As promised Diana, I'm posting some pics of our garden. You remember? One of the reasons why I've been busy ocasuanaly.
These pics were all taken about a week ago. Almost everything seems so dead. Some leaves can already be seen.
The contrast between sommer and winter is a lot bigger than in SA. So spring is a very rewarding time after a cold and gray winter.
Here we go.
1. Btommbeer. A fruit simular to Mallberrys (this ground we are renting)
2. Apple plum cherry. (this ground we are renting)
3. Wild japenies cherries along the road.
4. "Buchenhecke" What's that in English? (border of our own ground)
1. One of our own cherry trees. Very big and juicy kind.
2. Plum, prune, apple, pear
3. This is where my wife has her veg and salad in summer. Looks more like a desert now... hihi
4. Veg garden, green house, "log cabin. That's our garden.
1, We like sitting here in summer... Wine, braai... That's our kitchen windows und our bedroom on top.
2. That dry bush is "Flieder". Wish you could smell it when the blossoms open.
3. Our garden taken from the terrase
4. The rented garden in the backround seen from our terrase
Kids are the same allover the world.
Lucie (5) practicing for school next year in summer
The next round will be the real spring pics with more green.
Please enjoy and feel free to comment.
Quite the farmer you are .. I noticed in my travels in Germany that some city families have plots on the outskirts where they have gardens , spending weekends there tending their gardens , I have forgotten what they were called .. help //
Nice Boy Georg,no wander you've been busy will be nice to see the changes in the next photo's. Yes Sandy my dads family had those funny gardens you'd go to over the weekend,with gardening shed and all.
IN the UK they are called allotments, they are what fed the country during the war and law states that everyone has a right to one.
Keeping the developers off is a growing problem, now a days though, it seems the councils are often swayed by the price paid.
Thanks guys.
The gardens Sandy means are called "Schrebergarten" spocken shrebergarten. My parents in law have one and are very proud of it. It's not my kind of thing. They're all in a "collony" with strict rules. What you may plant, how much of your garden should be used for veg... ect. "Typical" German... :buffo1: laughpoint
Our garden is neat in a way. I'm not the farmer type. It's my wife who enjoys the veg ect. I take care of the lawn and hedges. That's enough for me. A garden has to be a wee bit wild.
Best of all... :buffo9: A lot of our fruit is made into Schnaps with 45% alcehol. quickdop
A wee bit wild .. you been drinking Whiskey and getting some scots influence ?/
"Buchenhecke" is called hedge in English. Nice pixs, see on Deukom (German Satellite) that you guys are freezing.......
Thanks Susan for helping. "Hecke" means hedge. I don't know what "Buche" is in English. It's actualy a tree which is used in hedges. I know they're used in British parks too. As far as I know, gardners would bend them to make sure they can put the top of the tree in the ground. That way the tree grows roots and stays in this position forming something like an n. at the highest point they would chop a slit into, but I don't know the purpose.
Mayxbe this'll help you to know what "Buche" is. I have a dictionary at home. If I remember....
Buche : = Beech, beechnut
Buch Hecke grove
Find no direct translation for Buchhecke
Thanks oldman.
These pics were taken on the 31.12.2001. Just as a comparison...
That's Ute shivering, but enjoying the white stuff.
I want to visit you and play in all that lovely thick snow. winter
Sorry Diana, but it only realy snowed once this winter. The snow melted within hours. I think this was in November.
As soon as we have snow I'll tell ya...
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I'll have a ticket booked on standby. I've always wanted to visit Germany wonder if I ever will.
Sigh! These dreams... Sounds familiar...
Okay Diana and anybody else interested. Next round...
1. Along our road.
2. Our burch hedge.
3. Our dogs bathtub.
4. Our cherry tree. If we're lucky the bees will fly today...
1. Plum, prune, apple, pear...
2. The log cabin
3. Wait till my flowers open...
4. The garden seen from the terasse
Aw, I miss spring time so much ... here it's just hot, hotter and then back to hot ... notfair
Yes Patricia.
Just wanted to show the rewarding after a cold wet winter.
Very nice everything looks so green I like the "country look"
I like your Holtzhuette. Did you buy it ready made, or DIY? I'm thinking of building one soon, but that's still distant dreams...
Since the iron-curtain has fallen, the market in Europe has changed. Many componies in the east arwe trying hard to get their products on our market.
Our Holzhuette was design bei a compony in Lettland or Estland. they send you a plan and the prepared wood in a bundle. You do the rest.
Foundation, putting together, srews, nails, paint ect.
It's fantastic when we have guests in sommer having a braai outside. Even smokers feel at home... bling1
IJust wanted to keep you updated. I tok these pics a couple of weeks ago. Almost all the leaves are gone now and everything has turned grey.
1. Taken from our bedrom window.
2. This is where Lucie did her drawings.
3. The leftovers of Utes herbes. ( http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=1887.0 )
4. Some of our fruit trees.
1. THe chery trees and Lucies "playground"..
2. This used to be Utes veg garden.
3. Nobody wants to sit here now.
4. ASide the log-cabin.
Im Herbst da fallen die Blätter
Donnerwetter LOL
:emot19_2: I think Daddy George is using the same type of language here about the falling leaves in autum that I used in the Snooker and Darts pup about the tackles.... hmmmmm.....
He he he
@ Dalene, no thats all above board Up-out
Donnerwetter LOL ??? Thunder !!! :emot19_2: Bad weather - autum leaves falling !
