winter

  • Seedling progress week 4

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     It has been 4 weeks since I’ve sown my first seeds for this year and a week since I’ve sown my tomatoes. The seedlings are showing and there aren’t many problems with the growth. The seeds sown in the last…

  • Seed stratification

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     Winter is the time when most of the plants in the Northern hemisphere are dormant. The plants stop growing, some lose foliage, and others disappear completely. The seeds that were dropped during the summer, are also dormant, and once the…

  • Last garden visit in 2021

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     Although my garden is just below the house, December has kept me well away from the garden. It has been really cold and frosty. Almost all of the mornings have been well below 0°C (32°F), and daily temperatures refused to…

  • Shaking and gardening

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     We’re still shaking daily. It has been 14 days since the first earthquake(13 since the gravely damaging one) and we’re still shaking at least twice a day. Since the first earthquake, there have been 408 earthquakes, 44 of those earthquakes…

  • Roots can be a new vegetable

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    Each year we try to clean our garden completely during the fall to prepare it for a new gardening season in spring. We remove old dead plants, we harvest every vegetable, remove every root and remove every single weed. Of…