Are home gardens no longer desired?

  • Erstellt am 2018-05-06 13:50:20

Evolith

2018-05-07 07:56:33
  • #1
Well, I never wanted to have a kitchen garden. I find it quite a lot of work. I'd rather spend the time on my sea of flowers.
Well, but unfortunately our little one hardly eats any fruit and vegetables, so we try to make it all tasty for him by letting him snack from the tree/bush.
So far: 2 cherry trees, 1 currant bush, blackberries (without thorns), raspberries (the more thorns the better), 1 strawberry runner, potato bed.
Every evening we go outside together and see what has grown so far. That childlike enthusiasm when the first potato plants peek out of the ground and then get hilled up is contagious, and by now I really enjoy it too. By the way, we don’t have much to do with the kitchen garden.
 

Bautraum2015

2018-05-07 08:22:41
  • #2
I love producing products myself. Unfortunately, I currently lack a bit of time, but I am starting small. So far, about 8 different herbs, fruit trees, berry bushes, and wild strawberries have been planted. A large vegetable bed is coming, but not until next year or the year after. And I like greenhouses! where did you get yours? I love our 1500sqm garden, it is already an oasis after two years.... at least that's what our guests say :) for the children it is simply great to go into the garden and snack on currants or raspberries, or to cook jam or syrup with me from them
 

Musketier

2018-05-07 08:22:48
  • #3
In our residential area, there was initially mostly lawn. Gradually, trees/shrubs and plant corners appeared, and here and there a few beds or now increasingly raised beds were added. I believe I have not yet discovered a greenhouse.

Wait a year or two, then you won't be alone with your utility garden anymore.
 

chand1986

2018-05-07 08:59:47
  • #4
I know vegetable gardens from allotment gardens, great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, the same piece of land has been cultivated for three generations. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to continue the tradition, at least not at the ancestral place.

But with gardening – including and especially growing useful plants – I have certainly spent thousands of enjoyable hours. And they were educational!

Unfortunately, I observe a trend that corresponds to what Karsten mentions earlier in the thread. The organic and green idea is being narrowed down to consumption, people are increasingly disconnected from the origin of the goods.

Electricity just comes from the outlet and organic vegetables from the supermarket aisle.

An anecdote that I unfortunately consider representative: When the apartment building where my grandparents live was bought by a Turkish family, they turned the former front yard lawn into a vegetable bed. Beans, leeks, cabbage, lettuce, apple tree, pea trellises. Everything rather wild and mixed up rather than thought out as permaculture – it’s supposed to be low maintenance.

I was very much alone in my opinion that this was a wonderful garden. Only my grandparents could show some understanding from their allotment garden days. You could do it that way. But – wagging finger – not in a German front yard. What would that look like?

Yes, what would it look like? How deliberately cultivated nature looks like in miniature. To rejoice over great products but to not be able to appreciate the aesthetics of their creation is beyond me.

But if I had a single-family house with a correspondingly large garden, I too would have such an un-German messy mixed bed. My neighbors to the left and right would probably think with their chlorophyll deserts: Looks like with the Turks. They’d have to live with it.

But tolerating this doesn’t seem quite in line with the German mindset. Allotment garden regulations with ornamental garden quotas? That’s just crazy...

(Note the shifts between winking and genuine head shaking in the subtext)
 

ypg

2018-05-07 09:09:51
  • #5


But that's the point! I'm not saying that you should buy organic products and go to the gym.

But the topics I mentioned are on everyone's lips. Many want to jump on the "better living" bandwagon.

And precisely for that, it doesn't always have to be the organic product from the supermarket, but can also be the homegrown tomato from the pot in the garden, or the vegetables from your own patch. For children, too, it is a delight and an extra piece of knowledge to see how such a fruit grows. Instead, dozens of playground equipment are placed in the garden for the child. The man signs up at the fitness center instead of mowing the lawn himself, etc.

Everything has become so artificial nowadays; everywhere it's about replacements, even though the good is so close by.
 

Nordlys

2018-05-07 09:16:58
  • #6
To Evolith's dwarf: Don't worry, I'm almost 60, quite healthy, have managed to stay largely fruit and vegetable-free.
 

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