garden
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Digging the onion bed
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Deep digging is something I absolutely hate doing. There’s no other garden job I hate more than digging. Since my garden is in the middle of the forest, with no access to mechanization, plowing is not an option for my…
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Preparing for a new season
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Although this season is almost over, my balcony is slowly filling with new pots and trays. I’ve decided to do a big change in my gardening. No more empty garden during the winter. I will try to keep the 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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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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Cabbage transplanting
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Although it’s Sunday, today I’ve decided to do some last-minute cabbage planting. I’ve sown some late cabbages in July and today I decided to transplant them just before the rain next week. I’m not sure the seedlings will have time to…