We started making our first batch of wine last week from some of the gooseberries in our yard. We stopped in Hornbach (home improvement store) really quickly, sort of by accident, because we knew there was an ATM inside the store and couldn't seem to find one anywhere...
Be careful with ammonia!!!
I wrote in my post yesterday, Slug hunting with ammonia, that I had sprayed some of the plants and whatever slugs I found in the greenhouse yesterday morning with slugs. I did in fact do that and it wasn't until Stefan came home in the evening and went to check on...
Fabulous Farmhouse Searches Vol. 6
This will be a somewhat short list of searches this week but at last there are a few new ones to talk about. I tried to keep them short today because I have a lot of other stuff to get done but keep searching everyone! 😉 does egg plant grow on a vine No. Eggplants...
Slug hunting with ammonia
Last weekend we finally managed to get our hands on some ammonia. You actually have to buy it at the pharmacy here and they actually had to order it for me which was almost amusing. Turned out to be €11 for 1 liter which is a whole lot more than you'd pay at in the...
New plants & decor for the courtyard 🙂
Yesterday during our visit to Rüdesheim we wandered by a pretty good wine store called Dr. Nagler. We've bought many bottles of their Reisling over the past few years and also ate at their restaurant over Christmas. Very decent food and not bad prices either,...
Growing peppers
I'm saddened to report that I was starting to compose the latest searches that led to this blog and there is nothing new and interesting in the collection. Well, there was one which was kind of interesting which asked what spacing should be used when planting habenero...
Photos from the harvest and our new freezer trunk
Somehow I completely forgot about adding photos to my post yesterday so I will post them now. Must have had a blond moment :)Here's a photo of our red current harvest. As I said, it came out to about 3.5 kilos which isn't so bad. We really aren't sure what we will...
Eating our first harvest of veggies
Tonight at dinner we ate our first zucchinis and cucumbers from our greenhouse. The zucchinis were still rather small but Stefan prepared them with lots of fresh black pepper and salt, diced onions, garlic and some white wine and they turned our really tasty. Then we...
Taking the storage buildings back from the vines
We intended to start removing bird houses from the horse stalls today but ran into some problems getting the shelving off the wall. The previous owner used some massive braces to support it and we couldn't use the new angle grinder to cut it off because it made far...
How does your garden grow?
I try to keep the garden related posts to a minimum on here since we have a separate blog for that now and because I figure that most people renovating their homes don't necessarily have the time of interest left over for gardening. But our plants are exploding in our...
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