vegetable seedlings
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Tomato and pepper transplanting
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When the thermometer shows 28°C(82.4°F) there’s no more reason to keep the seedlings away from the garden. The last frost date is May 15th, so there’s no more danger of sudden temperatures drop. This is why this week, while my…
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Seedlings week 16: Everything out
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After a long period of carrying in and out, last Thursday I finally moved all the seedlings outside. The heated shelves have been emptied, and the wardrobe is now filled with blankets and clothes. The temperature past 14 days has…
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Potato and brassicas planting
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One big job never comes alone, there are always dozens of smaller jobs that need to be done at the same time as the big one. This situation followed me throughout the last week. While we were moving the soil,…
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Seedlings week 8: more brassicas
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After 8 weeks, the seedling shelf is now a small seedling forest. The seedlings that I’ve transplanted last week are growing well, and there haven’t been any lost seedlings. This week I’ve decided to transplant my leggy brassicas to…
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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…