🇬🇧 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 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
🇬🇧 In one of the earlier posts I showed that I seeded hokaido, butternut and melon in egg cartons. These I had filled with soil and then I put a seed in each box. Here is the original post. In principle this worked well for smaller plants. But for pumpkin plants I have to report… Continue reading Better not to use egg cardboard as a planter
🇬🇧 It's incredible what a little compost can do. At the end of April I planted rhubarb as one of the first plants. In order for it to grow well, I added a thick layer of half-rotten compost as a mulch layer. This seems to please the rhubarb really well, and it grows enormously! There… Continue reading Compost makes rhubarb really happy!
🇬🇧 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
🇬🇧After three weeks of fermentation the nettle liquid manure is ready. In order to be able to use it for fertilization and against pests in the future, the plant parts have to be filtered out. This is a particularly pleasant task, because the nettle liquid manure stinks enormously! For storage I have two 10 liter… Continue reading Nettle manure is ready for use
🇬🇧 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
🇬🇧 In May the first nettles have grown big. Therefore I have prepared nettle liquid manure today. In the farthest corner of the garden I found a small "nettle field" where I could harvest enough nettles for a big bucket of manure … and discover that my gloves are not working. I covered the nettles… Continue reading Nettle Liquid Manure
