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January in the cottage garden
Today feels like spring - it is only the beginning of January! We let the chickens in the garden in good weather to run free:
Marie (the lady left), the moulting and looks pretty tore out ...

Autumn in the Country House Garden:

also ornamental plants are part of the Cottage Gardens:

Tricyrtis hirta

... the toad lily

This year she leads in the truest sense of the word in the shadows - the greater the joy when the delicate lily opens in the fall of your flowers.
you can be up to 1 m high and is growing at the ones at the non-dry shade. It flowers from September to October.

Hydrangea "Limelight"

here is a detail from November. The main flowering of Bauernhortensie is from August - September.
But even after the actual flower, it forms an eye-catching in the garden.
Be it as morbid, parchment transience in the fall or in January sugared with rime, a glittering jewel in the garden.
Who wants to miss that?
cut back therefore better not after flowering and are over the winter.
More pictures of Hydrangea Limelight in favorite plants


late summer in the garden in 2010
vegetable garden in September

tomato harvest

tomatoes are finally ripe enough that we can preserve some for winter.
I am preparing sauces, and foster them. A few we also dry. We have made the Excalibur dehydrator apparatus - a very useful device for drying fruits and vegetables. For sauces and meat
Corbarino tomatoes are particularly well suited.

Most cocktail tomatoes We have eaten the same or eaten as a salad.

I ordered over the Internet of old seed varieties.
A few of these tomatoes taste good especially good:

Teardrop (Cocktail, small, very tasty)
Brandywine (tomato meat)

Marianna's Peace (meat tomato)

Corbarino (normal tomato)
Isis Candy (small, orange, very sweet tomato)
Stupice (very early, tasty)
Russian Orange (orange, heart-shaped tomatoes - very decorative and delicious - see picture below)

I usually sow in March and can then harvest from late June (Stupice).

This year was very cool and the harvest is accordingly late and low.

carrots :
today (late Sept), I harvested the first carrots. This year I have tried the variety 'Ingot' because it is not as per description of the carrot fly attack. It's true. The carrots are healthy, have grown and taste problems. Finally no longer necessary networks. I will grow again.

cottage garden

with Hanicklzaun and hornbeam hedge as a windbreak on the back.
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animals natural garden:

food is available for the bees to now more difficult, as not so much in nature such as flowers in spring.
are in our own garden so plants that bloom in September also important food for the bees.
for our fruit trees need We in the spring the bees as pollinators. We therefore seek to wild bees to locate and set up insect hotels. As food for the fruit blossom as we have Phacelia (aptly named bee friend) sown in one of the vegetable beds. Also adopted by all kinds of insects you.

are very popular at the time as a forage crop the hair flower and fat hen:

Even weeds that flower just provide nectar. Therefore, I let some of them give you.

A hedgehog family lives in the compost and the garden shed.
Each year, chickadees, starlings, blackbirds and many other birds to nest in the garden. We have put a lot of nest boxes.
A few bats circling in the twilight of the property - but the ready made bat boxes have not been obtained.
Well-known roommate of course we have. These tiny looked so nice, the course should remain:

The titmice use the bird houses in the winter as sleeping quarters:

chickens in the farmer's garden:

our girls are the Berta and Resi at the Garden Inspection:

insert eggs diligently and we are supplied throughout the year well.
In the fall I let it run free in the garden, so they eat worm eggs and larvae.
Here are all four: Mary, Berta, Resi and Hilde:












The two of us are running up - or in the case of the Dove - flown:

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