Category: Garden

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

Removing a plant bed

The dogs demolish my beautiful plant bed

A few years ago I had made a beautiful plant bed against our barn. Since last year we went from one dog to 5 dogs. The 4 new dogs are young and wild and demolish my plant bed. Now I have removed this plant bed and put the plants in a few other beds where the dogs can’t reach them. The wetter was just perfect to do so, because it was cloudy and it rained now and then.

This is what the plant bed looked like.

To start with I removed all the smaller stones with the help of our kids.

We have found different small animals hiding there. The spiders where quickly hiding some where else, so I did not catch them on camera. The isopod on the picture is well camouflaged.

After that I carefully dough out all of the plants and flower bulbs and brought them to our plant beds whit the fens around it.

I planted some plants around a fruit tree and divided the rest of the plants over the 2 new stone beds.

My husband then helped removing the bigger stones and then removed the compost soil. The stones are on a big pile and serve as a lizard house now and the compost soil is inside the fens with the plant beds waiting to be used again.

Where we removed the bed, we filled in some sand to level this up with the surrounding level.

When this was finished I also dough up some more flower bulbs on another place where the dogs constantly walk over them. The flower bulbs won’t be so pretty anymore this year, but next year these beds will be beautiful. To finish these plant beds I divided some wood chips as mulch.

The small stone bed is now full, but the bigger stone bed still has some space for Tomato, Paprika and Egg plant. All dough I also wanted to sow some herbs here. Will see what I do.

The seedlings are doing well

Sowing some more inside

The plantlets I hat sown a couple of weeks ago are developing well. Most of the plantlets have, beside there seed leaves, already developed there regular leaves. Happy with this success I have sown some more. I have sown following:

  • Basil big leave
  • Paprika Liebesapfel
  • Paprika Flynn
  • Paprika Kapiya Vertus
  • Celery root Wiener Riesen
  • Tomate Gardeners Delight
  • Eggplant Lunga

We don’t have much room left on our kitchen table, but it is not long until the plants can go outside.

Planting seed potatoes, onion sets & Garlic

Sowing carrots, red beets and lettuce between the rows

Finally the wetter was improving again and I could make some time for the garden. It is high time to plant the seed potatoes, onion sets and garlic. And while we are at it we are going to sow some faster cultures in between the rows.

I started with the seed potatoes. Our children helped me and we planted 21 kg of seed potatoes. We planted following varieties: Aromata, Ballerina, Folva, Sava, Laura & Belana. Most of these we already hat and we liked them. We had already covered most beds with straw, so first I took the straw down from the bed, laid out the seed potatoes on there place and put them in the ground. Then I divided the straw back on the beds. We filled 11 beds with the seed potatoes.

Then we filled 4 beds with onion sets. With 3 beds I sowed 3 rows of carrots in between the rows of onion sets. I also put a layer of straw on these beds, but a thinner layer. I am not sure if it is a good idea to put straw over the sown carrots, but we will see if they come up. I planted following onion sets: Rosanna, Karmen, Alpha, Sturon, Stuttgarter Riesen & Snowball. I sowed following carrots: Robila, Treenetaler, Rote Riesen 2, Milan & Vitella.

Unfortunately I could throw away half of my garlic because they had mold. My storage possibility was not so good for the garlic. So I could not even fill 2 beds with garlic. With one bed I sowed 2 rows of red beets in between the rows of garlic. With the other bed I sowed half rows with the following: Turnip, leafy greens, winter posteline and Asian salad mix. For the garlic I had following varieties: Edenrose, Flavor, Cledor. Here I also put a thinner layer of straw to cover the bed.

The children had a lot of fun helping and where eager to also fill there own beds. Next week the sowing goes on with other vegetables.