Growing
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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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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…
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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…
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Polyculture Gardening-Part I
https://youtu.be/xH4gXYNKm24 I’ve been researching and experimenting on polyculture gardening for a couple of seasons and I can see that it works very well! There are more pollinators and beneficial insects as well as…
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Dividing Sunchokes (Helianthus tuberosus)
Last year I planted half a kilo of sunchokes on the edges of my vegetable garden. They grew abundantly, we made pickles with them and left some on the ground for the next…
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Protecting Seedlings from Harsh Sun
Seedlings from cucurbitaceae family (cucumbers,zucchini, pumpkins), peppers, some flowers and herbs need protection from direct sun until they establish. An easy way to create some shade for them is to place plastic vegetable…
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Improvised Low Tunnel
With the weather being so unexpected this year, I didn’t want my potatoes to freeze. So I made an improvised low tunnel to protect them. There were some willow branches that I collected…
