if you ever had courgettes in your garden or on your balcony you know what i mean saying that courgettes are the gardeners best friend. particularly if you have more than one plant, you will always have at least one … Continue reading →
onions are easy to grow and good to store. and in addition, they are great supporters to fight pests of neighboring vegetables, such as strawberries, carrots and lettuces.
the main reason to grow broad beans for me is, that you usually can’t buy them in supermarkets or greengrocers. but over time i read so many recipes with broad beans that i really wanted to try them out.
it is time to harvest potatoes. i find it not easy to know when they are ready, as you can´t see the fruits your looking for. so you have to look at the plants.
of course you can propagate lettuces out of seeds. but you have to be a very experienced gardener to be successful. you have to sow in rows as thin as you can because you have to thin out the young plants afterwords. but that´s not all. Continue reading →
here comes the first big harvest of the main season and it makes me always very happy to see how all the things work and to know, this is just the beginning! we sowed the chard and beans in spring … Continue reading →
may i introduce, teltow turnips. for all of you who never ever heard about them, they are a speciality of the german region brandenburg, in particular of the city teltow. yes you are right, turnips grow everythere, but these kind … Continue reading →
it is time to harvest cherries! and it is the first year ever that we can harvest cherries. the last years we missed the cherries not because of the trees have been to young or to old to produce fruits … Continue reading →
first of all, these kind of lettuce are the easiest and modest ways of having some own greens. all you have to do is to sow them in rows in early spring and wait. no thinning out or other special … Continue reading →
