Category: Gardening
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Repotting and Plotting
May has been so rainy and cold so far that I’ve been procrastinating working on our roof garden. Additionally I felt demotivated because most of my herb seedlings didn’t make it this year. 🙁 Curiously, the veggie and fruit plants have been thriving. On the top right of my raised bed you can see the…
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Gardening Update: Sprouts!
Week 1 As a reminder, I sowed the following vegetable and herb seeds (from left to right, top to bottom: Vegetables Herbs Tomatoes Basil Strawberries Marjoram Cape gooseberries Thai basil Mixed salads Dillweed Arugula Sage Cucumber Rosemary Chili Cilantro Everything sprouted very quickly. Especially the cucumber sprouts grew incredibly fast! At the end of the…
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It’s Time For Gardening!
Gardening is something I love and loathe at the same time. I loathe it because I don’t even really have a garden. I just have a terrace garden, an urban garden, call it what you will. That means there obviously isn’t much room for gardening. Little space and plants growing in pots sadly means that…
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Winterizing
I’ve slowly winterized our terrace garden over the past few weeks, even though it makes me feel sad to say goodbye. 🙁 I’ve harvested the last tomatoes and chilis, pulled out the annual plants (mostly flowers, the tomato and chili/pepper plants, some herbs), and planted a few winterproof plants and bulbs for spring. Now it…
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Abloom
A lot has changed in our roof garden since my last post! As you might remember, we were overrun by diverse pests like fungus gnat larvae and Greenhouse whiteflys (and greenflys, and leafhoppers … 2019 hasn’t been kind to our gardening ambitions). I killed most of them using nematodes and neem oil, but not every…
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A pest infestation and climbing plants
We’ve suffered a bit of a setback in our herb gardening. Some of the plants got sick! Phil googled it after he saw some sort of insect on the leaves, and he says it was probably a Greenhouse whitefly. We’ve been treating the plants with neem oil for two weeks now. They’ve been better (I…
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Spring flowers(!), and progress on my herb garden
Look at my little plant nursery! Isn’t it adorable? In order to make them transportable, I put the pots on a tray before because I keep the seedlings inside overnight and set them outside during the day, a) so they can get some sun, and b) to start hardening them off a bit. I was…
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It’s meteorological spring, let’s start gardening!
Our roof terrace looks rather sad right now. I hope many plants will come out of hibernation alive and well. The yellow raspberry at least is already growing new leaves, the brave little thing. Fingers crossed for the various pepper plants! I couldn’t wait to go to the garden center the moment February was over!…