Are home gardens no longer desired?

  • Erstellt am 2018-05-06 13:50:20

Anoxio

2018-05-07 13:59:12
  • #1
I love our vegetable garden! Three years ago, I started using it again. Two greenhouses and a herb bed were already there and lay fallow, as well as most of the equipment.
The vegetable bed is about 100 to 120 sqm in size, plus a long strip along the fence to the neighbor; I planted this strip with strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, blueberries, and a dozen currant, gooseberry, and jostaberry standard trees.

There were also apple trees, an old vine by the house, and a magnificent old walnut tree. Additionally, I planted sour and sweet cherries, flat peaches, various plums, pears, and quince; and a mini kiwi by the house.

The herb bed is relatively low-maintenance; most of the plants come back every year: oregano, chives, mint, lemon balm, sage, lovage, tarragon, and thyme are quite hardy. I only need to replant parsley and lemongrass.

I grow the vegetables for the bed and the greenhouses myself from seed. This year there are various tomato varieties, cucumbers, and eggplants in the greenhouses. Outside, radishes, leaf lettuce, radicchio, carrots, beets, potatoes, Brussels sprouts, beans, sugar peas, pickling and field cucumbers, zucchini, kohlrabi, Swiss chard, physalis, and savoy cabbage are being cultivated.

That’s quite a lot, and of course it all needs to be processed. But I really enjoy being able to preserve all kinds of delicacies in summer and autumn, which then provide a welcome change in winter. I no longer have to buy jam, and all fermented vegetables are made myself. I want to expand this even further in the future, which is why there are all those new little trees :)

Working in the garden is relaxation for me. In the morning, the walk to the greenhouses, watering, opening the doors, checking on the plants, weeding a bit here, pricking out a few seedlings there and repotting them, tying up the plant... wonderful!

It varies with the neighbors. Neighbor 1 hardly has any land, 2 fruit trees, a lot of paving - but he also says that although he would like to have a bed, the amount of work puts him off. Neighbor 2 has 2 raised beds and a few fruit trees. Neighbor 3 has a greenhouse and some beds, mostly providing for himself with vegetables. Neighbor 4 has no land except a terrace and carport. Neighbor 5 is the same.

I think it’s a shame that plots are mostly getting smaller and short grass is preferred over a bed. Depending on your own standards, you really don’t have to invest a huge amount of time; you can easily adapt the plants to your own taste and the planned time investment. Anyway, I am a fan of old cottage gardens – so there are also various little flowers growing in my bed (which are especially interesting for insects), and in front of the house I have about 100 sqm worked over and sown with wildflowers.
 

cschiko

2018-05-07 14:06:12
  • #2
We also have quite a bit on our ~400sqm, it is nice to produce some things ourselves. We have a small apple tree, a dwarf pear tree, raspberries, blackberries, currants, blueberries, a fig, and strawberries (Mieze Schindler and wild strawberries). In addition, there are tomatoes, lettuce, and radishes.

But we are just starting to "create" the garden and over time more things will be added. Especially zucchini, kohlrabi, rhubarb, and probably also beetroot. And if it fits, a few more fruit trees (cherry, plum, another apple). Then also herbs, most of which grow in watered pots in the kitchen.
 

chand1986

2018-05-07 16:14:10
  • #3
A follow-up on the topic: What do children learn, how and where?, I would still like to provide.

With the kitchen garden, my focus is on the direct experience of producing food, in this case fruit and vegetables. This is something that leaves few traces without almost daily contact. That is why I consider learning farms better than no learning farms, but still alibi events measured against what I mean. School gardens would be better.

I had also thought further about the slaughterhouse visit. After all, most people want to eat meat. The sentence "My child knows that animals have to die for that and also allows the great white shark to have its seal" does not come close to what I think children should be taught. Abstractly knowing that meat does not grow on trees but is a dead animal is better than knowing nothing at all. But still only one eighth of the story.

Occasionally being present live when a living being is put to death is an experience that everyone who eats meat should actually endure. In my personal opinion, you can only gain access to this if you get your hands dirty yourself – I used to do that. The fact that I could do that is the only reason I still eat meat. Killing a fish or a mammal is a world of difference, btw.

"I see that in documentaries" I consider even more of an alibi than learning farms.

Or to put it directly: Yes, from a certain age, children should be shown that they would have to kill a rabbit if the rabbit roast is to be served (or the animal of choice). Live and in color.
The anonymized killing in factories alienates people from the product – no wonder many people don’t find chicken for 2.99/kg strange but complain when there are no special offers.

Implementing the whole thing for animal products is of course difficult. A kitchen garden is simply the first, easier escalation stage to make people aware of the value of food. Something only becomes conscious through emotional connection and experience. Not through television.
 

zizzi

2018-05-07 18:18:44
  • #4
Wow...So many comments in less than 2 days, by now I can't keep up with the topic anymore. Many are in favor of fruit, vegetables, and herbs from their own garden, and that is wonderful. Simply thumbs up. you see, you are not alone we are in this together, can you just give a basket of your own garden products to your neighbor and motivate him, maybe he will join in too ;-)
 

yellow_ms

2018-05-07 18:40:31
  • #5
We have, in our current rental apartment on the roof terrace, among other things, lettuce and strawberries in wine crates, a raspberry bush, radishes in the flower boxes, and various herbs. And of course, these will also make it into our new garden. Our two-year-old is enthusiastic, and last year she already liked picking the strawberries.

I would actually be happy to see even more pictures here ;)
 

Bieber0815

2018-05-07 21:10:56
  • #6
How old was the tree? I mean, it may happen that the harvest fails once, but generally apricots are frost-resistant/winter-hardy.

There are also columnar or espalier fruit trees ... Fits in the smallest corner.
 

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