Tag: vegetable garden
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Six on Saturday | 23rd September 2023
It’s been a gentle September, a couple of chilly nights aside. With the mellow temperatures and increased rainfall has come an amazing mushroom foraging season. The late autumn mushrooms are appearing earlier and the late summer mushrooms are still out in droves, so that I can’t walk from the house to the garage without coming…
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Six on Saturday | 16th September 2023
Autumn activities are in full swing this week! We had a cold snap two nights ago, hitting a low of 2°C, so there was a lot of mad scrambling to get all the houseplants back inside that evening. Next week, we will officially start dipping below 10°C most evenings, so it is time to start…
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Six on Saturday | 9th September 2023
I originally meant to share pictures from the flower garden, but those will have to wait because this theme presented itself and I can’t pass up a good theme! It’s autumn berry season, so here’s some that are popping up around our garden! 1. Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) grow in the forest surrounding our house. Some…
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Six on Saturday | 2nd September 2023
Yikes, September! The days are definitely shortening and cooling down, but that doesn’t seem to bother the plants yet. This past week was very damp, which was great for the garden but meant that I wasn’t out there cleaning up as much as usual. This coming week is supposed to be mild and sunny, so…
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Six on Saturday | 26th August 2023
First week back at work, so I’ve not been able to get out into the garden as much as I would like. As a result, I’ve prioritized harvesting ahead of weeding and am just going to have to let whatever is in pots languish a little longer until I can get them into the ground…
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Six on Saturday | 19th August 2023
Just when I thought that I’d missed Finnish summer due to our July trip, it’s reappeared after last week’s storms. It’s been mild and sunny this week, which has been great for catching up on weeding, harvesting, and all the other stuff that I’ve fallen behind on. I’ve even started sowing for an autumn/winter garden,…
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Six on Saturday | 12th August 2023
It’s been a wet and windy week, but I slept through most of it so that worked out well. The predicted big storm did indeed knock over some of my taller flowers, but everything else remained unscathed. Considering we are surrounded by an entire forest of very tall, violently swaying trees, I’m not one to…
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Six on Saturday | 5th August 2023
We just returned from a two-week trip and are dealing with some intense jet lag, so I won’t try very hard to make words work today. Here are some pictures instead! 1. Pinkcurrant (Ribes rubrum ‘Aili’) got picked yesterday. They probably should’ve been picked earlier, since it looks like the birds got about half the…
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Six on Saturday | 15th July 2023
We have now reached the stage of summer where there’s enough sun and rain for everything around us to turn an aggressive shade of green. You can almost see the plants growing while standing in front of them. Despite having experienced this jungle-like state of affairs every year for more than a decade, I’m never…
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Six on Saturday | 8th July 2023
A week of mellow rain and sun has made a world of difference in the garden — flowers are popping up everywhere and the vegetable garden is looking lush but not yet overgrown. It’s a nice, if short, interlude. I took a walk through our adjoining forest this morning, hoping that the chanterelles might have…
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