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 hand picking […]

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 them on the window ledge in […]

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 is called […]

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 had started yesterday to […]

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 […]