While the rest of my family is on vacation, I am at home, working the weekends!

At least it gives me the possibility, to really convey the beauty of having a garden – and if you do have one already, to urge you to plant some flowers which attract lots and lots of pollinators: vetches, sainfoin (of course), cornflower, viper’s bugloss, heather, buckwheat and lavender are just a few of those, which come to mind. The advantages are obvious: not only do you help establish and maintain a healthy population of pollinators, which are also supposed to pollinate your vegetables, but also weeding is just so much more interesting when the air is buzzing around you with life! I used the 2 hours this morning before temperatures became unbearable, to weed the strawberry bed, and here are just a few minor impressions of what I was able to observe: This really is like a small vacation on its own, refilling the batteries to spend the rest of the day at the computer, typing away.

Karsten