This is the logbook about our Campo and the activities related to olive oil.
The rabbit hole looks like it has been committed, maybe by hares. I’ve already seen a hare in the upper Campo. A fox family can be heard further up. But I haven’t seen foxes yet, here you only see the plucking of a bird from time to time, but I have to pay attention to … Read more
The white spotted rose beetle here on a mullein with partner is on the red list in Switzerland as potentially endangered. Since it is a typical representative of the Mediterranean region, it does not belong to the native species north of the Alps.
Chilling is hot! Although the days are getting shorter again, the sun is still setting far to the north behind the mountains.
The yellow wort is a gentian plant and is protected in many places. Here at Campo you don’t see him often, but you can find him here and there. The overgrown leaves and the fact that the plant closes its flowers in the afternoon are strange. The flower actually has eight leaves, but often nine … Read more
It would be nice if we were as rich as we have centaury in the Campo. Centaury belongs to the gentian family.Not only does the herb look beautiful, it also serves as a healthy bitter tea. Ingredients of centaury are secoiridoids, phenol carboxylic acids, fla-vonoids and xanthones. Centaury activates the digestive juices, stimulates the appetite … Read more
Some beetles and butterflies also like fleabane. Here the reddish brown billy goat (stenopterus rufus), which is common with us.
How high is the fleabane (erigeron annuus)? 1m? really? Look below how high it can get with us. Over 1.8m! This plant in the picture grew on a slope, so it is significantly larger than on the plain. But even on the plain it is on average about 1.5m high.Angi did most of the weeding, … Read more
Spring has not yet arrived in Switzerland, but it will come soon. For now it’s still through the snowstorm. From one Covid-19 contaminated area to the next that is only developing. Hopefully this doesn’t get any worse.
In Italy you can only cross regional borders with a pass. Even though I filled out the form, there was no getting through! I got exactly 15km and got stuck in a roadblock. It’s a bit like a war. Since the forms and rules change every few days, the police are not always up to … Read more
From a bird’s eye view it doesn’t look like much, but I cut over 100 trees to 6m and performed the usual pruning. The blue line is the plot boundary of the right part of the Campos, the red line is this year’s campaign. Now the first traps have to be hung up (around every … Read more
The middle part of the campi is now finished. Now a few trees are still missing in the lower part, then it’s back home to Thun.
In spring, when the grass is not that high, the Margritli shine out of the mat. Margritli used to be considered holy and stood for innocence and purity. Even today, the girls like to make wreaths from the flowers and wear them on their heads.Margritli is a popular herb plant and can be steamed briefly … Read more
To reduce disease and vermin, the pruning is burned to branches as thick as a thumb. Thicker branches are processed into firewood and trunks into wood for tools. I hope that I will soon be able to compost the tree cuttings, but for that I need water so that the compost heap doesn’t dry out … Read more
The grape hyacinth is common in the campo. Although it is a neophyte, it is on the protected species list in some countries. The plant was brought from the Middle East to Central Europe around 1600 and was released out of the gardens. The flowers are usually solitary because they do not divide through the … Read more
The first shoots can now be seen breaking out on the olive trees in spring.
In the Campo, some types of sedges grow on the poor soils.
Wild boars were in the campo and loosened the earth around a few trees. The people here hunt the pigs because they think the damage is too great. I also like wild boar, but I am happy to let them go, because they find grubs and eat, which reduces the pests. Here in a churned … Read more
No, no aliens, but the poisonous bryony grows out of the ground. Here in the formerly overgrown part, the bryams could grow for decades and have formed roots with a diameter of 10cm and more. Gradually I dig them up and reduce them to an acceptable level.
In the past, the parcels were combined and divided into smaller and smaller parcels by dividing the inheritance. Now that it’s in one hand again, I’ve set up my lunch table here, with a wonderful view over the lake, but also a view of the Campo, as in the picture, pleases the eye!
The moss provides additional protection on the bark, is antiseptic and is an obstacle to parasitic insects.