my garden diary
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Another poppy season
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This year it started a bit later, but the poppy season is back. The poppies, like last year, are still growing everywhere in the garden, but also like last year now they have a special bed just for them and…
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Struggling with peas
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Peas are clearly not meant for my garden. I’ve been trying with different varieties of peas during the past 10 years and nothing seems to work. Before I’d had huge harvests of peas, but since the summers started to come…
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Mulching away
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Over the past couple of years, the gardening world has turned into a mulching madness. Everybody mulches and mulch is the solution to every single garden problem. Heat problem- you need to mulch, disease problem you need to mulch, garden…
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Rain and heatwave
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After a very rainy May, June started exactly the same. Most of the days were rainy with lots of short showers. Some of them turned into spring storms, while others would just make the garden wet for an hour and…
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Buying more plants
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For a gardener, there is no better feeling than to hold in his hands a new plant. With Covid-19 this became easier for us that aren’t well connected to the towns and now we can order our pants online. Since…