Growing
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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…
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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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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…
