my garden diary
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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…
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Finally growing and harvesting
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Everything is late. The trees are blooming later than usual, fruits are much smaller than they should be, vegetables are late in their growth, we’re not harvesting as we should be this time of the year, everything is just late….