SARAH THE GARDENER
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Wrapping my head around the cool season
Ok so I’ve done some thinking…. About how I will tackle the next season. But I’d like to say that this is as convoluted as getting my head around crop rotation in the first place! Once I realised this, I…
Read MoreSummer can’t last forever
Today is hot. There is a gentle breeze coming off the sea, but in the microclimate of my garden, the wind speed monitor is turning lazily without a care in the world. The hot sun beats down on the black…
Read MoreLetting go of summer days
I can’t put it off any longer. While the days are full of heat, the kind we haven’t seen all summer, and the air is thick with the sounds of cicadas, finally able to bask in the kind of temperatures…
Read MoreThe signs are changing
With the New Year upon us, I have had little time to care for the garden as well as I’d like. Technically we are still on holiday so days spent leisurely tending the garden for all my hearts delight is…
Read MoreThis is such a weird time of year
The in between season. I’ve still got things in the growing in the garden. But not a lot and they are close to being labelled ‘past it.’ But they are still there needing to be eaten. There isn’t much that…
Read MoreOut with the Old … In with the New
Sometimes in the garden you have to make difficult choices. Take my fennel for example. It seems to be like some kind of crop in my garden where it doesn’t seem to want to stop. New bulbs seem to form…
Read MoreCrop Rotation Conundrum
I have tried to take my crop rotation seriously, but it is so confusing! I think I have ironed it out and use signs that I rotate to the next bed each year. A simple solution that means I don’t…
Read MoreIt’s my garden – I can change my mind if I want to.
I cleared another three beds yesterday. Or should I say I cleared 10% of the garden. That sounds way better described like this. I am such a hard worker doing 10%! But if the truth be known, it was actually…
Read MoreThe start of daylight savings is a great time to rotate crops.
Gosh it was so hard to sort out my crop rotation – I nearly worked up a sweat! Actually no – it was so simple. A couple of years ago I came up with a three pronged crop rotation system…
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