Rape, pillage & murder

by | Jun 5, 2007 | Garden

This morning I went out to the garden to set some new beer traps and jars of cornmeal for the slugs. They have been devouring our peanut plants, strawberries and corn plants for the past couple of weeks and it’s time to bring this to an end. Otherwise the only...

Fruit galore

by | May 9, 2007 | Garden

Since we have quite a few fruit trees around the farm, I thought I would share some photos.First, our grapevine growing in the courtyard along the wall of the barn. Last year it actually produced quite a few grapes and we even got to sample a few before the birds ate...

The plants are back in the ground

by | May 9, 2007 | Garden

I’m going to try to catch up on a few LONG overdue posts so here’s a start. 🙂 May 1st was a holiday here in Germany. Since S was out of town for business during the weekend, he decided to take Monday off so we would basically still have a weekend…and...