hippie gardening

hey!I mostly try to cook things with my syrup. I like to put it in cakes and icings or mousses, or mix it with wine or vodka to create cool drinks.

Hey! I guess that your little sunflower plant has a bad sunburn. The sunlight is stronger in the mountains and especially delicate young plants can get sunburnt quite easily. But dont worry - it's usually not that bad - in a few weeks your sunflower will have developed a bunch of new leafs that are used to the strong sunlight!Good luck with it!Peace & LoveNina

salad can be so much more than green lettuce drenched in oil - this colourful bowl of goodness contains four different kinds of red and green lettuce, red spinach and beetroot leaves, rainbow radishes, spring onions, arugula and baby carrots. I like to eat my salads with a garlicky french dressing and a chunk of freshly baked bread - that's what summer tastes like!

freshly picked lemon balm and lilac for this years syrup - i think im gonna try to make lavender, elder flower and mint syrup as well

hey! so in general you should respect what the seed packaging tells you, but what i always do is plant things that grow quickly in between the stuff that takes a long time to grow, for example radishes, spinach or rapunzel lettuce between tomatoes or bell peppers - so the space isnt wasted when these plants are still smallpeace&lovenina

some of our raised beds, the ones on the right side are different kinds of cabbages and onions & carrots, the left ones are lima beans and lettuce, peas and rhubarb and the barrel in the middle will be filled with wizard beans by summer, but its still too cold for them to grow at the moment

hey!well, when you start gardening you shouldnt have unrealistic expectations. start small, start with easy to grow vegetables like lettuce or snap peas to avoid disappointments and then eventually your little garden will grow bigger.peace & love nina

it's rhubarb season! I already made rhubarb lemonade, muffins, popsicles and pudding - it's always the first thing to eat in spring and I absolutely love it

How to make artisan cider & perry Part 3: Taste testing That's definitely the best part about this whole process - tasting the finished product. Just as our apple trees are about to bloom again, their fruit's cider is finally ready. It's been slowly fermenting all winter long and the only thing left to do now is filling it into custom bottles.

These succulents are growing under our apricot tree

some tiny cupcakes and "guglhupf" for my sisters birthday

Hey! Plants that grow under almost all circumstances are strawberries and tomatoes, you could even grow your tomatoes upside down to save space.Potatoes usually do really well in pots too - and there is nothing that compares to the taste of a homegrown potato! If there's enough sun on your balcony you can basically grow anything in pots, so just get creative!Peace & LoveNina

Its almost march - that means putting the first carrot and sugar pea seeds into the ground and growing peppers and tomatoes on the windowsill

I know im a bit late to try this trend, but it turned out great! I used my favourite recipe for swedish cinnamon buns for this

I made some roses out of differently coloured fondant - I like the yellow ones best

I havent been posting a lot lately, but there are not a lot of things going on at the moment. Everything is burried under the snow or stuck in the frozen ground. The only things to harvest right now are beets, leeks and - of course - brussel sprouts.

Brussel sprout season has begun! I like to prepare mine with french dressing and crispy bacon