spring
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Preparing for next season part 1 : spring bulbs
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After a long rainy week, the rain has finally stopped long enough for me to get into the garden. The amount wasn’t too huge, we got 30 liters, but it was spread over the 4 days making it impossible to…
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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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Weird warmth continues
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The first half of March continued the trend of this winter. Weird warmth is still hitting us. I honestly can’t say when was the last time we had such nice and sunny weather in March. Daily temperatures are well over…
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Annual raspberry pruning
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This week we had lots of sun and unusually warm weather so I used it to do as much garden work as I could. The manure has been spread and mixed with soil, I’ve pruned my roses and now came…
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Using pelleted manure for the first time
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Manure is one of the important elements in gardening. During the years the vegetables drain our soil of minerals which they need for good growth and our soil can become poor giving us poorly grown plants and each year fewer…