The rabbit and the vegetable garden.

During already 2 weekends we have enjoyed working in the garden.

Cleaning up winter was really needed. It’s spring you know. 

Some old dry brown sticks from last year told us about better times with lots of flowers and green. And now it is full of colours again, red, blue, yellow, ... in all shades. No need for old dead sticks any more. 
Some fighting against herbs such as nettles was also part of the cleaning upp. They would love to take over the garden. But there is already a big nice spot in the back of the garden where they can stay for nettles soup and even better : nettle bread. Carin just tried it and it turned out to be very tasteful. Sure she will do it again. 

And as a bonus some beautifull butterflies can lay their eggs on it.

Something even more fun is our vegetable garden. We started already a little piece somewhat earlier. Carrots, as Cecilia loves carrots. But now we expanded it with chard (mangold – snijbiet of warmoes), salad and beans. Especially these beans which grow high on sticks are my favourites. It’s kind of vertical gardening. And what was fun: the wind was blowing in the bamboo pipes and making funny whistling noises. 

Carin putting the beans in the ground.

And we had a good helper to turn around the ground. But she was not happy to see the hole filled up for planting our peas.

 

Guess what: after a few days the seeds are coming up already.

carrots

some kind of special Japanese salad

Bad luck we had with our first day of seeding and planting. We planted 2 zucchinis. One of them was a really nice and big plant. In the morning both of them where hanging on the ground: frozen. Now I planted a new one as it is much warmer with temperatures up to 25°C. 

In the back of the garden we have made our potato field. To make it fun and good looking we have bordered it with tagetes plants  at the southern side and we seeded sunflowers at the northern side. 

A peacock (påfågel – dagpauwoog) has already made this his territory.