We built our garden from wilderness to a productive garden in the present home. There is so much we learnt from zoning, building garden beds, composting, sowing seeds to harvest and finally canning and preserving. Do you want tips to start a garden from scratch, but not sure where to begin? Well, in this post I’ll cover the basics of gardening for beginners like you.
Potatoes are a staple ingredient in many cultures. You can make so many dishes with them, because they are so versatile in their use. I will be sharing tips on how to grow, harvest and store potatoes optimally to the get the maximum from this vegetable.
During such turbulent times, it pays to have some food self sufficiency. That alone should be one of the top reasons to store heirloom seeds. Well, there is definitely more than one reason to store heirloom seeds. These reasons are what I term important for any time in addition to the current global situation.
After the planting season and the tender loving care we give, next phase is the harvest. Read on to see what we got from our no dig summer garden harvest.
Looking for planting inspiration ? Here are some budget friendly no dig garden planting ideas.
It looks like ages since I wrote on the developments we made in our garden. Well a lot is happening now, with the weather getting warmer. Creating a no dig garden this spring was our priority. We wanted to take it seriously after dabbling briefly with it years ago. Read on to get some ideas on how to create a no dig garden.
After a successful gardening year in 2018 Organic-vegetable-harvest with the help of our temporary greenhouse. We decided to build a new permanent greenhouse this year. There are many reasons to build a greenhouse or a hot house as it used to be called in days of yore. In this post I will be citing 3 main reasons to build a greenhouse and why we built ours. I will also touch on the subsidiary reasons pertaining to these main ones.
The laws in Switzerland are very strict with regard to building regulations. More over we have a stream flowing through our plot, so it makes it even more difficult. In the meantime our immediate neighbor built a garden shed last autumn adjacent to our plot. So that kind of gave us the hope that our new permanent green house wouldn’t be an objection to the planning authorities.
A lot of planning and effort has gone in to get a bountiful Organic Vegetable Harvest during June and July. My husband has been at it since autumn last year by planting some of the vegetables which would be ripe for this summer harvest. There is a lot of learning curve in store for us yet to enable us to get more productive in the coming years in order to have a more efficient and productive organic vegetable harvest for the future too. I will try to summarize as much as I can into this post.
