Thank you, people, for watching my pictures.
Thank you for warm greetings.
I am so proud of beauties we have here.
I always try to make "advertising" of our places. People really dont know anything about us.
Di niels.... There were 2 kinds of berries at those pictures.
One is - russian name kostyanika - Rubus saxatilis. Read about it in wikipedia.
We have a lot of it almost every summer. Berries have rather big stones inside, but OK! They are not very hard.
We make home wine of it (veerrrryyyy tasty), and such jam: berries are grinding through sieve (to remove stones) and heated and then to steriilized jars.
But wine is better. And stones go to
compost place. Nothing to waste.
Other berries, i think you know. Forest strawberry. Sometimes crop is so big that we have hot days to process it.
Those berries here grow at rather dry season. So they are very sweet and contain not much
water.
As you mentioned that you didnt know that Siberia is like that - just Siberia is veeeerrrryyyyy large. And very various.
But even to north from us people have gardens and grow many tasty things.
Things that grow in hard climate are especially tasty.
But the process of
gardening is very hard here.
Yes winters are cold. Sometimes we have -30, and even -40.
Usually winter is -20-15 (Celcius). Continental climate. Much snow. (If lack of snow - then disaster - plants freeze. If too much snow - again not good - flood).
So we make very much efforts to save plants. Plants are covered with wood boxes, compost, leafs and so on. Later it is covered by thick snow.
And many plants die often. Natural life! Everything weak dies. Strong survives. We plant new things. We remove dead branches, dead parts...
As for rains. Climate here is rather arid. But forests! You know what it is. Forests keep humidity.
Actually it is very clear that our climate is for
cattle breeding, not for
gardening. Centuries ago nomads lived here and had sheep, horses.
But now some people have perch trees, pears, prunes in gardens. All have apple-trees, cherry, currant, raspberry, all kind of vegetables, herbs.
Unfortunately i cant save mediterranian herbs - i tried to grow oregano, thyme, clary - impossible! Only 1 summer they live.
Look what we grow in garden, if you have not seen yet:
http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/ogs7/album/68801/
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