When I first came to live in the house where I live now I started to look for possibilities to garden in the city.

I only found some small community gardens.  

This was not really what I was looking for.

I have a terras and I started to grow things on my terras: flowers, herbs, and now veggies.

It is a learning process. You have to deal with heat, too much rain, normal nature elements that have changed due to climate problems.

But it gives me a lot of joy to be able to take care of my plants every day.

Last week I went to Germany to visit my niece Gaby whom I did not see for about 17 years. 

During corona, we renewed our contact and decided then to visit each other as soon as it was more possible.

So that is what I did.

She welcomed me in Aachen with self-made bread and marmalade she made from the berries that grow in her garden. We ate beans, potatoes, zucchini, and cucumber from the garden. 

I stayed there for 3 days and we went to the garden every day.

She rents one of the 125 gardens in the 'Gartenverein Lehmkülchen' in Aachen.

Everyone has a garden and a little house where one can sleep and cook a bit and store some material.

I met some of the people there. A young family with a beautiful daughter. She is of Romanian descent and her husband is Turkish. They speak German together.

Another woman grew her vegetables according to the moon cycles. 
A friend of my niece, a woman in her eighties, is a very creative person and makes fairytale like houses and other beautiful things in her garden. She has a wonderful dog. 

On the garden path, we still meet other people. Some of them are artists. 

People meet each other, calm down in nature en have healthy food.

Amazing, isn't it? 

 

I would like to be excused for any mistakes I write. 

English is not my mother tongue but I like to reach people with my little blog.

Thank you.