On the way to Lake Garda, a stop in Affi to do some shopping. In Italy, masks are also mandatory in shops at the moment. Above all, we keep our distance, it protects better than masks.

Here the soil has a slightly different vegetation and the spider’s garwort loves this place very much, nowhere else in the Campo does this orchid grow so lush.

The Brescian Clan-des-Team is ahead when it comes to our doorstep between Assenza and the island of Trimelone. Then she gets to the buoy quite well. If everyone gets stuck outside while turning in, the bottom splashes into the water and the ship is additionally braked. . If the jib doesn’t come around right away, … Read more

Today was shopping day, in Campo it is definitely too wet for us! Hopefully it won’t be hailing here. The heavy rain falls from the sky like buckets.

Not only do the butterflies like to nibble on figs, Angi also loves them and enjoys the natural sweetness of the aromatic fruit.

It is important that the base of a dry stone wall is created correctly. At least 1/5 of the height for flat stones. The base should be set carefully so that the wall can be built with a 75 ° slope. https://youtu.be/mNmIrHSSvEc Round stones can also be used sporadically, but must be supported on the … Read more

Now in the hot season, with a bit of luck, you might see an emerald lizard. The specimen is 37-38 cm long, so it has almost the maximum length, nice with the whole tail attached. It’s the first time I’ve caught her for a picture!

The silver-washed fritillary is also often found here with its characteristic scent stripes, it can be easily identified.

The Satyrinae are well represented here with their most common species. He likes that I leave parts of the meadow and only mow where it is necessary.

We enjoy our balcony and the mild summer evening.

The meadow hogweed was also recommended in the past as a means of forcing. Even if the leaves and seeds look clearly different, caution is advised with the umbellifers. Because in my campo there is hemlock, which is then less healthy, or even fatal.

The lacewing in Italy is much larger than north of the Alps. The appetite of their larvae, which thoroughly clears up the baltic aphids, is accordingly. Since I do not use contact poisons, the lacewing can develop freely.

These butterflies can often be found on the Campo. Here he has chosen a clover blossom. https://youtu.be/-rzBtKkRE7Y

The lush summer meadows are often visited by the insects. Many wild bees and butterflies like to nibble on the knapweed.

There should be another harvest this year. It rained a lot and the olives turned out beautiful. Now you need a sunny September, then nothing stands in the way of a good olive oil.

Dry stone walls offer a popular retreat for many small animals and insects. Lizards, snakes, scorpions and wasps that build their nests there, as Angi recently had to learn painfully.To build a dry stone wall, the stones must be at least 1/5 the depth of the wall height if they are flat and rest on … Read more

Our favorite flower in the Campo. In those days it started to bloom. I have the impression that it has even expanded a bit in recent years.Tomorrow I’m going home again. I would have endured it even longer, because you can discover something new here every day.

The scarce swallowtail can often be found here in the Campo, in the thermals it often glides a few meters over the meadows.Linnaeus gave the scarce swallowtail and the old world swallowtail the species names podalirius and machaon, based on the brothers and ancestors of medicine. Podalirius is assigned internal medicine, diagnostics and psychiatry as … Read more

The bright red little beetles live on lily plants. Here on the panicle of grass lily, which is sprouting its panicles these days, but still has closed flowers.

After a week of weeding, we removed the fleabane from over 1000m2 close together in the new campo and also uprooted the plants on the other plots as usual. Angi did most of the work, a big thank you!I mowed the new campo on the area where the blackberries were standing, except for a few … Read more