Anoxio
2018-05-07 13:59:12
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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.
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.