my garden diary
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Garden diary: Slowly starting new season
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Winter is finally showing signs of slow fading. Nights are getting shorter, birds start singing at 5 am, and although the mornings are still cold, the smell of spring is in the air. With the beginning of spring, my gardening season also starts, so it’s time to slowly make our way to the garden. Jumping…
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Garden diary January 2026: Snow and seedlings
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After a couple of mild winters, we almost forgot what our real winter looks like. This winter is reminding us of the past times. A year of snow Mild and rainy, these were the conditions in the previous couple of winters. We had a couple of weeks of snow, but nothing serious; temperatures were so…
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Garden diary 2025 August- October: A very hard garden year is over
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When the beginning of the year starts badly, it is hard to catch up. Garden season 2025 is mostly over, and the results were deeply affected by the very moody weather. The rain came too little too late Summer continued with the heat. Although we did receive the average amount of rain during August, nothing…
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Garden diary July 2025: We got rain and straw
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After years of searching, we finally found someone in our area who sells straw. Now the garden has straw mulch. Together with the straw, we finally got some rain, and now we’re in almost ideal condition, preparing for the late season. The unbearable drought has ended The 14mm of rain that we got during June…
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Garden diary 2025: cold May and burning June
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After a very cold spring, with temperatures below the average, summer came hot and dry. What were supposed to be the two mildest months ended up being a real challenge for us. May May continued the spring’s average trend. The mornings have been around the frost temperatures the entire month, and with quite cold days.…