my garden diary
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When COVID-19 doesn’t change your life too much, but the weather does
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Like most of the European countries, we’ve been quarantined for the past 10 days. The country didn’t declare full quarantine, but the restrictive measures that have been implemented have basically pushed us into quarantine. With the standard measures like keeping…
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Orchard disaster
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The thing I feared the most about this crazy warm weather happened this week. After a beautiful and warm February this week, the winter returned and was in full force. The warmth woke up my orchard and by the end of…
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Orchid keiki – or the story of the strange growth on my pretty plant
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One of my favorite flowers has always been orchids. Their delicate flowers are some of the most beautiful flowers I’ve ever seen and in my eyes, they represent something very gentle and sensitive. Still, no matter how much I loved…
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Annual raspberry pruning
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This week we had lots of sun and unusually warm weather so I used it to do as much garden work as I could. The manure has been spread and mixed with soil, I’ve pruned my roses and now came…
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Using pelleted manure for the first time
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Manure is one of the important elements in gardening. During the years the vegetables drain our soil of minerals which they need for good growth and our soil can become poor giving us poorly grown plants and each year fewer…