Green fingers

The garden season has started here in Düsseldorf big time. The past few weeks has been nice and mild and the nature has really taken off and the spring is all around us. When other shops has had to close because of the Corona Garden centers, OBI and Bauhaus are still allowed to keep open. A few weeks ago just in the start of this quarantine I went to Bauhaus to get some potts and plants. It was a Friday afternoon and it was me and all other people from Düsseldorf and Duisburg... The line to the check out was long like 100 meter at least and I had to leave everything I had carefully picked as I didn´t feel like staying there for hours. Instead I bought seeds and soil in or local supermarket and started growing in some of old plant potts. I have a window where it warms up very nicely in the sun and I have filled the windowsill with my plantations and they started growing sprouts only in a few days. I have Sugar snaps, parsley, sweet peas and sunflowers for now simple things to grow and which gives a quick result and I like quick results. 

Our local Garden center Böhmann-Ilbertz Garden center & nursery here in Wittlaer is well stocked and I can walk around there for hours. I have done a few trips there the past couple of weeks. I have bought some mediterranean plants Olive tree and some sort of citrus for the balcony on the third floor. I have to admit we don't use that balcony that much but it is connected to my studio and it is cute to have some plants out there and now when we are home so much more the usual we can actually try to enjoy it up there also - great afternoon sun on that side. 

I have used this extra time home to dig that vegetable garden I have thought of for ages. The soil here is like clay and therefore very hard to dig in it but I managed pretty ok next to the garage and also I thought it will be nice to have it next to a wall so my sunflowers can lean against it. For now I have planeted strawberries, lettuce, chive, kale. I will keep digging and fill up with more as we go. Thank God that we have this garden! Kids have been playing a lot out here now when the weather has been great and I am also kept busy with the garden.

Oh yes I am also having tomatoes - the first couple of days before the warm weather came they were allowed to stay in my studio.