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My Wildlife Allotment

If you live in the UK you can vote for my wildlife and climate-change allotment garden in a big BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine garden competition which wants to find the best garden out of 20 past winners (I am Nadine Mitschunas, Judge`s Choice Winner 2021):

Gardens of the Year 2026 - Best of the Best

https://www.gardenersworld.com/news/gardens-of-the-year-2026-best-of-the-best/

My allotment is full of flowers, fruit and veg and a happy place not just for me but all the wildlife as well. 🦋 🐝 🕷️

Russell Hampton Mar 12

@MyWildlifeAllotment You got my vote! Love the informality of your garden!

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 12

@friendslive Thank you 🙂 My allotment is very naturalistic, I don`t like regimented flower borders. I have a mix of native and near-native wildflowers, many fruit trees and bushes and some vegetables. I also have 4 ponds. I love wildlife and want to attract as many as I can.

Good to see you back in the fediverse @MyWildlifeAllotment
Hope to see more of your lovely garden again.

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@feinschmeckergarten Thank you. I will try to regularly post some pictures of my allotment again, there is always something going on there 🙂

@MyWildlifeAllotment I actually unfollowed you about a fortnight ago as I thought the account was abandoned. If it hadn't been for the boost of @richrollgardener , I hadn't seen you're active again. Hope it's not just for the competition. ;-) Glad to have you back!

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@feinschmeckergarten @richrollgardener Thank you for following again. I was ill for a while and had not much time so cut back on social media. But thought it will be fun doing some posting again as this is a nice community here on Mastodon. And there is always something going on on the allotment. I have also changed a lot in the allotment and made it climate change resilient, which is still ongoing.

@MyWildlifeAllotment
I know the feeling and situation. I struggled healthwise a fair bit the last two years and sometimes life has other priorities than social media. My blog has been dormant for this period and I need to start there again.
However, we both have the best recharging station available: Our gardens and nature. 🙂
I hope you are / get well again.

Climate resillience in our gardens is so important! I'm looking forward to seeing how you try to cope.

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@feinschmeckergarten Sorry to hear you had/have health problems as well, I learned to manage my problems so I am coping at the moment. Yes nature and especially the allotment has helped so much, just being outside and doing some gardening made me feel better. I will post some more things about my own climate resilience measures in the next months, yes it is so important we adapt and change, business as usual is not working anymore.

@MyWildlifeAllotment As far as I can remember, it was Sally Morgan, author of The Climate Change Garden, who said (roughly) on Gardeners' World:
"We are the first generation of gardeners who cannot rely on the experience of the previous generations."
Unfortunately, that is so true.
#ClimateChange
#ClimateResilience

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@feinschmeckergarten Good point and entirely true. We have to go new ways, try new things, and see if they work. I have planted lots of perennial plants, fruit and veg and flowers, as they are more resilient, and lots of mulching.

G.Matthias Schüler - gmsfotos Mar 13

@MyWildlifeAllotment
Hallo, hab lang nichts von dir hier gesehen. Schönes Wochenende und Grüße aus dem Harz 😀

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@gmsfotos Dankeschoen :-) Hatte nicht viel Zeit und war eine Weile krank. versuche wieder mehr zu posten, es ist immer was los in meinem Allotment.

G.Matthias Schüler - gmsfotos Mar 13

@MyWildlifeAllotment
Das freut mich zu hören, dass du wieder genesen bist. Langsam geht es auch bei uns im Garten los. Meine Frau hat schon mal Salat unter diese Hütchen gesetzt. Und unsere Blaubeeren haben wir in Mörtelkübel gesetzt, weil ständig Wühlmäuse da gebuddelt hatten.

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@gmsfotos ich bin nicht wirklich gesund aber habe gelernt damit umzugehen. Natur und mein garten helfen auch. Blaubeeren habe ich auch, die tragen manche jahre ganz viel, aber die Amseln kommen leider immer zum naschen.

G.Matthias Schüler - gmsfotos Mar 13

@MyWildlifeAllotment
Wir spannen dann immer so ein grünes Netz drüber was es im Baumarkt bei Gartensachen gibt. Oben im Nationalpark dürfen wir ja nicht pflücken.😀

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@gmsfotos Gute Idee. Wir gucken die Amseln immer boese an, manchmal hilft es und sie fliegen weg. Wir haben so viele Blaubeeren das sie zum Glueck nicht alles essen koennen. Einen kleinen Teil geben wir gerne ab and die Tiere.

G.Matthias Schüler - gmsfotos Mar 13

@MyWildlifeAllotment
Heute hat sich der erste "Hungrige" am Vogelfutter bei uns eingefunden. Noch ist der Flieder ohne Blätter oder ob sich rumgesprochen hat bei uns und Nachbars sind Katzen😂 Sonst zwitschert es schon überall in der Siedlung. Wir wohnen halt am äußersten Rand...

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@gmsfotos Oh schoen ein Goldfink. Die gehen bei uns nicht gross and die Futterampeln, ich sehe sie immer and den Karden die Samen rauspicken. Immer in groesseren Gruppen. Schoene Voegel.

Möhre67 Mar 13

@MyWildlifeAllotment
If I would live in the UK I would vote for your allotment garden. It definitely looks like the type of garden I like and enjoy. But I do live in Germany, however, thank you for showing your garden.

My Wildlife Allotment Mar 13

@carrottom Thank you. It is a wildlife and climate change garden with lots of flowers, 4 ponds, fruit trees and bushes. My little paradise. Yes a shame only people from UK can vote, my family is all in Germany and cannot vote as well.