Garden diary
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As dry as a bone
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16 days without rain. It doesn’t sound like a long period, but when you calculate in only 60mm of rain since December and no snow this year, you come to the state we’re in right now. The soil is as…
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Seedlings week 11: first sunbathing
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Finally, we’re in the spring. After a really cold period, with morning temperatures reaching -9°C (15°F), the end of last week brought us some warm and sunny weather. I honestly couldn’t wait for this. As soon as the temperatures reached…
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Orchard pruning part 2
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We finally did it. The orchard has been pruned. We managed to find one warm enough day without the wind and finish with the apple pruning. This time my hubby helped me trim the higher branches, so we managed…
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Seedling progress week 10: crates are back
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We’re back in winter. Although the days are sunny, temperatures are low, and in combination with the wind, it’s freezing cold. We had only one windless day since the beginning of March, and the rest of the days have…
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Orchard pruning part 1
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Usually, the first thing done in the new gardening year is orchard pruning, but as this year has been a weird one, the orchard pruning is falling behind and it still hasn’t been done. Our orchard is an old…