It’s been a few weeks since you were last able to peek into our garden…and there have actually been some noteworthy changes. We’ve had unusually warm weather here for the last few weeks, with only one brief freeze while we were gone (not that we’re sad about missing that).

I know the the warm spell won’t last forever because the weather in Germany has been anything but predictable while we’ve lived here. But this spring-like weather is definitely making me want to get my hands into the dirt again and grow things. Maybe I could actually get some more seeds in the ground for things that are winter hardy and see just how long this warm spell lasts.

At any rate, the growing is slow in our garden right now. But all the things I planted in hopes of them doing something, anything, in the calm of winter are still growing. The Brussels sprouts plant is actually big enough finally to look like something more than a weed in the garden…

The hardiness of parsley never ceases to amaze me…

The bulbs I planted recently are totally confused and popping up everywhere.

Our salad burnet plant has really been loving this warmer weather. It was looking a bit sickly after the summer heat.

And strangely enough, we are growing two lovely heads of lettuce!

Even the lamb’s lettuce is starting to perk up and show some progress in the aquaponics table.

Speaking of the aquaponics bed, I made an absolutely amazing discovery in our fish tank. We didn’t run our system at all last year and everything was dormant. We had some algae growing in the tank and just hadn’t bothered to drain it. We keep a piece of plexiglass over the top of the tank because we were having trouble with our fish literally disappearing (thanks birds.) So the plexiglass was laying loosely on top and sort of slipped into the tank. As I went to pull it out, I noticed that the tank had cleared and we have three fish inside. They are looking really healthy and happy so getting our system back on track for the spring will definitely be a priority.

I can’t wait to really get going with our garden in the courtyard, and hopefully figure out a plan for our big garden. At least this warm weather has my juices flowing…and my seed boxes are full. Guess I better start building up my stockpile of newspaper pots… 🙂

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