Recent Posts Tagged With 'grow your own'

• 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...