Natural Garden
A Bee Garden All Year: How to Close the Summer Forage Gap
With a continuous bloom calendar you fill the midsummer forage gap and keep nectar and pollen flowing from March to October.
Gartenkern Magazine
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What's new, what's growing, what we're learning. Updates, guides and stories for people who take their garden seriously.
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Sowing a Wildflower Meadow: Why Poor Soil Wins
An abundant wildflower meadow does not start with the seed. It starts with taking the richness out of the soil.
Natural Garden
Welcoming Bats to Your Garden: Roosts, Night Insects and Fragrant Evening Blooms
How to turn your garden into a hunting ground for bats: with night insects, fragrant evening blooms and a box hung the right way.
Garden Practice
Building a raised bed in layers
Four layers from coarse to fine, roughly 80 cm of fill height, and a plan for the yearly top-up: how to build a raised bed that keeps producing for years.
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Propagating figs from cuttings: true to type and easy
A hand-long twig turns into a fruiting fig tree. Here is how to propagate your fig true to type from hardwood cuttings in winter, green cuttings in summer, or layering.
#feige#vermehrung#stecklinge#obstbaeume#kuebelpflanzen
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Why won't my fruit tree bear?
Lots of blossom, hardly any fruit: we walk through the most common causes one by one, from a missing pollination partner to late frost, nitrogen and biennial bearing, so you can find the right one for your tree.
#obstbaeume#befruchter#alternanz#spaetfrost#ernte
Plum Moth: How to Keep Your Plums Worm-Free
Wormy plums are almost always the work of the plum moth. Once you understand its two generations and flight periods, you can cut the damage sharply with a pheromone trap, a trunk band and autumn hygiene, entirely without chemicals.
#pflaumenwickler#zwetschge#pflaume#pflanzenschutz#pheromonfalle
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Physalis and Cape Gooseberry: Growing and Overwintering
The golden cape gooseberry is a perennial that we usually grow as an annual. Here is how to sow it right, ripen the fruit, and overwinter the rootstock for an earlier harvest in the second year.
#andenbeere#physalis#vorziehen#ueberwintern#naschgarten
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Pecan and Heartnut: Exotic Nut Trees for the Climate-Change Garden
Two exotic nut trees, two very different stories: the pecan needs wine-country heat, the heartnut shrugs off brutal winters. An honest take on who should bother waiting.
#nussbaeume#pekannuss#herznuss#klimawandel#obstbaum-pflanzen