you know what! sometimes i do not understand what is going on. i made videos in the summertime to show you in winter, when there is almost nothing to do in the garden i made videos about different kinds of vegetable and than this spare them for the wintertime. december, january, february to make you the waiting time more comfortable where there is realy nothing to do in the garden and what happens? i recieve comments with the question, when i will show new vieos think about that. december, january and february are not the most busy months in the gardening year other people ask me to make a documentary about what to do at what time in the garden
ok, i will try that. i hope, i keep doing this the whole year long so i have made videos about the work in the garden the last weeks we are drawing closer to the gardening season and i have to get uesed to gardening again, after wintertime i rather like to sit beside the heating by the way, the first day of sunshine for countless weeks you remember, the yellow star up there for the first time since weeks my video will start right here in the greenhouse. obviously cleaned up a bit i will show you which works had to be done in here
then we move on to the live stock where the every day work has to be done and then we move on into the garden what kind of tree and shrub cutting i had to do i do not like this work because i have no idea of that fruit trees, elderly tree and many others but do not blame me for beeing bored. you asked for recent videos. have fun as nice such a big green house is, it has to be watered all year through may be 600 liters per year
may be more a lot of water, am i right? lamb's lettuce did not grow very well, as every year and why the dirt is covered with moss, i do not know that takes an hour, or even two and all the wast which has to be removed the stones which kept the ground cover down all the planting rods and then weeding. on most of the beds i have sowed spinach, three rows each
and they have to be thinned out very soothing work, just right to start the gardening season it looks like tat when done. 4 to 5 centimeters apart looks good? spinach has germinated quite good, but lamb's lettuce not at all the first jobs this year, cleaning up every where in the garden i hope my vole trap will show up and by the way, harvesting my lunch
that are beet sowed very late last year, but they have done well and they are tasty, unlike other varieties they are called bicolour, at least in german language do not tell me to eat the leaves. may be possible, but not this ones after wintertime so, let us move on to the live stock i hate wintertime i have neglected work here, a lot of chicken shit by the way, i can explain what we feed our chickens
bought chicken feed wheat bought at a local farm and a special feed for better production of eggs i know, that is not bio. there is no bio feed for reasonable price and some crunched conches and of course everything from the kitchen which is good for chickens i know, i have neglected work here sometimes i find feathers, sometimes blood this tool, actually made for scraping ice is pretty good for this work
once or twice a year everything is cleaned up with the steam cleaner in winter, this work is ok, but in summertime, it stinks incredible you see someone who puts chicken shit into a box. what there is to see on youtube... :) would you like to smell? no worry, the edges of the perching are rounded so you chickens, breakfast time let us collect the eggs. fried eggs and the beet shortly after moult we had 10 to 12 eggs per day, now we are down to 3 or 4 we need a lot of chicken feed per year
that is from a local store yes, it contains gmo soja. but there is no gmo free feed affordable one third of the feed is wheat and get rid of the manure a lot of manure as well. chickens, rabbits and all of that i have to move for better composting the rabbits that are the every day jobs i have to do every morning and every evening.
three rabbits are left. two female and one male mud everywhere, i hate the winter the ducks pond cleaned up almost every day fresh water i can hardly await the summer so that i do not have mud on my boots almost all the time you made it until here? there will be more by the way, i have spent hours searching the internet for interesting seeds the first have arrived
i will show you what is planned this year roter meier, a seed which can not be translated. some sort of spinach guter heinrich, can not be translated too. some sort of spinach as well four different varieties of millet is planned kolbenhirse, mohrenhirse, kolbenhirse herbstfeuer and rispenhirse. it will be interesting this year. but i am not through with buying seeds and one more thing. how to built a wheel hoe will be coming later because i am fed up with traditional weeding i have bought two of this hoes and will build my own wheel hoe
and now we will move on to the trees i tell you, it is very cold. the wind is blowing out there but work does not wait pruning is not my favourite work. currents are easy. just cut away the old branches and leave 5 to 7 new ones even i can do that lonicera caerulea ssp. kamtschatica is much more difficult i do not know how to prune all this branches like a maze i have harvested not even one hand full yet
cut here, cut there, but not realy knowing what is right someone told me, to remove all the dried out fruits from the trees because there it is where all the pathogen survive the winter and it should be better to remove them if it helps it has been not a good year for the fruit trees. many wasps, bees and other diseases jostaberries are not that easy to prune but they grow fast, so i cut away what i do not like gojiberries, have a look at that
even worse than lonicera caerulea ssp. kamtschatica but i had a hand full of berries last year all the branches have to be cut into peaces i have a big heap of that as retreat area for useful insects herbs and many others i cut off i keep working asparagus i hope to have the first harvest this year the dead leaves have to be removed and destroyed because of pests
i have fed it to the chickens gardening season is not far away a quick help for aronia berries which had so many fruits last year so that they bend down to the ground remove the fence of the goose enclosure this kind of fence is not the best. the geese did not bother and the fence is not easy to st up, in this angular garden let us have a look into the nesting boxes no nest here but i guess, the last one was in reach of cats
here something interesting in here a wasp nest back to the chickens break the ice on the duck pond but here, a nest. good for the environment everywhere here eldery trees which had to be protected from the chickens by a fence now they are tall enough prune them
and now the fruit trees i am such an expert in pruning fruit trees, i even need a book like i need a computer in the kitchen while cooking i must admit, i do not think any of the apple trees has survived the winter i am sure, the voles have eaten all the roots one cut here, one cut there in the end, i cut away all the branches growing into the center of the tree and some outer branches. but as i said, i do not think they have survived all the poles have rotten away. i wonder, how the experts do that sometimes i needed a saw
always have a look from a distance the pear tree there is a video on my channel how to produce your own pear juice and have a close look, there is the sun again i think, i need help from my family to secure the ladder so, that have been the first things to be done in the garden it will not be boring you are still here did you realy watch all this 20 minutes of me working around here? your fault
i will try to keep up with videos just showing what to do at what time of the year but our region may not be as others, so you can not compare i hope you had some fun with me the sun is still there, hard to believe. at least 20 minutes already that is a good sign. gardening season starts soon. i am waiting for, i hope you too. see you