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Showing posts with label mulch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mulch. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Garden Update: When Life Started to Stir From the Soil

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Back towards the end of March life started to stir and appear from the soil. First were the spring bulbs in the Cut Flower bed. Th...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Backyard Project - August, Finally the Rock beds are Flourishing

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After working out the bugs in the soil were thriving under a thick layer of straw mulch and eating every sprouting seed, I removed the st...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Backyard Project - Moisture - Mulch - Mulberry

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Ron calibrating the moisture meter. When the rains stopped late June and our dry season began we had to start hand watering all of th...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Backyard Project - Sharing the Fruit and Other Ways of Encouraging Life in the Soil

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We have so enjoyed a small crop of figs off our newly planted trees but we left this one for the ants. The ants are working hard at break...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Backyard Project: Soil Building verses Plant Growing

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Once all of the soil beds had a layer of mulch topped with a deep layer of straw I planted literally hundreds of seeds and waited. Patien...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Backyard Project: Flowers and Hot Mulch

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The garden suddenly turned colourful. In the Cut Flower bed lilies bloomed. This is such a beautiful colour scheme. The ex...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Rough and Loose, Green then Brown - Two Gardening Mantras

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An ant nest found under a mulch of coffee sacks. The ants were forced to move their colony because I was ready to work on the soil in thi...