Garden diary
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Another small harvest
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Although smaller, my harvests are still regular. I harvest my vegetables every 4-5 days depending on the weather forecast. Yesterday I’ve harvested some lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, beans, carrots, kohlrabi, a cabbage, and some strawflowers which I’ll try to dry. The warmth…
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Spring bulbs and planning a new flowerbed
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Today I decided to clean our front yard flowerbed. This flowerbed has been giving me headaches because I can’t decide what to do with it. At first, it was full of summer annual flowers, then I had spring flowers in…
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Orchid problems
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After an adventure with the new plant aka the orchid Keiki, my orchid has been blooming like crazy. It grew 3 stems with dozens of wonderful flowers that were flowering for months. And then out of nowhere, the plant started showing…
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Cabbage transplanting
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Although it’s Sunday, today I’ve decided to do some last-minute cabbage planting. I’ve sown some late cabbages in July and today I decided to transplant them just before the rain next week. I’m not sure the seedlings will have time to…
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Tomatoes have never looked worse
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This year has been a real disaster for tomatoes. First, as I wrote before my tomatoes were struck by Pythium rot caused by infected soil, then the May cold did a number on the seedlings and their height and the…