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Blackberries: how to store them for winter
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Blackberries are one of the berries that we rarely store. Due to the high water concentration, blackberries can easily spoil and are mostly used as fresh. But there are plenty of ways to store blackberries, especially bigger amounts. Blackberries on the wires I grow my blackberries on wires. A few years back, we had two…
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Storing red currants for winter
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June is red currant time. Like all berries, currants don’t ripe all at the same time, so they can be hard to store for winter. The usual way of storing them is to freeze them in bags or processed them in juice, syrup, or jam. I used to store my red currants this way before.…
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Tuesday is harvest day
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Lately, I’ve converted my Tuesday morning into a harvest morning. I don’t know why but Tuesday is a day when I usually harvest my veggies. Mondays are just too busy, I usually dig both the main and side garden, clean thoroughly the house, cook, and do a couple of loads of washing, and harvest is…
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A very busy March
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Although it didn’t seem like March would be any different than any other month it has been actually one of the busiest months in a long time. I’ve been running around the past couple of months, but the past 5 weeks have been so busy that I’d get up at 4am, work until 8pm, shower…
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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 through June. Few warmer days are interrupted with quick and strong rain periods which drop…