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Warm welcome!

Hello from q lovely little town in Schleiden, Germany. 🥳

I love to make such comparisons - then I realized how much effort I have done in this garden. Well, the same location looks much better this year. I cleaned up the edges, removed some weeds, and added some chicken manure before heavy rain arrived. The spring preparation for this small bed was...

#24002 Large Cupped Daffodil 'Snowtips' - heavily frilled lemon-yellow cups dotted with flakes of pure white, sweet fragrance

I finished another window of the grey house, still one to go. I used such greenhouse panel on the door and two windows facing south. Same spot, but totally different settings Large Cupped Daffodil 'Snowtips' - heavily frilled lemon-yellow cups dotted with flakes of pure white, sweet...

Finished the four cakes a customer ordered last weekend! They look great in the boxes. Ready for the customer to pick up tomorrow morning ~ I used the rest ingredients to make a small cake for ourselves. Let me share some thoughts with you tomorrow, I am a bit exhausted and need to jump on...

Fulfilling an Easter order for four cakes - using seedless grapes to make easter eggs is a lovely creation.

Enjoy your new journey!

Worked on my garden journal and enjoyed time with our family members.

Next to the grey house is a shady area. In winter, there is no directly sunlight the entire day. After spring equinox, there will be gradually some sunlight after 1pm. While working on the grey house, I am also considering how to turn this small area into a shady garden. Yesterday, I dug out...

My last batch also didn't make it, but if you have roses in the garden and didn't have spring pruning, it might be another better chance to try again! I just pruned the roses I propagated in the past two years, and in fact, I already have a lot of them. :D

Last two weeks, I repaired, repainted, and reloaded one of the bird feeders with food, chicken feather and dog fur. We saw gardening birds using them, and this morning, while I was potting some volunteer plants, I saw this and felt so so so happy.

Today's music for gardening, I just kept playing the same song and transplanted all young plants sowed in Jan/Feb.

Perennials can tolerate frost when they are established, however, young plants can still be killed by severe frost, even trees. I will also suggest using pots first as a transitional option before planting them to their permanent location, anyway a safer environment.

Rainy day, baking day After acquiring some fresh, wonderful grapes, and having previously made some honey whisky-processed raisins, I combined the two to create a sponge cake with maple syrup icing. Fresh grapes -- look like sort of jewelry A naked cake with bare sides - but the fluffy...

Apple and pear trees are sending new leaves and flower buds! The weather today was extremely unstable, sunny, rainy, sunny, stormy, sunny, rainy... So, I spent some time in the greenhouse and completed another batch seed sowing and seedling pricking. Peas and beetroots - two per cell The...

Basal shoots from the overwintered stevia plants - I changed the soil and added some feed for them.