When we bought our garden in Schlossborn, the actual selling factor was that nothing could be planted. So if nothing could be planted, I had nothing to care for. “Bought”, we told the sellers. We were not interested in the subsidized German Schrebergarten as it comes with lots of regulations and the Schrebergarten Polizei will control it, too.

In our forest garden, even if you were to plant something, you would get frustrated as the plot’s soil is too dense with tree roots, stretching from both sides – fence to natural border of trees. So basically, if it does not grow wild on its own, it will not come up. A bit of Darwinsim, I might add.

Our garden plot is the length of a soccer field (I’d suppose) and unusual things come up through the soil in every season, every year.

We have chopped down 39 of the original 53 mutilated pine trees. Most of them were just hanging dead in each others’ arm branches and were dry enough to be chopped down with only an axe. We have gained much more sunlight which has changed the overall vegetation as well.

View from our garden across the fish pond

The Taunus mountains have a lot to offer and they are beautiful in every season.