Avalanche to Jam in 5 steps

We had the usual strawberry avalanche - 4.5 kilos of it!

This year - a new adventure. Strawberry jam. Step 1. Cut the 880 g. of fruit.

Step 2. Add juice of 1 lemon and cook in low heat

Step 3. Sterilize the jars. 5 jars into a pre-heated oven, 150 deg C for 10 minutes

Step 4. Add 880g of jam sugar (sugar with pectin) on high heat to bring the mixture to a boil.

Step 5. Into the jam jar!

First Strawberries

The first set of strawberries are here! All ready and packed for school lunch.

Hedge trees

The hedge trees are flourishing!

Fruit Trees

The fruit trees are coming along fine.

Leaves on the fig tree are shooting out.

 The pear tree.

The apple tree.

The cherry tree.

Recycle, reuse!

After three years, compost at the bottom of the bin is now ready to use.

 The compost goes around the planting - a chilli plant and a green pepper plant.

Spring flowers are in bloom

Meanwhile across on the other side of the garden, tulips are in full bloom!

Orange tulips and white gladioli!

 Violet and yellow tulips!

 White tulips!

Planting

We planted the saplings from Co-op. Luckily we had some rain after we planted. Hope it beds in the plants.

We also got a bird-feeder and filled it up with bird seed. Hope to see some birds soon!

A new start in 2015

We were back to the Coop in Villeneuve to get some saplings to get going again.

So what did we get? Tomato, Pepper, Aubergines, Courgette, Broccoli, Lettuce, Basil, Beetroot and Chilli! How much did it cost us? CHF 61.03.