It has finally stopped raining here in North-East Germany, and the garden is loving the much-needed reprieve. There are no fewer tasks in the garden, though, and with the good weather, I get to take care of them.August brought fruit harvests and last chances to plant. I baked yet another delicious cheesecake--with fresh plums this time. And crawled into abandoned plots for blackberry harvests.

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CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 00:48 Caigua on the balcony 01:22 Pruning the greenhouse 03:38 Harvesting plums 04:33 Plum-crumble cheese cake 05:08 Guilt and severe underweight 05:45 Improvising the crumble 06:33 Family evening in the garden 07:05 Foraging for blackberries 08:56 Pitting the plums 09:39 Preserving the plums 09:56 Support and thanks