my garden diary
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Neverending (weeds) story
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Where there are vegetables there are also weeds. But, this year there are more weeds than vegetables. The rainy summer we’ve been having is making me weed every single time I get in the garden. I rarely get the opportunity…
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Harvests have started
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Unusually warm winter, very dry spring, and rainy beginning of summer did a number on the garden. Plants are much smaller than they should be at this time of the year, especially seedling plants which have been practically dormant all…
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Strawberry surprise
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Last year I decided to renew my strawberry bed. I bought some strawberry seeds hoping I’d manage to grow some fruits from the seeds and to my surprise all of the seeds germinated really quickly. The strawberries I bought were…
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Unplanned vegetable box
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A few years back I got a big old wooden potato box. I’ve painted it and used it to store wood during the winter and as a flower planter during the summer. It was tall enough to plant long-rooted plants…
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Poor pea season is over
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July is the month in which we get our first harvests. Usually one of the first vegetables that give us significant harvests are peas. By the middle of June, pods start forming and the first harvests begin in the last…