Garden
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Drowning in kale
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After a couple of really bad kale years, in which I barely harvested a head or two I started growing leaf kale. First I started with Nero di Toscana kale and the past year I added curly kale to my…
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Time to collect seeds
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The gardening season is slowly coming to an end and it’s time to start collecting seeds for next season. This year I don’t have many plants in the garden that will produce seeds, due to the very cold spring which…
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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…