my garden diary
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New bulbs
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While I was shopping for strawberries I couldn’t help but to buy some new bulbs. I actually love bulbs. Most of them, if bought from a good store, will grow beautiful flowers and you always get what you wanted….
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Seedlings week 12: more sowing
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Things are warming up really fast. From winter temperatures, we’ve jumped to the first day when we don’t need any house heating at all. This morning I didn’t even turn on the air conditioning or the electric radiators. One radiator…
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Planting new strawberries
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There’s no better way to start the spring than with a new order of seedlings and bulbs. A few weeks ago, I ordered a fairly large amount of goodies from our Garden center Sieberz . This isn’t the first time that…
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As dry as a bone
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16 days without rain. It doesn’t sound like a long period, but when you calculate in only 60mm of rain since December and no snow this year, you come to the state we’re in right now. The soil is as…
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Orchard pruning part 2
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We finally did it. The orchard has been pruned. We managed to find one warm enough day without the wind and finish with the apple pruning. This time my hubby helped me trim the higher branches, so we managed…