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.

Fresh Start...2014

2013 was a washout! A fresh start this year. The plot is ready - the strawberries are flowering, and the vines are sprouting shoots.

We went to the Lavaux Garden Center in La Croix and got some courgettes, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, chilly, salad, spring onions, broccoli, basil and coriander. Here's looking forward to a great season! Oh yes, we need to plant the okra seeds.

Looking forward to next year

We had a good season this year. We had a lot of fun and we learnt a lot of new things! We ate from our garden plot right through the summer. Yum!

We grew a lot of herbs, vegetables and fruit: grapes, courgette, strawberries, beans, aubergines, cucumber, spring onion, beetroot, cauliflower, broccoli, tomato, lettuce, spinach, chilli, radish, carrot, mint, coriander, and basil.

...but what about okra? Although we grew a few plants, we were not as successful with the cropping this year as we would have liked. We started too late, and the white flies spoiled our crop. So, we need to try harder next year!

We have a lot of our seeds from the Victoriana nursery ready for next year:  Aubergine Seed 'Black Beauty';       Bean Seed - Climbing French Bean 'Blue Lake';  Beetroot Seed 'Boltardy';  Broccoli Seed - Calabrese Long Season Cropping Blend; Carrot Seed 'Resistafly'; Cauliflower Seed 'Snowball'; Chilli Pepper Seed 'Bhut Jolokia' (CPI); Chilli Pepper Seed 'Joe's Long Cayenne'; Courgette Seed 'Zucchini'; Cucumber Seed 'La Diva';  Lettuce Seed 'Hendersons Black Seeded Simpson; Okra Seed 'Mammoth'; Onion Seed - Salad Onion 'White Lisbon' (Spring Onion); Radish Seed Spring, Summer & Autumn Blend; Spinach Seed - Little Grandad's Original;  Tomato Seed 'Abraham Lincoln';  Tomato Seed 'Matt's Wild Cherry'.

We have quite a challenge raising these from seed! We'll have to plan carefully and work hard.

Autumn and the Leaves Turn Colour

Autumn is here and we have already have our first snowfall! The leaves have turned colour - brown, yellow, golden.

It's time for our garden plot to rest. We've taken out the standing plants to get ready for next year!