Our permaculture-garden project has come a step closer. The many square meters of yellow sand have shrinked a bit after the planting of several trees and plants. At De Batterijen (the best, experts say) we picked up the following:

• 1x apple tree Notaris
• 2x pear tree Doyenne du Comice
• 12 x Raspberry (framboos) Glen Moy
• 4x Ray (Braam) Jumbo
• 1x Black Berries Tsema
• 1x Red Berries Jonkheer van Tets.

For our memory, they have been arranged alongside the fence as depicted. The pear and apple trees will be bown to lay-shapes.

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58 years after the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the flee of the many monks and the Dalai Lama, the Tibetans are standing up against the Chinese. Why?

• The Chinese governments is trying to wipe out the Tibetan Buddhism
•  6.000 monasteries  and temples have been destroyed by the Chinese
• No freedom of speech, press, association and religion.
• Political prisoners are tortured, given no food  kept prison alone for long periodes

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Starting off to turn our garden into a permaculture heaven, the plan is first to remove the square pond where nothing ever lived except for the koikarpers a previuos owner kept there and the waterplants that did not die in the underwater baskets. Luckily Edward came in to help a big bit. In a single day we did:

• remove the walls from the pond. They were filled with that terrible white foam we call peep-foam. The pond foil was hard to get out, but when pulled to the side, the rest of the pond lost its water.

• plants and conifers around the pond have been moved to the small garden in front  of the house. There was nothing but bricks.

The next thing is to fill the pond with the bricks and whatever we have. There will always be a hole, but, it may be okay for some animals and plants to actually live there.

We want your  GFT! 

If anyone has any garden cuttings left, we are interested to compost them - with EM it’s actually fermenting - to fil the garden and make our garden more healthy and living.