News from our vacation home renovation

A lot has happened in the last months, both on our construction site and in the vegetable garden and orchard. But today's article is dedicated to our house renovation progress. You will find a summary of what has happened since February. Under the roof - February 2021At the beginning of this year we finally managed …

Gardening in spring

Besides our renovation work (Youtube https://youtu.be/YBb-v9oHF-Y) and the wood cleaning on the property (Youtube https://youtu.be/mh06blIjaDI), I managed to start sowing vegetables in time. However, the weather has been going crazy for months, after the flood in January we had 2 months of complete drought followed by continuous rain. As I write this article, cool rainy …

Water everywhere – Floods in south-west France Jan/Feb 2021

Each time when we have seen in the news that there are floods or other catasthrophes we felt sorry for the people, but these problems were far away and we were somehow happy not to be affected.This year with the heavy rain falls we didn't worry during the first weeks of January when it wouldn't …

Harvest and store flower seeds

January is one of the quietest months for the gardening year. Therefore, sorting and cataloguing the collected seeds is a good winter task. We would like to offer our bees even more food in the new garden season and sow many more flowers. Besides new seeds from the garden centers or online shope, I will …

Our record harvest 2020 – Part 2

As promised in the last harvest article, here is the second part of our super veggie harvest 2020. I list the vegetables by order of success: BeansFor us, beans have been the most productive vegetable in 2020 after tomatoes. The biggest surprise for me was to get a second crop of the same bush bean …

The progress on our construction site

Today an article about our renovation. Even though we report a lot about our garden, the trees and our plantings, we are constantly working on our construction site.It really takes a long time, but we are only the weekends on site. We have already achieved a lot, but there is still enough work waiting for …

Preparing our fruit orchard for winter

Today I present you our fruit orchard and how we prepared it for the winter.We planted the first little trees in 2017 in our orchard. There were already an old quince and 2 old apple trees present on this place. In the last three years we have enlarged it with many trees and shrubs. This …

Traffic jam at night in the forest

Today a short article with a link to a new video on our little YouTube channel. I summarized all the animals recorded by our wildlife camera in one video. https://youtu.be/afikiWyOVh8 The Vecture camera works best during the day or in the early evening, but as soon as there is moisture at night the lens fogs …

Our record harvest in 2020 – Part 1

This year is a year of superlatives for our garden season. We have harvested like never before and are still doing so. This has several reasons The activation of our well for automatic watering of the vegetable garden (here the link to the video: https://youtu.be/h0Xuwe86Gg4)The completion of all nine raised beds. You can read the …

We have renovated our old well

After the repeated heat waves of last summers, we decided to renovate one of the old wells on the property. The eternal watering can rounds took up to 2 hours. With this renovation we are able to save the watering time for the vegetable garden. We operate the sprinkler automatically.For those of you who prefer …