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 …

Our first honey harvest

After exactly 3 years we could finally harvest our first honey this July 🙂 We were so excited, that we filmed everything. I put together a little Youtube video including taking out the honey frame until filling the jars. https://youtu.be/yIY1oT4dMHs We already did not believe in it any more, because the bees were swarming every …

First results of the garden optimization

Summer has arrived in the Landes and in the vegetable garden nearly everything is growing.I created my very first little video, in order to show you the progress on the vegetable garden. We could already harvest early potatoes and wait now for the next veggies to ripen. https://youtu.be/4-lSSOCcG7U During the past weekends we could already …

Optimisation of the vegetable garden – Part 2

Almost 2 months have passed since the last article about the vegetable garden. A lot has happened since then. The photos speak for themselves. The raised bedsWe have built a total of 9 beds with the following dimensions:6 rectangular beds: 3m x 1m (including 2 brick beds)2 square beds: 2m x 2m1 square bed: 1m …

Our bees and their wanderlust in May 2020

The good news, we were able to get to our bees in the forest despite the corona lockdown restriction. There was an exit permit (derogation) for all beekeepers (professional and hobby beekeepers).This year we tried to prevent the swarming of our ladies, in order to harvest maybe some honey. We gave our strongest bee colony …

Optimization of the vegetable garden -Part 1

This year we will embelish our 100 m2 vegetable garden and at the same time try to grow more veggies. This means that we urgently need to start the work. Due to the Corona crisis we lack various working materials. We will see how the pandemic develops and the lockdown in the next few weeks. …

The new gardening season …

... started for me already in January and February this year, long before the lockdown was imposed. I have acquired some bags of garden soil, planting boxes and all the seeds before the lockdown. Now it is much more complicated. Nevertheless, I ran out of larger plant containers. I was able to order different planting …

A short weekend in the middle of March on our property (14.+15.03.)

Windows We arrived around noon on Saturday. After a short tour around the property, we started straight our work. ElJefe finished installing the roller shutter and anchored it firmly. Then he managed to replace the old small toilet window with the new one on Saturday evening. On Sunday the big bathroom window was replaced. It …

The new windows are in…

We've done it! We have fitted the new windows in the openings created or partly bricked up by the masons 2 weeks ago. The terrace element (29.02/01.03.2020) The most complicated element of all windows was the terrace element to the garden. For this we needed the whole last weekend. That means ElJefe did all the …