Ik ben Geert
Ik ben een man en woon in Nederland () en mijn beroep is Bewakingsagent.
Ik ben geboren op 12/08/1983 en ben nu dus 41 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: sporten zoals snooker, fietsen,....
01-10-2013
Autumn.. It's that time of the year again!
Autumn. To me this is the time of the year where I try to get the
most out of the shorter growing days, and the gradually declining
temperatures. It's my time to do some 'autumn cleaning', as opposed
to spring cleaning. The plants in the yards go into their resting state,
it's time to give your car a washing up before the cold arrives.
One
thing I've bought this summer is a leaf blower. We have some trees
surrounding our garden en also some in it. All the leaves fall into our
garden. I'm particularly fond of this leaf blower though, because of
the fact that it cuts the leaves into very small parts, which I can in
turn use to make compost out of. This compost I will use next spring. A
true 'circle of life' so to speak. It's certainly a lot cheaper than
buying all kinds of chemical nutrients for the structure of the soil,
and probably a lot healthier as well.
Yesterday Katia & me prepared our first escargots of the year. Yes,
I'm breeding them myself. For now we only have about 100 adults and a
few hundred smaller ones, but I hope to increase that number
dramatically. Next year we should be able to have friends taste them as
well.They were delicious
Phew, another hour of work on the henhouse. A luxury, when you have two toddlers up and about. It's starting to take form. I've added some small windows on the sides to get to the eggs, I've placed a 'roof' on top of the house, and i've placed a gutter so the water can seep away. This will all be finished with usage of plastic materials etc, and then it's time to get some chickens! Now it's only the question whether I'll be buying some young chickens who were born this year, or wait for baby chickens beginning of next year... Choices, choices...
Oef, nog een uurtje kunnen werken aan het kippenhok. Een luxe, als je twee kleine kinderen hebt rondlopen. Het begint stilletjesaan een beetje vorm te krijgen. Aan de zijkanten werden kleine poortjes gemaakt om zo aan de eieren te kunnen. er werd een 'dak' op gelegd, en een goot geplaatst. Dit alles zal worden afgewerkt met plastic en dergelijke en dan mogen de kipjes erin! Nu rest de vraag.. Neem ik jonge kippen van dit jaar, of ga ik begin volgend jaar voor kuikens?
A lot of the goods you buy are cheaper when you buy it in large quantities. For example. A small sacket of 150~ grams of seeds or such would cost me about a euro. Perhaps a bit more even. I bought 5 KILOS of seeds of a 'forgotten vegetable', which is called Eeuwig Moes in dutch. It's a vegetable that can live up to 40 years and regrows itself after it's cut.
Growing flowers, vegetables, fruit,... and selling them!
Next to the eggs that occasionally leave the premises, I also grow a lot of plant varieties. This can include Pachysandra Terminalis , a ground covering plant. Or the exquisite Pineberry for example. For the time being people can come at our place and collect these fruits of our work for a very cheap price. In the foreseeable future I plan on sending plants, seeds, roots etc through mail or through a delivery service, if the interest is big enough.
I will occasionally add some more news about the garden in future blogs.
We've been living in the Netherlands for about 8 months now, and we're keeping chickens. 6 to be precise. Although they lay eggs on a regular basis, it just isn't enough to meet our demands. We have friends, family and neighbours who also love our freshly laid eggs. That's why I decided to add another henhouse. After browsing through multiple suppliers I thought to myself hmmm... It's not the cheapest thing around that can be purchased! So what did I do? I began to think about the possibility to build one myself. For the next two weeks I drove around and collected excess wood and pallets that companies, people like you and me, were about to throw away. I collected Europallets (!), bogus pallets & MDF planks.
Then I decided to actually start making one, of which I am in the process of doing. After about 1,5 hours of work it kinda looks like this.
Notice that it's a work in progress. It will be able to house approx. 16-20 chickens I believe.
