Preparations on My Vegetable Garden 2025 🌱

in HiveGarden8 days ago

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Hello everyone :)!

After moving to my new place and thanks to the newly gained space it came with, I finally had the opportunity to set up at least a halfway decent garden this year. :)

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Hallo allerseits :)!

Durch den neu gewonnenen Platz nach meinem Umzug hatte ich dieses Jahr endlich wieder die Möglichkeit, einen zumindest halbwegs ordentlichen Garten anzulegen. :)


During the last years I had all my plants in big plastic containers on the terrace, finally having proper soil available again without having to worry whether the volume of the container meets the needs of the plants is a true blessing. The soil of the garden area was not optimal this year and still needs some improvement, but for this year I was okay with it due to time constraints.

Die Jahre zuvor hatte ich meine Pflanzen alle in Kübeln auf der Terrasse stehen, endlich wieder vernünftiges Erdreich zur Verfügung zu haben, ohne sich Gedanken machen zu müssen, ob das Volumen des Kübels den Ansprüchen der Pflanzen gerecht wird, ist ein wahrer Segen. Der Boden der Gartenfläche war dieses Jahr nicht optimal und bedarf nach wie vor etwas an Aufarbeitung, aber für dieses Jahr hab ich mich aus zeitlichen Gründen damit zufrieden gegeben.


A large flower meadow is also planned for the coming year - I already have collected the seeds for this plan during this year. Depending on how spring turns out, it will begin to bloom massively in many places here during next year. :)

Auch eine große Blumenwiese ist für das kommende Jahr in Planung - das Saatgut hierfür habe ich mir bereits dieses Jahr über zusammengesammelt. Je nachdem wie sich der Frühling gibt, wird es im nächsten Jahr an etlichen Stellen massiv zu blühen beginnen. :)


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But back to the vegetable garden. The original condition of the intended area was not particularly usable and took me many hours of work to be ready for the actual task - the planting. In particular, the many wild blackberries that had spread across the entire area were an absolute horror... up to that point I had also never removed blackberry roots from the ground that were meters long and as thick as an arm, and I am not overdoing it about this point, that was absolutely insane...

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Aber zurück in den Gemüsegarten. Der Ursprüngliche Zustand der angedachten Gesamtfläche war nicht sonderlich brauchbar und hat etliche Stunden Arbeit in Anspruch genommen, um bereit für die eigentliche Arbeit zu sein - der Bepflanzung. Insbesondere die vielen wild gewachsenen Brombeeren, welche sich über die gesamte Fläche ausgebreitet hatten, waren ein absoluter Graus... bis dato hatte ich anbei auch noch keine Meterlangen wie Unterarm dicken Brombeerwurzeln aus dem Boden entfernt, wobei ich hier nicht übertreibe, das war echt irre...


Luckily for me, a friend had the appropriate machines at hand, because after working on the ground with pickaxe and spade, most of it was already done with the tillers he got, then it was time to set up the beds. I have to admit, that i did not have the time to pre-grow plants this year, however I received a wonderful address where many true-to-seed plants can be obtained. Nearly 100 tomato plants were purchased, a few zucchinis - yellow as well as green ones, a few eggplants - white as well as black ones, various cucumbers, pumpkin plants and whatever else was on offer and got into my curious eyes. The trunk was definitely quite full and well, we are not talking about a small car. :D

Zu meinem Glück hatte ein Freund die entsprechenden Maschinen parat, denn nach dem Vorarbeiten mit der Spitzhacke wie dem Spaten war mit den Fräsen schon das Meiste erledigt, dann ging es ans anlegen der Bete.
Wobei ich direkt sagen muss, dass ich dieses Jahr keine Zeit zum vorziehen von Pflanzen hatte, allerdings eine wunderbare Adresse erhalten habe, an der sich viele Saatechte Pflanzen beziehen lassen. Dort wurden dann allein an die 100 Tomatenpflanzen eingekauft, ein paar Zucchini - gelb wie grün, ein paar Auberginen - weiße wie schwarze, diverse Gurken, Kürbispflanzen und was sich sonst noch so angeboten hat. Der Kofferraum war jedenfalls ziemlich voll und naja, wir sprechen nicht von nem Kleinwagen. :D

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The picture shows about 70% of the plants I purchased. Back home the fun part started - it was time to finally plant and well, just with the sheer amount of tomatoes it took quite some time to get done. At first, everything was also diligently watered, but rather concentrated, thus indirectly more targeted downwards than sideways, so that the roots of the plants would also develop more likely into this direction. This was achieved with the help of the muddy clay soil (after the addition of sufficient water), which was built up into small walls around the plants (see second to last picture).

