Category: Season 05: Preparing for winter

  • 140A Fluffy harvesting and planting

    140A Fluffy harvesting and planting

    If you need a break from politics, here’s a fluffy video where I plant garlic, harvest carrots, the sun shines, and a dog gets a treat. I struggled a lot to make this video, so there is a non-fluffy version in addition with some real-talk about the current situation. This is not it. This one…

  • 139 Bad-weather garden tour

    139 Bad-weather garden tour

    A garden tour in bad weather with everything you missed because I lost three weeks worth of footage. I’ll show you the new beds I made, how I’ve turned everything over for winter, and give you an update on what’s still growing in November in North-East Germany. A garden tour doesn’t lend itself well to…

  • 137 Preserving the harvest

    137 Preserving the harvest

    Fall is harvest season. I busily preserved the harvest from my and other gardens. Despite issues with blight, our tomatoes had produced enough for some canning. The neighbor’s apple trees had left me with goo harvests. In the garden, I harvested the rest of the sunflowers. Despite issues with blight earlier in the season, our…

  • 136 Catching up indoors

    136 Catching up indoors

    The outside world was darkening. Growing food was moving mostly indoors, the focus otherwise shifted to preservation.I switched to indoor tasks–and I had put off enough of them to fill a book. With too few harvests from the garden to keep us fed, I had signed up for the local produce box again. During the…

  • 133 Preparing next year’s garden

    133 Preparing next year’s garden

    Work in the summer garden was slowing; the winter greens were in. Soon, I’d need room to grow onions and garlic. I was running out of bed space. I needed to fill the gaps. Work in the summer garden was slowing; the winter greens were in. Soon, I’d need room to grow onions and garlic.…