2016 - Royki's Little Garden

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29 mai 2016

Merry month of may

May is coming to an end and the snow peas have become sturdy and are just beginning to flower. I am trying a new and taller variety as I found last year's dwarf variety to be a bit fragile and am hoping for stronger healthier plants. Today is cool and...

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Tags: mai, pois, laitues, épinards, patates, blettes, 2016

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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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Tags: mai, fraises, 2016

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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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Tags: mai, fraises, radis, épinards, 2016

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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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Tags: mars, technique, fraises, 2016

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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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