Autumn is here and these are apples from one of our apple trees in the kitchen garden. These are quite sour when they start dropping from the tree but we also have another tree with perfect sweet red apples that are perfect to eat right off the tree. These, on the other hand, are sour
He has been growing fruits and vegetables for four years now together with his wife Joyce. They preserve part of what they grow in a root cellar and they even have enough to sell some of it at the local market. Propagation by seeds, cuttings and root division is a big part of their gardening
The dust has finally settled after our move from the old house to the new rented house, but there’s still a lot of things that need to be cleaned up, sorted and put into the right place. Unfortunately, the space I had in my old 30 m2 (320 ft2) garage shrinked to a small 4 m2
Unfortunately for me no bumble bees came this year to nest in my homebuilt 5 star bee hotel. The glue that I used for the roof to glue the two pieces of wood together did not withstand the weather, so I turned to plastic cable binders (again) to keep the roof in place. It must
So far the young peach tree is doing well behind the plastic canopy I built earlier. Fortunately there’s no sign of peach leaf curl, so hopefully the canopy is keeping the tree dry. When the spring sun is shining from a clear sky the temperature is quite high behind the plastic. It’s almost like a
