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🇬🇧 Every year, I decorate the house for the first Advent Sunday. It is important to me that there is an Advent arrangement with some candles, that I can light during December - one more candle every Sunday. This Advent tradition is not common in the Netherlands, so it was all the more important to… Continue reading Advent decoration 🎄
🇬🇧 I just noticed that I have already built my new greenhouse in April, but I have hardly reported about my favorite place so far. Now the greenhouse has accompanied me for a summer and deserves to be introduced. Greenhouse attached to the shed. The grass is still brown from the summer drought. The greenhouse… Continue reading Greenhouse
🇬🇧 The plants in the greenhouse are long withered and the fruits are already harvested. It was time to remove the plants. The space can be used more wisely before the first frost can cause damage to the plants in the garden, which I would like to bring over the winter. Herbs can be used… Continue reading Herby preparation for winter
🇬🇧 The homegrown marigolds have been doing very well for a while. Now they have grown high and the first flowers have faded. This is not only looking a bit sad, but the flowers are also heavy. In rainy and windy conditions the flowers tend to fall over. Marigolds can be pruned. Simply cut off… Continue reading Cutting faded marigolds
🇬🇧 A few days ago, after a warm start to the summer, the weather changed after a heavy storm. Unfortunately the storm also knocked down some of the plants. To be prepared for further wind I used a trick, which I saw in an English garden show. The English use brushwood to stick it between… Continue reading Anti-Storm Sticks
🇬🇧 In Germany there is a garden tool called "Sauzahn" (= sow tooth, but there is no really good translation for it). The Sauzahn is a tool for working the soil. A single long crescent-shaped tine is mounted on a handle, with a small plough-sharp leaf at the tip. The Sauzahn is used to loosen… Continue reading Self made tool “Sauzahn”
🇬🇧 The kitchen garden is surrounded by a thick beech hedge, in which several generations of sparrows (Passer domesticus) live. I like the little fellows. They are always in a good mood and come and peck the insects from my plants. Now the young birds are fully fledged and jump back and forth in the… Continue reading Mangold and Sparrows
🇬🇧 As already announced in one of the last posts, the cucumber plants should still get a climbing aid. It is especially practical if there is a bamboo growing in the area without a root barrier, and you have to limit it a bit anyway. So I had enough long, straight bars to build a… Continue reading Bamboo climbing aids
🇬🇧 As I already told in my previous post, I used horse dung for my cucurbits (Cucurbitaceae), like pumpkin (Cucurbita var.), cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and zucchini (Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo convar. giromontiina), and sugar melon (Cucumis melo). I want to spend a separate post on the process of planting and explain a bit more. For… Continue reading Floor heating for cucurbits
🇬🇧 As it was difficult to get the planned plants this year, a bed in the kitchen garden remained empty. This bed is right in front of a window and was actually planned for the insect-friendly, beautifully flowering plants, such as Lantana (Lantana), Vanilla Flower (Heliotropium arborescens) and Sweet Alyssum (Alyssum). Meanwhile I have sown… Continue reading Sowing edible flowers
