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What do you guys usually do with unripe green bell peppers?? I harvested the last ones yesterday since the first frost is supposed to come soon. I'm looking forward to some recipe suggestions…..

The last two @yacon-138873. By chance, there was one red and one white in each pot. In one pot, the white one produced more, and in the other, the red one. Since they were planted in pots, my husband…

I tried out a few new recipes: an Ethiopian eggplant and bell pepper stew with homemade berbere spice mix. Purple potato dumplings with ratatouille. Padavalanga salad with Sharon fruit and figs. To…

Who says it's winter already? It's still summer here! 😉 Well, at least that's what the raspberries think...

My juicing tower! We should have rented a storage container to go with the allotment garden😁

Voilà—lettuce sown thickly in the fall. It won't form heads, but it tastes good even without them 😉

#lemongrass I'm pretty happy with the experiment. I grew it from a stem I bought. This is only about half the harvest; the rest is still in the pot in the greenhouse. Some of the stems are frozen ind…

Today I brought in almost everything that isn’t winter-hardy. I pruned back the geraniums and fuchsias and put them in storage. That always breaks my heart. .... I harvested ginger, chili peppers, an…

You can tell that fall is here — my roses and artichokes are blooming! 🤓

@patronbernard You might know this: what’s that on top of the wine? At first glance, I thought it might be mold, but it actually looks more like yeast to me. Though it’s such a thick layer 🤔 Do I n…

This year, my celery roots are much smaller than usual, even though the conditions are the same. Was it too warm for the celery, too? 🤔

I wanted to try out a new, pretty—and edible—plant in my pond. Does anyone have any experience with this?

We’re clearing everything out this weekend. Next week, temperatures are set to drop sharply toward zero degrees. @yacon-138873 has been a big hit when eaten raw so far! And I’ve been drinking this l…

It's pumpkin season...and my first time using ginger....

There's still plenty to harvest even at the end of October :)

The last eggplant harvest 🤩 And I’m sure I threw just as many onto the compost pile—all the ones that were already brown (overripe, as I’ve learned). That won’t happen to me again next year. 😁

"Groundhog Day!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pepper season is almost over! I harvested most of them today. Next year, I'll plant a few more early varieties. Unfortunately, the chili harvest is pretty modest. 😁

Hi, I still have a lot of green fire beans left, and I wanted to clear out the garden bed. Temperatures here could drop below zero next week. Are the beans edible at this stage? I usually harvest the…

Dear gardening fans, I’m popping in again after a while😅 I finally managed to bring the chili plants inside. Picture 1) The whole plant is >150 cm 2) I want to dry the red chili peppers. They’re s…

This year, I’d like to grow a few things in the greenhouse over the winter. If anyone has any inspiration, I’d be very grateful. I’d also appreciate any interesting ideas for improving the soil. Last…

...Harvested the last of the pole beans and cut off the vines right away > mulch... ...A few of them were still stringless, but most were pretty stringy! 🤷 ...A bucket full of beans in the trash? ..…

Horseradish! It's fermented with beets and on its own! Yummy

No bird is ever going to eat this caterpillar again. 🤢 It ate my #LilaLuzi. 😡 Photos in the comments.

Have you ever seen anything like this? 😳👀

Unbelievable. I just cut open the last pumpkin from LAST year and enjoyed a delicious soup. Mind you, it was from an early harvest. It was a little stringier and noticeably lighter than a year ago, b…

Today it was time to tackle the hedge. Firethorn is really a pain to trim. It’s best to use hand pruners, and the thorns are brutal. It turned out pretty well, though. 😉 I still need to trim the bra…

Last batch of chili peppers. There are still plenty of flowers, but I’ve had enough. It really was a bumper crop of chili peppers this year. A few people have posted about that here. I’m going to dr…

Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Yesterday I pulled up the last broccoli plants and discovered this oddity. New shoots had formed at the base of exactly one broccoli plant. I’ve pott…

Yesterday I found this Berta. She’s the biggest one in the bumblebee family so far. She was stuck in a dried-up eggplant flower. I gave her a hand and then placed her on a flower in my neighbor’s gar…

My quince bread looked good at first, but since the day before yesterday it has been “sweating out” a lot of sugar water. Further drying in the oven at 70 degrees for several hours didn’t help. It’s …

Planted in the fall. 😊 I’m proud of my medlar tree! Now I just hope I don’t mess up this experiment and that my first medlar jam turns out delicious. So far, I’ve only tried Staud’s, and I think it …

How can you tell whether a hoverfly is a female or a male? I zoomed in on the head of the dung bee (also known as the false bee or wedge-spotted hoverfly). In hoverflies, males have larger eyes that …

My wildly growing tomato monster just yielded over 4 kg... from a single plant, and those are just the leftovers that didn't quite ripen! The garden is slowly emptying out, but the pak choi is going …

Today was a wonderful day! Office work can wait—what’s the point of being self-employed, anyway??!!! Filled up the raised bed, put together a mini greenhouse, and planted the remaining cabbage plants…

Just like a painting. Woodpecker ink drawings 🥰

...you never stop learning! ... Yesterday, a friend who loves gardening brought me these quinces... Up until now, I knew there were apple- and pear-type quinces, both of which are usually only enjoye…

I didn't see the hooded dron coming—we'd already had quite a bit. 🤣 Such a gorgeous plant—even now, it's still delighting us with its flowers and lush greenery. ❤️🤷‍♂️

Today I finally cleared out the tomato bed and harvested another basket of tomatoes to let ripen. Once everything is cleaned up, I'll plant spelt as a green manure. Next season: beans and...? I'm st…

What do I do if I have started cultivating very late in the year? All my seedlings were destroyed in a storm so I lost about a months worth of growing. They would’ve been in the soil by now.

#Alexandro, that was a great idea!!! Pesto made from Mexican giant marigolds is really delicious! Thanks for the sprigs! And here's my first attempt....

Yesterday we got ready for our garlic and onion season! We harvested pumpkins and beans, spread some rock dust and fresh soil—and now the garden bed is ready! Now we’re just waiting for the perfect …

...as I mentioned recently: The chili beds have been "harvested," so now it's time to start chopping for my "world-famous" sweet chili sauce... ...I’ll maybe tell you another time what the deal is wi…

Things always turn out differently than you expect. That thick branch and lots of small twigs fell from my neighbor’s corkscrew willow right into my flower bed. I was lucky enough to be able to repai…

Today, in polytunnel 3, I harvested 20 'Rudi' radishes and 20 'French Breakfast F1' radishes for an order. They're really huge—but see for yourselves.

Made with ripe tomatoes... a tomato galette... Super delicious

...I "harvested" the chili patch 3 days ago. Now it's time to start processing them—I'll keep you posted! 👋

...throwing things away isn't really my thing! ...My man-sized kaffir lime tree needed to be pruned a bit for winter storage... Result: 1 salad strainer full of kaffir lime leaves 😳 ...what to do wi…

Has anyone ever seen something like this before and can tell me what it is? I found these (and others) weird “tubers” in my old pumpkin patch. Are they part of the pumpkin, or maybe couch grass or so…

Hi everyone 😃 Two and a half months ago, I wrapped some nectarine seeds in a damp paper towel and put them in a can in the fridge in the garden. Four weeks ago, we turned off the fridge. Up until…