my garden diary

  • Main garden progress 16-22.05

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     Lots of showers, heat, and wind is the easiest way to describe the week behind us. The temperatures have been way above average, and except for Wednesday and Thursday, daily temperatures have been over 30°C(86°F). This is of course stressful…

  • Drying elderberry flowers

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    Elderberry flowers are something I absolutely adore, the beautiful small white flowers, although don’t seem like it, carry loads of taste and are a great ingredient to make syrup, cordial, or even jam. Elderberry fruits are also excellent, but the…

  • Side garden progress 16-22.05

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    rollinggarden

     This year, besides the main garden, we’re making a side garden. It has been a lot of work and we still haven’t finished, but we’re making some progress. The small veggie garden is finished and mostly planted. I’ve planted 4…

  • Harvesting and cooking brassica greens

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     I’ve never had such an early brassica harvest in all my gardening years.  This year I decided to try a new approach to growing brassica greens. Usually, I’d sow the brassica seedlings around March, transplant them in the middle of…

  • Summer seedlings

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    Now that all the spring seedlings have been planted, I finally got the time to organize the rest of the seedlings. They were everywhere. Some were kept in the front yard, others in the side yard, and some even in…