Royki's Little Garden

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20 mai 2016

Gold nuggets

Today was gardening day and I was cleaning up my vegetable garden getting it ready to plant my zucchini and melon plantlings. Well what a surprise! I had pulled up some plants which kinda looked like radish plants but not quite and as usual I throw the...

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18 mai 2016

Berry month of May

What can I say. Never in a million years did I imagine when planting my first six strawberry plants that I would have this many some day! Three years into my gardening experiment, my strawberry patch now measures 2.5m x 2.5m and has about two dozen Gariguette...

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8 mai 2016

Berry good!

Now is when my potager becomes truly fun! Since the beginning of the week I have gathered 925g of strawberries, a nice bowl every day. I pick them when they are a rosy red and leave them in the kitchen all night and the next day they are usually dark...

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8 mai 2016

Strawberry fields

The merry month of May is here and the weather is quite warm and dry compared to the last two years. My strawberries are producing earlier and abundantly in spite of the cold spell the last two weeks as the sun is quite warm and with May the temperatures...

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15 mars 2016

Spring cleaning my strawberry patch

Today was a nice dry balmy day, perfect for cleaning up my strawberry patch and get it ready for the beaux jours. Normally I should do this on sunday according to the lunar calendar, oups! I have found a new mulch, hemp straw or paillis de chanvre and...

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9 mars 2016

A Rainy Day

March is being true to it's nature and alternating sunshine and giboulées de mars, but as they say, spring showers bring May flowers. So why not talk about material. This year I have decided to diversify my squash and tomato varieties, after all, if you're...

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Tags: mars, tomates, semis, aubergines, courgettes, concombres, melon, technique, 2016

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4 mars 2016

Sowing tomato seeds indoors

Sowing tomatoes indoors is very easy. In late Winter or early Spring, fill small terrines, small plastic trays, with a special non enriched compost leveling off at the edge and press lightly to compact. As I sow several varieties in the same tray, I sow...

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Tags: mars, tomates, février, semis, technique, 2016

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18 août 2015

Nature's abundance

Mi-aout et mon potager donne généreusement. Bien que je n'aie réussi à faire pousser qu'un seul pied de haricot à rames mangetout, il a déjà donné 2kg d'haricots. Un seul pied de concombre et trois pieds de tomates cerise et j'ai des salades tomate-concombre...

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Tags: tomates, aubergines, courgettes, haricots, aout, concombres, 2015, récoltes

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14 juillet 2015

July in my potager

Now into the second year of my gardening experiment, the results are positive and it is absolutly possible to have a vegetable garden in the city. By respecting certain basic gardening principles such as preparing the soil in the fall/winter, mulching,...

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Tags: tomates, aubergines, courgettes, haricots, choux, concombres, juillet, œillets d'inde, blettes, 2015

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2 juin 2015

Rainbows and pots of gold

Waouh !!! C'est tellement chouette de récolter un arc-en-ciel dans son jardin !! "Think I'll walk me outside and buy a rainbow smile, but they're free..." -Maybe Tomorrow, Stereophonics- Poirées or bettes? Both but as they are of the same family as beets,...

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Tags: juin, blettes, recettes, légumes, 2015, récoltes

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