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Hallo! Wie Geht es Ihnen? It’s been a while since I posted my last blog, and I thought that my first placenta tree planting experience will be an interesting and unique topic to write about. Before anything else, please join me in raising a toast for being a proud grandmother to a beautiful and healthy baby boy - our first grandchild - who was born in late summer this year.   In keeping with family tradition, I flew to Austria - the land of Edelweiss - to assist my daughter with childcare and house concerns until she has fully recovered from childbirth. Thus, the brief hiatus from my monthly blogs. What is a Placenta? Based on medical references, the placenta is a pancake-shaped organ that develops inside the uterus during pregnancy. It is made up of blood vessels and provides a developing baby with nutrients, water, oxygen, antibodies against diseases along with a waste removal system. It attaches to the uterine wall and connects to the baby via the umbilical cord. The pla...

How many fruit trees have you planted from seed?    When the pandemic started and I became engrossed in gardening, I made a resolve to plant fruit-bearing trees and to germinate seeds myself instead of buying from outside seedling providers.  My thinking was that if I am able to germinate seeds from good quality fruits, then I am assured of harvesting the same quality of fruits in the future. I also saw the need to optimize the use of my limited garden space where trees do not have much room to spread their roots and branches, much more to accommodate a tree that does not bear good quality fruits. Not only is it space-consuming to grow a tree. Time, effort and money are involved in growing a tree before it starts bearing fruits. It can be very laborious or expensive if later on you decide to have it cut or uprooted when the fruits are not as good as you expect them to be. I give credit to my mother for growing an avocado tree in her small yard from the seed of...