Garden diary
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Blackberries on the wire
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For the past 15 years, we’ve been growing blackberries on our wire trellis and I can honestly say that I’d never grow them any different way. Although the flowering season this year was incredible late and it started 40 days…
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Cucumber time
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Cucumbers are one of the popular summer vegetables that most of us grow in our gardens. Some grow them in greenhouses and others outside, some buy seedlings and others grow them from seeds, but we all encounter the same problems…
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Garden in this week
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This week has been as hot as the past couple of weeks. Mostly temperatures have been over 30°C(86°F) with high morning temperatures, but we finally got some rain unlike the past couple of weeks. 25mm of rain was just what…
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Another poppy season
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This year it started a bit later, but the poppy season is back. The poppies, like last year, are still growing everywhere in the garden, but also like last year now they have a special bed just for them and…
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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…