Garden diary
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Garden diary week 8: Unexpected snow
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After a week of late spring warmth, we jumped back to the winter. In just 24h temperatures dropped from 15°C(59°F) to 0°C(32°F). Rain, which started on Friday, quickly changed into the snow covering the garden and the yard. The good…
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Garden diary week 7: Using the spring weather
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After a very cold week, the last 7 days have been extremely warm with May temperatures. Of course, I had to use this kind of weather to do some garden work left behind last year, and prepare the garden for…
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Garden diary week 6: still waiting for the warmth
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We’re still waiting for spring here. The weather has been sunny but really cold. The soil has been completely frozen, and there’s not much that can be done outside. We’ve had no rain in February, but since December and January…
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Garden diary: week 5 – a break from cold
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January and February are very slow months in our garden. There’s not much going on since temperatures are just too low to grow anything outside. Luckily this winter wasn’t as bad as we’re used to. We had a couple of…
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Growing big amounts of seedlings in a small space
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Usually, when we start sowing our seedlings we sow as much as we can keep indoors. But, when our needs start going beyond the necessary space do we stop growing? Or can we find a way to sow hundreds of…