perfectly with a soup or a summer apéro.
Get the recipe: zucchini roses
I will soon be sharing more zucchini recipes, including 2 delicious cakes. I don't think the harvest will be over here that quickly, but I don't want to complain about that. It’s actually the total opposite, I’m really thankful every day for our Urban Garden and all that grows in such a small space here.
I am also looking forward to a rich tomato harvest, I even had to take some plants out of the tomato house because they have just grown too big. And then I have 2 pattison pumpkins that don't seem to believe in limitations and have long outgrown the raised bed - destination unknown ;-).
Have you already been able to harvest in your gardens or balconies? I hope you will try the two zucchini recipes, of course they also taste great with zucchini that have not grown in your own garden!
And in my city farming paradise you can find my first report about our raised-bed garden, which gives you a better insight into which raised beds we have and what we have planted.
Warm greetings from Zucchini Land
Love, Verena
This blogpost was created in collaboration with Migros Do It + Garden, but reflects my own opinion.
