Growing

  • Apricots!

    Türkçe It’s apricot time in the garden! Our tree is full of fruits.With the heat wave that came through this week, they are ripening quickly and falling off. I collect them 3-4 times…

  • Food Forest in Late Spring

    TR It’s the last week of May here . Even though we’re having less and less rain each year in spring, the garden is full of life!  The advantage of having mostly perennial…

  • Time to Eat Shoots!

    As the weather is getting warmer, the growth rate of the plants accelerate immensely! Shrubs and trees grow new shoots, annuals want to flower and go to seed as soon as they can!…

  • Compost Bucket for Composting in Situ

    Türkçe A simple basket I made using prunnings of english ivy and virginia creeper Another basket type for composting.I just stuck some grapevine prunnings in the ground and wove around it I tried…

  • Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden

    I’m reading a great book : Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden. It’s a wonderful book about Native American Hidatsa tribe’s gardening practices.  There are detailed descriptions of how the tribe used to grow, harvest…

  • Wasp spider

    Argiope bruennichi – Wasp spider   This is one of the spiders I see a lot around this time.   It looks a little bit scary, but their focus is insects rather than…

  • Lemon Tree Guild

    June 2023. Curry plant(Helichrysum italicum) is in flower and all the other elements are growing happily! August 2023. All the herbs grew substantially. I expanded the guild by planting Autumn Olive (on the…

  • Garden in January

    English Türkçe This winter is going quite warm.We had just one night of frost so far. The frequent southwest winds, called Lodos in Turkish, are warming up the weather. On the other hand…