In this category you will find everything that is growing and living outside in the garden, like growing vegetables and fruit and raising animals for there meat and chickens for eggs
I won’t be making Elderflower syrup this year. We had a heavy rain shower with about 30 ml in a short period of time. These flowers are useless for making syrup, but there are some more flowers coming. Maybe I am lucky and can harvest some flowers later.
Planting berry bushes, planting old sprouted potatoes on straw bales and just nice pictures from the garden
Finally we got to it to plant out currants and raspberries. They already show the start of the fruits and we have for joy for the tasty fruits that are growing.
The old potatoes from last year are sprouting in there storage.
I found it a shame to trough them away, so I planted some of them. Beside the hill beds we have a row of straw bales as wind protection. These are already rotting a little on the inside, so we put some soil on there to plant the potatoes in. I also gave the potatoes some cow manure in form of pellets and covered them with some hay. Let’s see what that does this season, because I already saw that the straw bales are collapsing a little bit.
To round up this post I have some nice pictures of the garden here.
I already was on the look out for it
I have been checking my potatoes regularly and everything was Ok until today (Friday 3.6.2022). I wanted to sow something between the potatoes, on the hill beds, which where left in the ground last year and have sprouted and grown beautifully, but left some bare spots. I was happy to see a predator beetle, but at the same time I saw it. The first Colorado potato beetle of this year. So I called the kids to me for help und surged all of the potatoes and found a lot of beetles. Luckily the kids are not disgusted by the beetles and where a great help taking the beetles away from the beds and crushing them. So from today we will be surging for the Colorado potato beetle first thing every day.
Furthermore we have seen that the potatoes are short before going to bloom. That means the early varieties can be harvested soon. We are looking forward to that.
Supplement:
The next day I got the predator beetle in front of the camera and the potatoes already bloomed. Furthermore we found a hand full of Colorado potato beetle again and also found there eggs already.
Beautiful Chaos 