Garden diary
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Struggling with peas
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Peas are clearly not meant for my garden. I’ve been trying with different varieties of peas during the past 10 years and nothing seems to work. Before I’d had huge harvests of peas, but since the summers started to come…
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Mulching away
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Over the past couple of years, the gardening world has turned into a mulching madness. Everybody mulches and mulch is the solution to every single garden problem. Heat problem- you need to mulch, disease problem you need to mulch, garden…
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Mixed beds
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This year I decided to make a couple of mixed beds. Usually, I had well-defined beds with just one or two vegetable varieties, and this worked well as long as the year was good for those vegetables. I’ve been trying…
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Lavender harvest
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The beginning of July is my lavender time. I have two big bushes which I grow opposite to every single recommendation that gardeners have. I never cover them or protect them from frost, I don’t use any fertilizers and never…
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Onion and garlic harvest
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June brought us first harvests. The cold has been affecting us for too long so everything is a bit late but still, I’ve started harvesting peas, strawberries, lettuce, and cucumbers. A few days back I’ve finally harvested my onions. I’ve…