Das Bild zeigt knapp 70% der Pflanzen, die ich erworben habe.
Daheim ging es dann ans einpflanzen und naja, allein bei der Masse Tomaten, hat das einiges an Zeit in Anspruch genommen. Anfänglich wurde auch noch alles fleißig gegossen, allerdings eher konzentriert, somit indirekt eher gezielt nach unten als in die Breite, damit sich die Wurzeln der Pflanzen auch eher in diese Richtung entwickeln. Erreicht wurde das mithilfe das matschigen lehmhaltigen Bodens (nach der Zugabe von ausreichend Wasser), welcher zu kleinen Mauern um die Pflanzen herum aufgerichtet wurde (siehe vorletztes Bild).

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Since I already suspected that I would have problems with snails or other hungry guests, I got myself a bunch of cheap seedlings at the supermarket to set up a "eat this and leave my good stuff alone - barrier". Which actually worked really well, because everything that came from the little forest on the right first got stuck in all that overbred cheap stuff that I didn’t want to eat anyway. :D

Da ich mir bereits dachte, dass ich Probleme mit Schnecken oder anderen Naschkatzen bekommen werde, hab ich mir im Supermarkt einiges an Billig-Setzlingen geholt um eine "friss das und lass mir meine Guten Sachen in Ruhe - Barriere" zu errichten. Was auch echt gut geklappt hat, denn alles was von rechts gesehen durch das Wäldchen kam, blieb erst mal an dem ganzen verzüchteten Billigkrams hängen, den ich eh nicht essen wollte. :D

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For a short time, a foil tunnel that I had lying around was also set up at the said area, but that was more likely to satisfy my curiosity and after barely a week it was declared unfunctional and fed to the trash can.

Kurzzeitig wurde auch ein Folientunnel, den ich rumliegen hatte über besagtem Bereich angebracht, aber das galt lediglich dem befriedigen meiner Neugierde und wurde nach knapp einer Woche als untauglich befunden und dem Mülleimer gefüttert.

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In general, a lot of time had to be spent on the rough preparation of the soil. It’s not bad at the moment, but with the addition of horse manure and good compost soil, quite a bit can still be done in terms of improving the quality, but those are tasks for the coming winter or rather a bit ahead of spring next year. :D

Allgemein musste viel Zeit in die grobe Aufbereitung des Bodens gesteckt werden. Er ist nicht schlecht, aber da geht mit Zugabe von Pferdemist und guter Komposterde noch so einiges im Bezug auf eine Verbesserung der Qualität, aber das sind Arbeiten für den Winter oder eher ein wenig für vor dem Frühling. :D

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After many hours of work, version 1.0 of the vegetable garden was finally completed and only needed to be supplied with water.

Updates regarding the development as well as already harvested crops will follow in further posts. The effort was definitely worth it, especially with the tomatoes I can hardly keep up, and since I have made it my goal to produce as many products as reasonably possible myself, that’s what i will do nearly every evening. :D

Nach etlichen Stunden Arbeit war der Garten Version 1.0 dann auch fertiggestellt und musste lediglich mit Wasser versorgt werden.

Updates bezüglich der Entwicklung wie bereits eingebrachter Ernten folgen in weiteren Beiträgen. Der Aufwand hat sich jedenfalls gelohnt, insbesondere bei den Tomaten komme ich kaum hinterher und da ich mir vorgenommen habe, so viele Produkte wie nur halbwegs möglich selbst herzustellen sind, auch herzustellen, ist das jetzt eben nahezu jeden Abend so. :D

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Thanks for your interest!

Have a great time! :)

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Great all the work done for the creation of your 1.0 garden friend @schlees although it is just the beginning of it, surely you will have an excellent harvest, also very varied with a good amount of vegetables. I am also fighting to get a place where I can plant a good amount of plants such as chilies, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, pumpkins, zucchini and perhaps some corn as well as potatoes and onions, in short, also use them in the kitchen to reduce costs.

As written above - not planning in buying anything related to what i am capable of growing myself and if using some cheap machine that can shred, stir and heat the same time, you safe countles hours putting all those tomatos into glasses for example. Also for marmalade! Absolute recommendetaion to get any cheap machine like this!^^

As said a few seconds ago - search for a "wild area" somewhere close to you, talk to the owner and offer him 20% to 30% of what you will harvest. If the land is unused and nobody has plans for it, you will most likely be lucky. Write a contract!^^

Great job. I'm now excited on how it will turn out when you harvest them. Snails are the greatest enemy of gardens, as well as caterpillars. Everytime I'm home, I often visit the veggie garden every morning and afternoon just to check if they're infested.

