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  • Garden planning: How much sun is too much sun?

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     Gardening tips and articles on the amount of the needed sun can many times be very confusing and misleading for a new gardener. We follow the tips that we find in books and online, read the labels on seed bags,…

  • The choosing challenge

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     This week has been a real choosing challenge for me. The dry summer kept my vegetables hibernating until the rain a couple of weeks ago when the plants woke up and started growing like crazy. All of the plants are…

  • Racing with time

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    In my forest surrounded garden season is fairly short. As soon as September comes to an end, and the sun starts shining below the trees, my garden is left without the sunshine. Right now the whole garden gets maybe 2…

  • “Less messy avjar” or ajvar from the oven

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    Last year I made ajvar for the first time in my own kitchen and completely alone. Of course, that meant that I also had to clean the ajvar mess alone and that’s the experience I don’t want to do again….

  • First pickling marathon finished

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     Finally, I’ve finished with the pickling marathon. It has been almost a week of peeling, slicing, dicing, and jar hunting. I’ve used almost all medium-sized jars that I had at home and filled 110 jars of different pickled joys.  While…