Smissenbroek

Smissenbroek, is een ecologisch ervaringspark voor particulieren, bedrijven en scholen.

Onze missie is van onze bezoekers door het proeven, leren, plukken en bewonderen dichter bij de natuur te brengen.

25/10/2026

Moments of beauty

22/10/2026

💜🩵Ampelopsis glandulosa or 🩵💙porcelain berry is a woody perennial climbing vine native to Asia. While it is notorious as an invasive specie in the US, its status is very limited in Europe. The fruits ripen in the fall and come in many colors including green, blue, purple, pink or yellow with black speckles. The birds love these berries!

20/10/2026

My neighbour grows the most amazing peppers, he generously provides for my yearly lacto-fermented hot sauce. It’s a great sauce for gut-health, absolutely delicious and can be stored for more than a year in the fridge! I use it on everything and would be very sad without it.
Ingredients:
- Seeded chilli peppers of your choice
- peeled carrots shredded or in chunks
- garlic (5 cloves or more)
- salt
- filtered water
- a clean jar
🌶️ Pack a clean jar with your seeded chilli peppers, carrots and garlic cloves (whole), press to the bottom of the jar and cover with salted brine (filtered water in which you added 3% salt) add weights to ensure all veggies remain covered in brine.
🌶️ Close the jar, I used an airlock but that is optional a regular jar will do just fine as long as you leave enough room between the brine and the top.
🌶️ Let it ferment at room temperature for about a week, or until the smell is irresistible.
🌶️ Blend it to a smooth texture and add a little c***r or white w**e vinegar and honey.
🔥Bottle it and store for more than a year in the fridge.

15/10/2026

🧄 Plant garlic NOW, harvest next june!

October and November are perfect for planting garlic!

🌱 Here’s how, start by buying organic garlic at your local grocer then:

1. Separate a garlic bulb into individual cloves.
2. Plant each clove 5 cm deep, pointy side up.
3. Space them 10–15 cm apart in well-drained soil.
4. Choose a sunny spot and add some compost.
5. Mulch with leaves or straw to protect the soil.

🌞 Harvest in June or July when the lower leaves start turning yellow.

One clove = one whole bulb! 🧄

Save this for your autumn planting! 🌱

13/10/2026

One plant you NEED in your garden! 🌿

Leycesteria formosa, also known as Himalayan honeysuckle, is a fast-growing, easy-care shrub with gorgeous purple flowers loved by pollinators! 🐝

And the best part? Its ripe, dark purple berries are EDIBLE and taste surprisingly like burnt caramel! 🍮

Beautiful, delicious, great for biodiversity and incredibly easy to grow.

🍂 Plant it this fall! It thrives in sun or partial shade.

10/10/2026

🍎 The easiest, most delicious APPLE TARTE TATIN! Buttery, caramelised, crispy and absolutely irresistible. And SO easy to make!

You need:
🍎 4–5 apples, peeled, cored & halved
🤎 100 g muscovado sugar (my favourite unrefined sugar!)
🧈 50 g butter
✨ A sprinkle of cinnamon
🥧 1 sheet of puff pastry or shortcrust pastry

How to:

1. Melt the butter over low heat in an ovenproof pan. Sprinkle the sugar evenly over the butter. DON’T STIR! Let the caramel work its magic.
2. Sprinkle with cinnamon and arrange the apple halves tightly in the pan, flat side UP.
3. Cover with pastry, tuck in the edges and pierce a few holes.
4. Bake at 210°C for about 45 minutes, until beautifully golden and crisp.
5. Let rest for 5 minutes, then carefully FLIP onto a serving plate!

Serve warm with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream. 🍨

Minimal effort. Maximum deliciousness. 🍎❤️

SAVE this recipe for your next cosy autumn dessert!

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08/10/2026

I’m sharing my obsession with beans with you because what’s not to like?
🫘They flower beautifully for months,
🫘 Produce the most beautiful dried beans you can keep for ages,
🫘 Are absolutely delicious and packed with protein (soak overnight before including them in every stew or soup you will make)
🫘 The plant fixes nitrogen in the soil therefore feeding it.
Honestly my favorite vegetable!
Here a selection of ‘Sacre bleu’, ‘O del Papa’, ‘Yin Yang’ and ‘Borlotto’
Who can resist so much beauty?

06/10/2026

💙 The blue sausage tree!

Meet Decaisnea fargesii, one of the strangest fruits in our garden. Its spectacular blue pods hide a translucent, jelly-like flesh that is sweet, refreshing and delicious!

Eat the jelly-like pulp around the seeds, but don’t eat the seeds themselves.

🌿 Hardy and perfectly happy in our climate
💙 Incredible electric-blue fruits in autumn
😋 Edible jelly-like pulp
👧 A HUGE hit with kids — what child wouldn’t want a blue sausage tree?

Another wonderfully weird edible plant worth making room for in the garden.

04/10/2026

🥬 An Asian-inspired salad — straight from an October garden.

No special shopping list. Use what’s growing locally right now. The only essentials? Cabbage + carrots + this ridiculously good dressing.

🥕 THE SALAD

Red cabbage — white works too

Carrots, shaved into ribbons

Peppers (optional)

Cooked beans (optional)

Scallions — or red onion/shallot

Chives

Cilantro, stems and all — or parsley, basil or dill

Fresh chilli (optional)

Sesame seeds and/or walnuts

🥢 THE DRESSING

Think in parts, so you can make as much as you need:

1 part toasted sesame oil
½ part white w**e vinegar and/or lemon or lime juice
⅓ part soy sauce
1 tsp honey
Salt to taste
+ minced fresh ginger and garlic if you have them!

HOW TO

Slice everything really thinly, shave the carrots into ribbons and whisk the dressing together.

Pour it over the vegetables and get your hands in there — toss and massage until every leaf and ribbon is glossy and coated.

Pile it high. Sprinkle with sesame seeds or walnuts. Add chilli.

Crunchy, fresh, ridiculously good — and almost entirely from the autumn garden. 🌱

Save this one for the next time you have too much cabbage. 🥬

01/10/2026

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