Category: Gardening
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Harvest
Late summer is really beautiful on our little roof terrace. I’m glad I planted a lot of flowers this year, it looked so pretty and cozy!
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Fruits of Labour
We’ve arrived in midsummer, the time were it’s simply gorgeous to spent time in our roof garden. Now that I’ve repotted all my seedlings, I mostly have to maintain. That means watering and fertilizing the plants, cutting dead leaves and sweeping the floor every once in a while. Thankfully we didn’t have any major plant…
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Blossoms and dreams
These are sad times. I’ve been working overtime to use my coping skills so I can keep it together. It isn’t helpful for anyone if I’m stressed and overwhelmed. I try to keep away from obsessive and negative thought patterns – we’re doing everything we can to help Marchesa, but many things are obviously out…
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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…