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News from our vacation home renovation

18 November 202117 November 2021 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading News from our vacation home renovation

Gardening in spring

23 May 2021 / Irotchka / 2 Comments

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 … Continue reading Gardening in spring

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

13 February 2021 / Irotchka / 4 Comments

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

Harvest and store flower seeds

31 January 202131 January 2021 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading Harvest and store flower seeds

Our record harvest 2020 – Part 2

18 January 2021 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading Our record harvest 2020 – Part 2

The progress on our construction site

14 December 202013 December 2020 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading The progress on our construction site

Preparing our fruit orchard for winter

25 November 202024 November 2020 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading Preparing our fruit orchard for winter

Traffic jam at night in the forest

3 November 20203 November 2020 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading Traffic jam at night in the forest

Our record harvest in 2020 – Part 1

5 October 20205 October 2020 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading Our record harvest in 2020 – Part 1

We have renovated our old well

21 September 202020 September 2020 / Irotchka / Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading We have renovated our old well

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