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Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden. Vegetable growing in a small urban garden within a large modern city.

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January: Starting Chilli Peppers 🌶️

January is the quiet month outdoors. The winter crops (garlic, broad beans and onions) are in the pots and beds and waiting for the big frost and snow. It's time to start the chilli peppers.

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January: Starting Chilli Peppers - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
January is the quiet month outdoors. The winter crops (garlic, broad beans and onions) are in the pots and beds and waiting for the big frost and snow.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Garlic: Try something new 🧄

Growing garlic is a simple way to extend the growing season of the average city garden. Now (until the end of February) is the time to get early spring garlic planted in the garden.

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Garlic new 2017 - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Garlic requires good draining soil to grow well. It does not like wet heavy soils which can be a problem in Belgium. However, it does grow well in pots.
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January 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Designing a Small City Garden ✏️

Like any good workman start by deciding on the “tea area.” Picking a good spot allows good overall observation of the garden.

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Designing a Garden - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Like any good workman start by deciding where you are going to have the "tea area" for lots of breaks. This allows good overall observation of the garden
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January 12, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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January gardening 🧅

January is onion planting time. Onion sets (immature bulbs) are the easiest way to get onions going and can be direct planted or hurried along in trays.

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January gardening - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
With temperatures forecast under 5 degrees for the next week or so there is not much opportunity for starting new plants in the garden.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Winter salad planting 🥗

Early winter inspiration. Starting indoors and slowly moving young plants out, a supply of greens can be achieved throughout the winter months.

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Winter salad planting - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Winter salad planting. Starting indoors and slowly moving young plants out, a supply of greens can be achieved throughout the winter months.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Winter planting 🪴

Autumn inspiration. The idea is to get these crops established and growing before the hard cold of winter arrives...

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Winter planting - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Autumn is the time for winter crops, garlic, beans and onions. Get these established and growing before the hard cold of winter arrives.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Starting chilli peppers 🌶️

Chilli seeds can be slow to germinate. They are shallow planted, lightly watered then closed in either a propagator box or simply in a plastic box with plastic fastened over it.

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Starting chilli peppers - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
With the recent hot summers it's worth starting chilli pepper plants now. Plants started now will be ready for moving outside in about 8 weeks time.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Indoor gardening 🌱

For city gardeners without the luxury of a greenhouse or a garden shed, indoors is the only option for bringing on plants for later planting outside.

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Indoor gardening - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
City gardeners without the luxury of greenhouse or shed indoors is the only option for bringing on plants. If possible, a room with heating turned down.
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December 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Garden bees gallery 🐝

The best known beneficial insects are the pollinators, the bees, wasps and butterflies. They carry pollen grains from the anther to the stigma parts of the plant…

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Garden Bees 01 - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
The best known of beneficial insects are the pollinators, bees, wasps and butterflies. They carry pollen grains to allow pollination to occur.
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December 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Chilli pepper season 🌶️

Chilli pepper seeds are notoriously slow to start (10-20 days). They require consistent conditions of heat and moisture to germinate…

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Chilli pepper season - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
With temperatures falling outside and snow forecast, chilli pepper season is here. December is the month for starting chilli peppers indoors.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Merry Christmas! 🎄 🎅 🧑‍🎄

Joyeux noël!
Vrolijk Kerstfeest!
¡Feliz navidad!

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Santa in a garden holding a wooden bucket full of freshly picked vegetables.

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Santa in a garden holding a wooden bucket full of freshly picked vegetables.
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Bean Flowers Gallery 🌸

Bean plants produce wonderful flowers. For gardeners the flowers are a sign that the plant is growing successfully and will soon produce beans…

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Bean Flowers Gallery - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Bean plants produce wonderful flowers. For gardeners they are a sure sign that the plant is growing successfully and will soon produce beans.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Making chilli jam 🌶️

There is nothing better on a rainy cold afternoon than to take one hour and make a batch of hot chilli pepper jam…

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Making chilli jam - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Making chilli jam. There is nothing better on a rainy cold afternoon than to take one hour and make a batch of hot chilli pepper jam.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Gardening, Why Garden? 🏡

Quite simply, you have to want to. Gardening requires physical work, patience, attention to detail and sustained commitment over the key growing times of the year…

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Gardening, Why Garden? - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
It is important to say here that the choice to grow vegetables in a city garden is not about attempting to feed a family or replicate the BBC comedy The Good Life. The aim here is to bring something o...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Growing underground ⬇️

The basement corridor of the garden is an ideal example of underused city space that is ideal for vertical gardening…

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Grow underground - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
The basement corridor in a garden is an ideal example of underused space that is ideal for vertical gardening. Natural climbers beans, tomatoes & cucumber
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December 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Pickled chillis 🌶️

With the winter cold now here, it is ideal to have some hot chilli jam to hand to spice up winter snacks. Chilli peppers really lend themselves to processing for later use…

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Pickled chillis - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
With winter cold here it's ideal to have some hot chilli jam to spice up winter snacks. Chilli peppers really lend themselves to processing for later use
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December 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Vertical Gardening ⬆️

Vertical gardening is for gardeners who do not have a lot of horizontal space. It has become a niche science these days with many elaborate and quite amazing systems…

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Vertical Gardening - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Vertical gardening is for gardeners who do not have a lot of horizontal space. It has become a niche science with many elaborate and quite amazing systems.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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December: Winter salad 🥗

With a few tricks winter salad can be planted throughout the winter months. In general, it should be planted late summer or early autumn…

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December: Winter salad - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
With a few tricks winter salad can be planted throughout the winter months. In general, it should be planted late summer or early autumn but as winter in Belgium often starts with a hard frost and ext...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Winter planting 🌱

This is the best time of year for good salads. Getting small plants started indoors then hardening them off outdoors before planting in trays…

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November: Winter planting - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Winter is starting much like summer finished, wet. Forecasts suggest a wet winter which is not ideal with garden beds already sodden and wet.
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December 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Growing Peppers in the City 🌶️

There are 100s of types of chilli pepper. Capsicum annuum (sweet peppers and chillies) are the most common and extensively cultivated of the five domesticated capsicums…

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Growing Peppers in the City - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Chillis are the quintessential ingredient in a wide range of cuisine. Originally from South America and the Caribbean region, the chilli pepper has found its way into national dishes from Asia to Indi...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Nasturtiums gallery 🌸

Apart from providing wonderful colour in a small garden, nasturtiums are the gardener’s favourite for encouraging beneficial insects into the garden…

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Nasturtium gallery - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Gallery: Apart from providing wonderful colour in a small garden, nasturtiums are a gardeners favourite for encouraging beneficial insects into the garden.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Building a new raised bed gallery 🪚

The key point in constructing a raised bed is to ensure the overall bed is level. This is for aesthetic reasons and practical reasons…

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A new raised bed - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
A raised bed is the most efficient use of space to create a good vegetable garden. The bed is fed with home made compost every year keeping soil fertile.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Slugs and Snails 🐌

Adult garden snails lay an average of 80 eggs at a time into the soil and can lay eggs up to 6 times a year. They can live for up to 6 years…

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Slugs and Snails - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Slugs & snails are a very real part of a mild, wet climate zone. An average city garden can be home to 1000's as Belgian weather is very suitable for them
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November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Growing beans gallery 🫘

Beans are fun to grow, tasty and a great choice for novice, expert and children gardeners. They are the ideal city garden plant as they require little space…

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Beans gallery 1 - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
Beans are fun to grow, tasty and a great choice for novice, expert and children gardeners. They are an ideal city garden plant as they require little space
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November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM