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Winter solstice surprises

on December 21, 2018

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Apple pie

The herb garden bed is still waiting to be finished. I planted some thyme and oregano that I still had in pots from the old house. I'm not sure they will get through winter. But we haven't had any frost yet, so who knows. Our new bird feeder needs to be repaired too. It crashed over during Friday's storm (windforce 9) and bits of the roof came off. Pity it's not the best weather to work in the garden. Hail storm So, I stayed inside and made apple pie instead. What apple pie looks like on the Internet: http://koekjevaneigendeeg.blogspot.nl/ What apple pie looks like when I make it: Ta da

Toasted tomatoes

Last week I sowed some tomato seeds in vermiculite. I put them on a windowsill in our livingroom and checked up on them every other day. Yesterday I saw they had already emerged. Some weren't looking too healthy. In fact, when I took them outside to transplant them, some were even burnt. That's when I realised they might have been in the full sun for too long. I took 6 of the best looking seedlings and put them in their own little pot. Yes, that's a toilet roll. I hope they make it :-) They are Tumbling Tom tomatoes, a trailing variety. The seeds I got are a mix of red and yellow tomatoes. In other garden news: We started work on the veranda and the pond. This is our neighbour Rob, destroying our grass. Rob is also going to dig our pond. I took this photo from the garden doors. This is where the veranda and the pond will be. We will be planting a wildflower meadow in the back towards the trees there. And we're going to plant a beech hedge between properties, where the f

2015

I'm breaking my tradition of not making New Year's resolutions. I'm going to make one resolution: I'm going to blog at least once a week in 2015. Even if it's just posting an Instagram photo. One of the best things of finally having a garden, (besides having the garden) is having birds in the garden. I took these photos through the window (which I need to wash, but there's always tomorrow to do that). Common chaffinch European robin Eurasian blue tit Bird feeding area Kitchen patio That's our little stookhut on the right. I'm not sure how to translate it. All the old farms have stookhutjes. People used to do all the cooking and laundry here, on woodfires. Here's a collection on Google .

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