Happiness for the busy self-sufficient is a day without sun. Then there is finally the possibility that you can have the first 150 autumn spores planted. Later it will hopefully be just as good weather so roughly the same number of winter leeks...
In the middle of October last year, I sowed carrots in a manure bench - an attempt that I hardly believed in myself, but there was nothing to lose, as the bench still had to be sown with carrots the following March. Almost 2 months later - in...
It is not to make lettuce sprout in this heat, so the seeds must go for a walk in the fridge.
Another damp coffee filter is placed over, which is airtight with plastic film around, and then into the cold for 3-4 days.
When you can see...
The broccoli here was sown in September, overwintered in pots in the greenhouse and planted in the manure bank in March.
The last few years I have been experimenting with planting quite densely - as many as 13 plants of 1 m2. It still gives...
With a half-sized kitchen garden on an ordinary residential plot, you easily end up in a chronic deficit of material for the compost box. Especially in the summer, when most of the green waste ends up with the hens, at the same time as the...
If you observe garlic or onions, which are already yellowing and withering, there is a good chance that they are attacked by the fungal disease white rot.
One can easily ascertain this by digging up a plant: often they are already quite...