Garden Pictures Chat Corner

No, it was not directed at you. Once again, the "red rag" farmers were raised.

With the burning, I would a) fear that more would catch fire b) that it has never helped with pavement joints.

Take a look at the documentary "Unsere große kleine Farm." It nicely shows how everything takes its time until it is in balance.

I only have aphids on the elderberry. It has to deal with it, it's no different in nature. It also stands far enough back from other plants. Unfortunately, our chestnut tree is already showing leaf miner moth spots again, but not too many yet. We burned the leaves for years as widely recommended, but apparently it did not help. Now it has to cope on its own; it is now too big and has too many leaves, which we also cannot remove from the thicket behind the garden. Otherwise, almost all the bushes we planted in the front garden survived the transplant. And they were all 1.5 to 2 meters tall and planted with others in the soil. Only one cherry laurel did not want to.

Nice that your "old trees" survived the transplanting so well

The last 2 years it worked well first with lice then with natural enemies. This year I have hardly seen any ladybugs, but quite a few parasitic wasps – still not enough. Sometimes there are tits around collecting, but far from enough.

We had an extremely large number of May beetles in the village – but hardly any flying ones, they were all more or less torn apart on the ground :(
So birds of course and then run over...

Ah OK... I'm also unsure about the burning thing. Burning too much probably can't happen. It's not nearly as intense as with a gas cylinder and I don't want that anyway. We'll see.