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I took advantage of the break in the rain to harvest some produce and then spent some time making preserves. Yummy 😋

Hey, I'm currently in Germany, specifically in the OWL region of HF. I brought some seedlings I grew myself from Sweden—anyone want to adopt some? 😉 There’s still 1 blue Hokkaido, 2 Muscat, and 3 Bu…

Our Pfisales are looking great. And they're loaded with goodies.

I was finally able to plant my pre-sprouted potatoes. I filled some mortar tubs with a drainage layer of expanded clay and about 15 cm of compost. I planted the potatoes in the soil, added the remain…

Who comes up with names like that? 😉 The insect crawling under the PinkyWinki wasn't a deer-tailed fly, but a common narcissus hoverfly (post corrected following a tip from @Blausternchen)

My little apple seedlings are doing their best in just 12 square feet 😅 (Okay, they’re getting a little help from sheep’s wool, rabbit droppings, manure, mulch, clay, legumes as bodyguards, and so …

Our ornamental willow got a pretty big crack in its trunk last year. I didn’t do anything about it, and I just discovered that the ants seem to have found the crack too 🧐 They’ve apparently built a …

Can anyone tell me who's leaving the currants in the raised bed and eating them?

The seedlings are coming up slowly. It’s a good thing it drizzles now and then. That way there’s enough moisture,

...phew, finally done: ... true to the motto "Bondage under the tomato canopy" 😎, the tomatoes 🍅 have finally been tied up since the day before yesterday... now they can really get going... ...beca…

A visit among the tomatoes, borage, and chamomile 🦗 And there are ants living on the artichoke plant 🤔 I’ll just let them be for now!

Here's something else in bloom

Here is part 2 of our vegetables

Hello. I’d like to show you the garden beds and crops we’ve recently planted.

#rosesupdate

@blumen2026

Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong with my olive tree and how I can help it recover?

The greenhouse and tomatoes in 2024 and today… it’s working out 🤤 And the arugula is unstoppable this year 🤩

Why do my icicles have so much foliage?

Replenishing supplies… that’s the only way I’m doing it from now on!

Wow... The first chayote is starting to grow. But the plant is still a long way from reaching its full size. Let's see if it works out.

Here’s a quick tour of my garden, too…

Courgettes growing nicely 🤔

Hi everyone, I have 3 rows of potatoes, corn, and beans. Between the plants, I have nasturtiums, marigolds, and savory. Now one of my nasturtiums has these aphids 😱 Should I pull up the whole pl…

...you're supposed to look on the bright side of everything, right? ...Well, the bright side in this case is realizing that my @gelberbuendner-11979 @mangold is also considered "the best Swiss chard…

💫🙏💚The time has finally come: The Fryd Garden Journal is here Maybe you’ve been there: You step out into the garden for a moment, and suddenly ten things catch your eye at once. What’s growing we…

It's such a joy when the garden rewards us with flowers 🌸🌺🌹

What a lively little visitor in my sage 🤗

Hi, Can you tell me when you pinch off the first bud on bell peppers and chili peppers? As soon as it appears, after it has bloomed, or when?

The Evolution of My First Little Vegetable Garden🪴 I planted the herb spiral last year. Picture 1: This is how it looked three weeks ago Picture 2: Dog enjoying the sunny spot in front of the bed Pi…

... I wonder if there will be a good olive harvest in 2026? 😉

Fish chilling 😎

Finally getting back to some real #gardenshopping today! The strawberries are really taking off, and the sugar snap peas are starting to come along. The @sweethorizon-34042 is outgrowing itself, and …

Just a quick peek inside my greenhouse. Things have changed quite a bit in there 😅💚

A few pictures from my garden... 1 Lychee tomato flower buds 2 Pointed cabbage 3 Black Prince beef tomatoes 4 Giant Mexican daylilies 5 Flower buds in the cactus nursery 6 Bellflower 7 Bellflower…

Hi, I need your help again. Woodlice are eating the rootstock of my grafted melons 😞😱 How can I stop this? The rootstock is a Hokkaido squash. Has anyone else had this problem with woodlice on Ho…

This time, I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves... Enjoy!

Hydrangea area

It’s finally all filled and planted 😁 with the mini flower seedlings and lettuce I grew myself. In the back center, I planted Seeet Horizo sugar snap peas, which I’ll let climb up the fence. And on …

Does anyone have any idea how I can get rid of these guys? The whole wild apple tree is covered in them.

However, we also have beds where we don’t grow vegetables, but rather flowers and perennials for floral arrangements and as a food source for insects

The valerian in my marsh bed has exploded into a gigantic bloom and is competing for attention with clematis, starflower, columbine, and brown cranesbill. It’s definitely 2 meters tall 😮 and it sme…

#VarietyTip Carrots have been a total letdown this year! I tried a new variety after years of sticking with the same one—up until now, carrots always required zero effort for maximum yield. Switching…

About three years ago, I tried to transform the existing hill from a wild blackberry thicket into an insect paradise. My biggest problem is that it keeps getting overgrown, and persistent wild perenn…

There aren't that many plants in our new garden yet.

My colorful flowers 🥰

🥬🥬 Lettuce Lettuce Lettuce Lettuce 🥬🥬 My little daughter has (finally!) discovered leafy greens this year and eats almost everything she can harvest from the garden herself. To add a little more …

My very first stress fracture—and of course, it had to happen right now. It’s really getting on my nerves. Luckily, my husband and son are helping me out a lot. All the tomatoes in the greenhouse ha…

These are the remains of our little lemon tree 😢 Spider mites struck over the winter—I first tried home remedies and then Neudorff—it didn't work 🤷‍♀️ Now I'll probably have to throw it away. I’m…

The Sweet Horizont sugar snap pea has much thicker pods…but it stayed very small as it grew 💚