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Lemon Tree Guild
English Türkçe Our lemon tree always fell prey to aphids and bark lice. So I created a guild around it with aromatic, flowering and ground covering plants to attract beneficial insects and pollinators,…
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Garden in January
English Türkçe This winter is going quite warm.We had just one night of frost so far. The frequent southwest winds, called Lodos in Turkish, are warming up the weather. On the other hand…
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Volunteer Garlic Sprouts
Türkçe In the first week of December, I noticed some garlic sprouts around our peach tree where I’ve planted some last year. I must have forgotten about them, so they went to sleep…
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Diospyros Lotus (Date Plum)
TR I came across a tall tree laden with berry like fruits and wondered what it may be. I collected some of the seeds of fallen fruit and went home to inspect them!…
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Linden Tree Bast Fibers
A month or two ago I found some pruned linden tree branches on the street and brought them over for extracting the fibers from their inner bark (bast). After peeling the outer…
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Making a Garden Bed Border with Recycled Bottles
If you have a lot of glass bottles at home, you can easily make a garden bed border with them. First of all gather your bottles and place them in a tub full…
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Zucchini with Lemon
If you grow zucchini, sometimes you’ll see baby ones that stop growing. When I was living on the Aegean Coast, I learned a very easy and tasty way to make use of them! …
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Making a Lemon Peel Cleanser without Vinegar!
Here is an easy way to make an all-purpose cleanser with only leftover lemon peels and water! You can use it to clean everything (except marble): kitchen counter, greasy kitchen tub, bathrooms, floors…
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Polyculture Gardening // Part III
This is a spontaneous bed that we created over lawn. Some of the plants are perennials, some of them are annuals. Having perennials in a bed is both challenging and fun to play…
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Polyculture Gardening Part II
Here’s the Part II of our polyculture garden tour. Kale On the outer edge of the bed I planted kale as a living fence. It grows quite high and defines the borders…