Thanks a lot. Already harvesting - a lot. :D
If you got enough space, try this "crap vegetable barrier", works out pretty well for me since i dont wanna use any pesticides. In between to the "good stuff" some dry area = most likely done. In the end i should have extended my "barrier" further than i had planned in the beginning, but it's still fine in terms of hungry visitors. Some snails learn to fly as well if i realize them, but it's way more relaxed in terms of snails than i imagined, especially close to this "little forest area".
I also don't really care about this stuff a lot to be honest since if the surrounding nature is fine and there is someone trying to eat my plants, there is always another someone eating this someone, at least mostly.^^ But i seem to be pretty lucky at all in this concern. :)

But this also depends on the Seeds/Plants you are planting, mine are hardcore resistent, at least the ones i plantet most of (Name = "Rutje") and they don't really care about anything besides water.^^
Rutje combined with an old Kazakh breed same size, but yellow fruits (never have seen such a resistent tomato!^^) is my personal favorite, at least for my region. But more about this later on. :D

Are you using hybrid plants or "true-to-seed" ones?

Wow! What an amazing starting of garden. You've put so much hard work and it really shows. I like the variety of plants you chose. 🌿

Thanks! :) Yea, it rly was a lot of hard work until this piece of land was ready to use for gardening, but worth every second. :)

Plants don't thrive in pots. They need a larger, more airy space. It's best to plant them in soil, as you did. They'll receive better sunlight.

The tomatoes are looking good. You'll likely get the best results from them. They'll need staking support when they get a little bigger.

With the right soil you nearly can get everything growing, i also had a butternut pumpkin in a big pot, surrounded by lots of flowers and this one also gave me 3 perfectly grown butternut pumpkins, could have been more and more space is better for sure, no discussion about this - but in the end it works if done properly, at least with the big pots you can see on the following picture for example, 80l to 120l were used if i remember correctly atm.
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Mostly seen at construction sites.^^

They look even better right now, at least besides the fact i did not have time to take care properly, so they have grown a little wild, but no problem. :) As said, it's a lot each day. Yesterday it was about 30 big flesh tomatos besides at least 50 smaller ones of different types. :)

I like the plants you choose to plant. I hope no insects destroy your garden. Enjoy.

Thanks. The barrier i planted worked very well, but even if they get some, a few tomatos lost while i harvest this many daily atm do not matter in the end, i am just a little pissed off they also snacked my white eggplant recently (had plans^^) - but at least i could save some seeds to plant even more next year.^^

It must be very rewarding to eat a vegetable planted and harvested by your own hands. If I had a square meter of land, I'd do the same. Good luck with your harvest.

It for sure is, taking a piece of bread and cheese, going out there, combining with what ever i find at this moment is a great feeling. :)

Thanks a lot and i am sure there is an unused piece of land surrounding you. Talk to the owner - offer him 20 to 30% of your harvest and most will agree on this. Don't forget to make the owner sign this agreement. :D

Sure, thanks for your advice. I'll take it seriously.

Nice garden and a lot of work you have there. I dream to got one like this someday. I really glad people are re-integrating with nature. God luck there and have a very good harvest soon.
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Thanks and yea, indeed a lot of work was done here. Until you get your own - ask your neighbors, owners of empty and more wild than cultivated looking areas and share your harvest or even the whole thing with them (also nice in terms of watering stuff^^) - after you have written down a contract with the owner. :)

Most are caught in a daily loop they can't get out of, but also realizing people starting to get way more interested in topics like gardening and such.

Good luck finding a place - give it a try. :)

Thank you very much for your advice, sadly I currently live in a concrete jungle. It is one of the biggest urban areas in the world, wich means there is no neighbour with a patch of land to share or borrow. However I´m in the last part of my compromises here and hoping to move closer to countryside soon. That´s the dream at least, lest see how it develops. Good luck to you and your garden. I´ll keep an eye on your blog and sheer you up when ever I can.

Sounds horrible to me. -.-"^^
Can only recomend doing what you are already up to - good luck to you as well! :)

That is the actual plan! Thanks

You put a lot of effort, you did a really great job. Everything looks great congratulations @schlees

Indeed and thanks a lot! :)

Your welcome

Looks amazing - and I'm sure it'll be even better next year with some added compost and manure to enrich the soil!

Thanks a lot!
Will be working on it for sure to properly enrich it, especially to give it a little more fluffyness as well, since it is a little bit more clay inside the ground. :)

Ah I've been lucky , our clay is 12 feet down!

No exact idea how deep it goes here, was digging with an excavator for about 2.50 meters deep to place a small plastic pond i had laying around (for animals to drink, even we used it as a "small pool" for the first days when we had about 36° celsius in the shadow^^). Besides Clay i also found some nice, but mostly smaller Geodes in the ground - was quiet interesting to be honest and i am very curious to see what i will find in the ground when digging at the place i have on my mind for the big pond (also just to support wildlife further). :D

Looks great im jealous! I cant wait to start a farm when I am in my next house!
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Thanks! The stuff that has already been harvested is looking even better. Don't be jealous - go for it!^^

Good luck with your upcoming garden, tilling it all up was a good idea. Hope those tomatoes and lettuces do well.

Cleaning up this land was a huge job. The results will soon be visible. Congratulations.

Indeed, but worth every second and the results are already visable. :)

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