It seems that the slugs are retreating. Over the last few days there haven't been as many slugs in the beer traps and all the other ones we find seem to be dead. We deduct from this, that our triple play strategy is working out for us. Beer traps, jars of cornmeal and...
The first seeds get planted
Since the garden is progressing quite nicely and we believe we will have everything ready for planting outside in the beds as well as in the greenhouse relatively soon, we decided to start a few seeds today to get our first batch of homegrown veggies. We've had to put...
We made a deal on Gardena stuff
The sad news first. After taking a look at Gardena's US website, it appears that they don't sell the drip systems over there. Not a major problem for us since our little farm is here in Germany, but very sad for all of our readers in the US.The control unit we wanted...
Working in the trenches
Today hubby started on the first major reworking of the plot behind the barn. Since we plan to have gravel paths between the raised plant beds and the perimeter of the garden, we needed to dig trenches about 4 inches deep into which the two layers of gravel will go.We...
Working on the Garden
You may have noticed that it has been quiet on the blog for a few days. Not that we have been lazy, but lately as the weather is getting nicer we are spending more time on the vegetable garden in the back.Since we have said that we will focus most of the garden stuff...
Gardena Microdrip
Since we both work and don't have all the time in the world we are thinking of integrating a drip irrigation system into the raised beds. A company which is very big here in Germany has the perfect system which comes in many different modules one can piece together....
Staking out the vegetable garden
Today we finally started staking out our vegetable garden. Let me start off by saying it took way longer than we had expected. Our garden is pretty asymmetrical and making a rectangle in the middle took quite some effort, despite our measurements we took last...
Planning a raised bed garden
Our garden layout is comprised of several raised beds with a gravel path running around the entire garden and dividing up the garden into smaller beds. The path will also run around the greenhouse. We've been doing some research about the beds and have found some...
Welcome to the Killing Fields – handpicking slugs
Today we tackled the slug situation in our yard again. We are getting started with planting and building the greenhouse and there is no room for the slimy mess that has been stealing our tender little salad plants. When we went into the garden today, all I could say...
Building your own compost bin (part 1)
This afternoon we started what we figured would be a pretty short and simple process. Of course any time you're doing something for the first time, it tends to take a bit longer and be slightly more challenging than you expected. But I think we still managed to come...
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