tirsdag den 29. juni 2021

Biodiversitet

     Biodiversitet - at slippe haven fri - giftfri have - giv naturen plads. Kært barn har mange navne, og her i Ugleboet er haven blevet dyrket efter økologiske og naturnære principper i mange år. Ikke altid med stort held, ofte med sære resultater, men altid smukt.
     Billedrigt og snakkende indlæg - det er jo sommer

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Biodiversity -- setting nature free -- no poison -- nature farming. Whatever you call it, it has been a part of how we do things in the Owlery for many years. We have used organic principles from day one, lack of knowledge, time and other resources have often hindered our gardening successes, but it has always been beautiful.
Picture heavy and rambling post - it is summer.

     For mange år siden plantede vi et valnøddetræ. Det belv meget stort, og gav masser af valnødder, der alle var syge. Så vi spiste måske en eller to om året. Så købte vi et nyt træ fra Valnøddemanden, og har nu masser af valnødder til at spise og til at dele med de lokale egern.
     Det gamle træ blev fældet - med håndkraft - og stubben står nu og forfalder.

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Many years ago we bought a walnut tree. It grew big before it gave any nuts, lots of nuts, lots of inedible nuts, because it had some disease making the nuts black and inedible. Then we bought a new tree from a man specialized in walnut trees for Danish gardens. Now we eat lots of fresh ans delicious walnuts every autumn, and we share happily with the squirrels.
The old tree was cut down - using a hand saw - and is slowly falling to pieces.

I år grod der Susan med det sorte øje rundt om træet. Det var vist ikke nogen god idé. en selvsået solsikke gror der også.

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This year I planted Black-eyed Susans around the three. It seems not to have been a good idea, they do not thrive. A self sowed sunflower grows there as well.

Plads til insekter. Oregano er fantastisk til insektfoder, ligesom timian og salvie. Denne mørktblomstrende oregano er også smuk og smager godt på pizzaen. En win-win situation.

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Room for insects. Marjoram is good food for bees, butterflies and so on. This dark flowering one is also pretty and tasty in pizzas. A win-win situation.

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Der er både gode sider, dårlige sider og uventede sider ved biodiversitet

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There's much to say about biodiversity. Something good, something bad, and something in between.

De gode ting  --  Something good:

Skovjordbær som bunddække er godt. De er smukke, humlebierne kan lide blomsterne, vi kan lide bærrene, de er forholdsvis gode til at holde mine "fjernder" - skvalderkål, svaleurt og burresnerre i skak, de er ikke så gode mod snerler, men man kan ikke få alt.


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Wild strawberries are good. They are pretty, the bumblebees love the flowers, we love the berries and they are moderately good at fighting off my "enemies" ground elder, celandine and cleavers. Bindweed not so good, but you can't have everything.

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Skovløg. Uglemor bragte et hejm engang og plantede det. Det jhar bredt sig over hele haven, men det er jo smukt, og let at fjerne på uønskede steder.

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Sand leek. MotherOwl once brought home one from a nearby field. It has multiplied ever since, but it is pretty (edible) and easy to pull up if not wanted right there.

Valmuer. De er bare smukke og forsyner os med birkes hvert år.


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Poppy. Well, pretty and we are never out of poppy seeds for buns.

Hvad mon der spirer frem her? Det er en af fordelene ved ikke at luge hele tiden og i bund. Der dukker ofte nye, spændende ting op ad jorden.

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Wonder what this is? One of the pluses of not weeding too much and too often. We're often given strange, new inhabitants.

Minikiwien er fuld af blomster i år. VI glæder os over dette - og over at den hun-mini-kiwi, Uglemor købte sidste sommer faktis også gror.

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The mini-kiwi is abundant in buds. We're happy, and maybe even happier that the female mini-kiwi we planted last summer has grown much bigger in the past year.

Fin nælde, desværre hankøn, så ingen frø.  --  Pretty nettle, unfortunately male, so no seeds from this one.

De dårlige ting  --  Something bad:

Der er nogen, der spiser mine humleblade. -- Someone is eating the leaves of my hops.

Der er nogen, der spiser bladene på mine stikkelsbærbuske.  --  Someone is eating the leaves of my gooseberries.

Der er nogen, der spiser mine æbleblade.  --  Someone is eating the leaves of my apple-tree.


Både og  --  Both:

Dette her er en sørgelig undskyldning for et radise- og salatbed. Jeg har ikke luget i dag! og det kan ses.

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This is our sad radish and salad bed. I have not been weeding today! as can be seen.


Dette er radisen, der gror i bedet. Den er sikkert hul og bitter - og den rækker ikke langt til 6 personer.

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This is the radish, growing in the bed. I'm sure it's hollow and bitter, And even if not, it's not much for 6 persons.

Men der er hjælp at hente inde i domen. Der står altid noget, for at lokke bestøverne indenfor. Tidsler, blomstrende dild - og en blomstrende radise. Hvordan kan det nu hjælpe? Lad os gå tættere på.

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But in the greenhouse help is on its way. For in the greenhouse flowers are left to attract the pollinators. We have thistles, flowering dill and a flowering radish. How can this help me out? Let's have a closer look.

Tættere på kan man se radisernes frø - skulper. De smager fint af radise, bliver aldrig bitre (men nok træede), og er perfekte til min elskede dild-og-radisedressing sammen med dilden.

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Up close the seed pods of the radish can be seen (siliques if you want to be correct). They can be eaten, tastes like radish, do not turn bitter (only hard) and are very tasty in a dill-radish-dip.

6 kommentarer:

  1. We call it organic gardening here. No artificial chemicals. I try and follow it as well - and in my eyes (and hopefully in the eyes of the birds and the insects) the good outweighs the bad. By a long way.

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  2. I think Biodiversity used to be called Permaculture, but maybe that is something slightly different as there are usually chickens somewhere in a permaculture garden. Your plants look lovely and green, I think the eating is probably caterpillars. If you see tiny black droppings on lower leaves then that is caterpillars, so you look at the underside several leaves higher and maybe find them tiny and green or bigger, fatter and green.

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  3. We managed to get a few strawberries growing, and plenty of nettles.

    God bless.

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  4. Your garden certainly brings you a lot of joy.

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  5. Great thing you do!!
    I have "some plants" on the balcony. still just green, they planted themselves.
    And I think some of my Mum´s strawberries made it to "the garden", I´ll have a look tomorrow.

    P.S. Darn it! I found such a fire thingy and took a pic, eager to join you.
    But I certainly will delete your comment - I just can´t find it (blogger and I are no friends anymore, I searched - maybe it was the internet altogether - it took minutes for a site to open, drove me nuts. Can you ... please... tell me where it was? I really tried. We have bad days here, sometimes...)

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  6. That sounds great. Plants are always good.

    No, no, no. It's not my comment that needs to be deleted, but the "Prove you're not a robot by selecting all relevant thingies (be it fire hydrants, buses, bikes or stairs)" that needs to be eliminated from your comment form. I'll make a blog post on this!

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