Growing
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Natural aphid control : Ladybugs!
English Türkçe This year our elderberry bushes are growing incredibly! They put out so many new shoots that on the ones in the inner sections got full of aphids. I didn’t panic and…
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Food Forest in Late Spring
TR It’s the last week of May here . Even though we’re having less and less rain each year in spring, the garden is full of life! The advantage of having mostly perennial…
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Time to Eat Shoots!
As the weather is getting warmer, the growth rate of the plants accelerate immensely! Shrubs and trees grow new shoots, annuals want to flower and go to seed as soon as they can!…
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Compost Bucket for Composting in Situ
Türkçe A simple basket I made using prunnings of english ivy and virginia creeper Another basket type for composting.I just stuck some grapevine prunnings in the ground and wove around it I tried…
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Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden
I’m reading a great book : Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden. It’s a wonderful book about Native American Hidatsa tribe’s gardening practices. There are detailed descriptions of how the tribe used to grow, harvest…
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Wasp spider
Argiope bruennichi – Wasp spider This is one of the spiders I see a lot around this time. It looks a little bit scary, but their focus is insects rather than…
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A beneficial wild plant : Purple Dead Nettle (Lamium purpureum)
With the coming of spring , purple dead nettle pops up all over garden!
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Lemon Tree Guild
June 2023. Curry plant(Helichrysum italicum) is in flower and all the other elements are growing happily! August 2023. All the herbs grew substantially. I expanded the guild by planting Autumn Olive (on the…