garden
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Unplanned vegetable box
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A few years back I got a big old wooden potato box. I’ve painted it and used it to store wood during the winter and as a flower planter during the summer. It was tall enough to plant long-rooted plants…
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Poor pea season is over
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July is the month in which we get our first harvests. Usually one of the first vegetables that give us significant harvests are peas. By the middle of June, pods start forming and the first harvests begin in the last…
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Seven times is enough
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This year clearly isn’t a zucchini year in my garden. Last year I had my first harvests in June, but this year I don’t have any mature plants. I’ve sown zucchinis in March in pots and the first sown seedlings…
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Monthly review: May
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After a very long dry period, May brought us much-needed rain. A total of 121mm fell over a period of 31 days. Much of the rain fell during the stormy showers so they didn’t really soak the soil. The water…
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Finally a long expected rain period
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The beginning of May finally brought us the rain we were hoping for the past 4 months. The amount wasn’t too huge, around 40mm, but it has been raining for 6 days out of 15 so the soil got wet…