We decided to make a more detailed and flashier chicken tractor video. The chickens are helping us to prepare the ground for our new no dig vegetable garden about the size of an allotment plot (100sqm). The grass gets eaten and scratched up while the ground is fertilized. Watch how much of a difference only […]
In this video we’re showing you how to start 7 different edible tubers including the Potato, Oca, Mashua, Ullucus and Yacon from south America and the Apios and Jerusalem Artichoke or Sunchoke from north America. Some of them are frost sensitive and are best started indoors in a greenhouse before planting them out. Others are […]
Fig trees were rather common in walled estate gardens during the 18th century and some are still standing today. Nowadays they are surprisingly rare in home gardens even though nearly as accessible as other more common fruit trees such as apples or plums. They are quite ornamental for a fruit baring tree and the leaves […]
Here’s our first tour of the nursery greenhouse at the beginning of the 2020 growing season. Since early March we have been starting plants from seed and we kept our new strawberry and raspberry plants indoors until now to give them a head start. These are now being moved outside making space for our tubers. […]
We decided to bring part of our veg patch directly to the backdoor of our house. This makes it so much more convenient to harvest crops we use on a daily basis such as salads and baby leaf kale. We are looking forward to having fresh greens harvested only minutes before eating them, so much […]
In this video we’re talking about 5 medicinal herbs that help your body fight viruses and bacterial infections. These herbs also help to clear congested lungs. Some of them are known as culinary herbs commonly used in cooking, but often underrated for their medicinal properties. You can grow them at home in your garden or […]
We have been growing Jerusalem artichokes for 5 years now and we have added 4 more varieties in the last year. It’s interesting to see our first proper harvest comparing all 6 varieties we are growing. They are also known as Sunchoke because they are a tuberous sunflower and they come in many shapes and […]