my garden diary

  • Finally some life

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    rollinggarden

    March has been a very cold month. Even with the past couple of warm days, we’re actually catching up on the heat we should have got during the first couple of weeks of March. Usually, by the end of March,…

  • New bulbs

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    rollinggarden

      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….

  • Seedlings week 12: more sowing

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    rollinggarden

    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…

  • Planting new strawberries

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    rollinggarden

     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…

  • As dry as a bone

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    rollinggarden

    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…