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This year, the young fruit trees start offering decent harvest :love The very first pear and almond tart with homegrown pears I...

We finished a lunch with the Snap Peas. The seed for them was sown at the end of July. Often, they won't have time for development of...

Basil and thyme went into some dipping oil tonight. A friend works with wood as a hobby and gave me a "pizza cutter" but its basically a...

The temperature drops quickly and early this year, and it also rains a lot. I will have three days off from tomorrow, and time to...

Frost - on cars Frost - on roofs Frost - on lawns I waited until 6 to turn on sprinklers since our coldest temperatures have been about...

the past few days we've not even hit the dewpoint overnight. that is very very unusual here. this current forecast has us down for...

I love some that are usually treated as annuals but later on, some survive and adapt to the weather, such as snapdragons. I did try to...

I really like perennials bc they are NO CARE, like iris, tulips, daffodills, day lillies and roses. The other ones I have become...

looks good to me in either form. :)

Joy is having gathered so many garden supplies for MY needs that my Fall gardening job is to organize them and store them for the 2026...

Joy is having a NEW washer with a huge tub--bigger than the one that never worked right--that let's me wash in HOT water...

It's a simple vanilla sponge cake, I cut it into 3 layers and added creme chantilly and figs as filling. :D

Pan-fried homemade bread with (homegrown) peach jam :love

As tomorrow is the German Unity Day, i made something special. The final version is lovely, but... (Bottom: Carrot juice + a bit Tumeric...