You know, that word does say quite a lot of things in one......
ha ha
Mein gűte nogmal! lol Thats another lekker German saying! ha ha (Excuse the lousy spelling)
Quote from: DUNJA WRBKA on November 20, 2008, 05:06:19 AM
Mein gűte nogmal! lol Thats another lekker German saying! ha ha (Excuse the lousy spelling)
And what exactly does this have to do with jnr's garden? yellocard
I think your sis likes the romatic scenery Carl...
Dunja... giverose
Either that, or she's after your herbs... weed Be afraid, be very afraid... 202
Actually, you guys are lucky to have all your romantic scenery so close by. Here in SA we have to travel for hours to get to our romantic scenery.
My father in law's niece and her husband came to visit us for three weeks, and I took them to the Lowveld last weekend. We did the whole Panorama route, Hazeyview, Graskop, Sabie, Pilgrims Rest, Gods Window, Bourkes Luck, and a part of the Kruger park and Blyde River Canyon. Absolutely stunning scenery! The rains had been plentifull, and all the waterfalls were flowing strongly and vegetation was lush and green. I'll post some pics soon.
ha ha Was going to come back with a cheaky answer Carl but once I saw the rose from Jnr I was lost for words...
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Great looking at your Pics.
Seeing that you have a Plumb tree, you no doubt make plumb wine ( We had a plumb tree in oranjemund and I made copious amounts of wine from that tree)
My grand father, in the UK, used to have an allotment on which he grew lots of veggies and had a shed where he and my uncle used to make dandilion and sloe wine amongst others.
@dunja. ha ha
@Carl Posting them as "Carls Garden"?
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Clive, give us the recipe please pls Never done that in my life (have stoked a little witbliz), but always a first time for everything.
Johan Kemp and Theo Weyers took five litres of Orange wine I made and turned that to pure fire water.
It burnt clear clear, and kicked like hell ( I had to tone mine down coke, five litres yielded 500ml.
I still have the books somewhere for making all the different wines.
Takes patience and time. ( often at the first taste, I was inclned to throw the stuff away. But sense prevaled and a year or three later some of the wine was great)
ha ha
You not wrong when you say one needs patience when one has to wait a year or three for the stuff to start tasting like something .,.... 202 swink
Ah, look who's awake at the crack of fart. bighug
Oh bite me! image19
Come come you two.... play nice in Georg's garden! goodmorning
Morning Dunja,
There are always the quick versions: (Daleen this is also for you)
Blackberry wine
Tin Blackberries ( use 2 off 450 gram tins for a sweeter & more colourful wine)
one Kilo sugar ( up to 1.5 Kg if you want a sweeter wine)
Quarter teespoon tannin
One Nutrient Tablet ( if you cannot get these tablets, use one (1) LEVEL teespoon of ammonium phosphate per 4.5 litres of water get the ammonium phosphate from your chemist)
A Bordeaux yeast
4.5 Litres of water
I used to add one 500mg Vitamine C tablet
Pulp the berries & pour over the syrup made by disolving the sugar in half the water required
Allow to cool & pour into a clean (I mean clean) fermenting vessel ( I used to use the old 4.5 litre glass jugs that Liberstein & Virgina wines used to come in- fyf man kan)
if its not clean you will end up with vineger.
Then add the syrup from the tin or tins, the nutrient ( crushed if in tablet form) the citric acid( Vit C tablet, also crushed) the tannin and the yeast ( liquid must not be too hot otherwise you will kill the yeast)
Add the remaining water, make sure there is approx 30 to 50mm air space to allow the wine to ferment ( you may need to slightly reduce your liquid to ensure space)
Fit an air lock device to make sure the wine can release the pressures built up by fermentation, but do not allow any air back into the fermenting vessel.
Ferment for 10 to 12 days depending on temperature, shake the jar each day, then you can strain off the liquid from the pulp, topping up with a light syrup made from sugar & water, the vessel can be almost full at this stage , fit the airlock and allow the wine to ferment out, allow all sediment to collect at the bottom of the jar / jug / vessel.
This can take 2 months or so, make sure to maintain the water in the airlock, each bubble comming out is the formation of alchohol in the wine.
To rack out the wine you will need clean wine bottles corks etc, siphon off the clear wine & bottle.
To preserve the colour store away from sunlight.
You can start tasting after a month ( if you have not already tasted while racking ( bottling)
Enjoy & let me know if you try.
Have you tried his with a port yeast Clive. Good effec... hick!
Sounds like you have.
Naw I have not had time to practise my black arts for a while, still have loads more I would like to try.
My wife make dessert wine out fresh fruit. For eg. prunes. Using port yeast gives it som god spinning. lol
Does the prunes not make your stomach run?
The wine takes about 1 1/2 years till it's ready to drink. There's nothing in it anymore by that time, that'll make you "run".
Maybe Bertie could give us a hand there...
23_11_61 Ignorance is bliss!! swink
Just know that prune juice soon sorts out a hardened stomach and I guess gathered that the wine would do the same. Well happy to know that I can drink litres without it effecting my stomach. My liver perhaps but stomach will remain intact! woo_hoo
lol.
Don't think you'll drink litres. The stuff is very POTENT! image281
Good on you Georg, though the prune juice will keep you regular. No problems & helps for piles ( hemeroids)
secret(1) Thanks for sharing that with us Clive. bighug
Id rather eat right than have the operation.