Colorful Garden Chat Picture Thread

What do you use to secure the stones?

You should use trass cement, which prevents efflorescence. As long as your path and the granite blocks are level with the ground, you don't need to make them double-row. Between lawn and flowerbed, one row is not enough; 9-11 cm is definitely too little.

After three quarters of a year, we are still far from finished, but I am satisfied with our interim status. After all, last year we were able to check off the lawn, the terrace, the garden shed, and the hedges all around.



Only with a baby do you really notice how limited time is, so the current motto is "only work that saves work," and so far the bark mulch keeps the weed flood well under control. Actually, I wanted to place the granite cubes around the garden shed, but that's slipping further down the priority list. Since neither of us is very talented at garden design, we are eagerly awaiting the design ideas from our gardener; the first meeting was very good, with many ideas to make it less boring but also not maintenance-intensive.

We had three millimeters of rain the whole of April and now until May 19th. People water, irrigate, but growth is slow,

It is indeed more humid here, but I know the soil conditions. Good that we were able to drill a well or plunge, groundwater is at an average of 2.9 meters. The two-hundred-something-euro tip pump from the hardware store has now been hanging in the hole for over 15 years and serves well. I took it out once to see what it looks like - probably wasn't necessary. You can save quite well here permanently.

There will probably be no groundwater access in the new house anymore

Well, before I drill a well, I prefer to use the [Sprengwasserzähler] that we installed and registered with the waterworks. I pay 1.50 per cbm for it, and no sewage charges. That is bearable. Karsten

Nordlys, then we even moved in at the same time - but we, as I said, into an old building with an existing garden.

I have mostly had good experiences with plants from the clearance sale. I especially like to buy all kinds of things that are heavily discounted in the fall. Then it is the best planting time for most plants anyway and the hardware stores want to get rid of everything over the winter. These plants usually don’t look so good anymore, but generally recover well.

We had almost no precipitation here this April, last year almost none at all... this May has been okay so far though. But I also have a separate meter so that I don’t have to pay sewage charges on the watering water. And I also have almost 1800L capacity in a total of 6 rain barrels, so a lot is collected when it does rain.

Ares, that’s at least a start. What kind of shrubs do you have in that row?

Rain barrels are still coming

We are being warned about heavy rain
First my plants get sunburned and now they are being drowned

We are very lucky to have a well. That was really brilliant just last year – otherwise, my mother-in-law’s English lawn wouldn’t have survived. We also managed to keep the neighbor’s lawn going over the summer; he had to reseed and gladly accepted our offer.

On Saturday, I went out with the single-axle cultivator and worked the vegetable bed. This year, there is only a reduced selection of vegetables; there are so many other tasks pending that I unfortunately have to/may reduce here. There will still be lettuce, beans, zucchini, and pumpkin; tomatoes and cucumbers grow anyway in the greenhouse. Part of the vegetable bed I will sow with flowers, it looks nice and is good for the soil and the little creatures too. And hopefully, next year it will be fully cultivated again.