Garden weekly review
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Seedling progress week 6: sunbathing first seedlings
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It has been a very very long time since we had a February as warm as this one. Over the past decade, February was usually the coldest month of the year, with constant cold winds, temperatures below zero, and snow and ice, but this year things are different. February started with early spring sun and…
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Seedling progress week 5
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A month after the new seedling season started, the seedlings are making good progress. The issue I thought I’d have with too cold shelves turned out to be a completely different issue: my shelves are too hot. Conditions are almost like summer. This has especially affected the brassicas, which grew huge and leggy. I’ve moved…
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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 week of December have mostly germinated, except for the flowers with a long germination period.…
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Garden in this week
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This week has been as hot as the past couple of weeks. Mostly temperatures have been over 30°C(86°F) with high morning temperatures, but we finally got some rain unlike the past couple of weeks. 25mm of rain was just what we needed. The soil is still cracked and after a couple of days dry, but…