Recent Posts Tagged With 'gardening'

• Growing grapes

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 08:03 in garden, gardening, grapes, grow your own, life in germany

  The weather has been kind over the last week.  The autumn sunshine has started to bring some colour to my grapes. Of course we’ve been eating them non-stop. With around 600 bunches of grapes to deal with, you can’t let up for a day. You...

• Growing purple cauliflower in Germany

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 02:06 in garden, gardening, vegetables, grow your own, life in germany, purple cauliflower

  I mentioned before that I’m growing my own vegetables this year. One of the things I wanted to do was pick varieties that I wouldn’t normally be able to buy in the shops – or at least not without having to remorgage the house to aff...

• Hedgehog update

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 03:12 in garden, gardening, hedgehogs, kohlrabi, grow your own, life in germany

  I was out in the garden this morning collecting some vegetables for Sunday lunch and there on my peas was an enormous brown slug. Now that I have a family of hedgehogs living in my garden, I know exactly what to do with slugs. I wrapped it up in a le...

• Is it a plant, is it an alien?

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 01:05 in Germany, gardening, vegetables, german food, kohlrabi, life in germany

  I’ve mentioned before that I’m growing my own salad and vegetables this year. In keeping with my infiltration of German society, I thought I’d better grow some proper German veg. And what could be more German than having your garden...

• Teenage boys - what’s not to like?

  Posted on Sunday June 8th, 2008 at 04:27 in gardening, teenage boys, life in germany

  Last Autumn our lawnmower finally went phut. Died. Ceased to mow. Went to the celestial greenhouse…. Being somewhat disorganised, and reluctant gardeners at that… we haven’t got around to replacing it yet. So when the boy’s te...

• Kittens exploring the garden

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 07:51 in cats, gardening

  We decided to keep three of the kittens in the end. This week they had their debut in the big wide outdoor world. It’s been wonderful watching them explore their new domain. The sheds and woodstores have been popular - there are some great hid...