Garden
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Monthly review: July
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After a very cold beginning of the month, the end brought us the heat we’ve been missing and turned this month into an average month with above-average rainfall. But let’s start from the beginning. June has made us heat hungry…
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Tackling the weeds day 3
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After I’ve cleaned 2/3 of the garden, today was the day to continue the cleaning. I still had plenty to do. I started cleaning my chard/ex pea bed. After I’ve harvested the peas I’ve sown some more chard on the…
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Cleaning beans and brassicas
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After waiting a day for the soil to dry I decided to clean up the weeds around my brassicas and beans. This year I didn’t make a single bed of beans or brassicas but rather I’ve scattered a few smaller…
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Neverending (weeds) story
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Where there are vegetables there are also weeds. But, this year there are more weeds than vegetables. The rainy summer we’ve been having is making me weed every single time I get in the garden. I rarely get the opportunity…
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Harvests have started
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Unusually warm winter, very dry spring, and rainy beginning of summer did a number on the garden. Plants are much smaller than they should be at this time of the year, especially seedling plants which have been practically dormant all…