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- Final stage of my Brüssel Sprout #gardenexperiment - reproduction. Started #fromseed last Spring & giving produce a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 years ago
- Phenomenal #gardenexperiment coming to an end - harvested the last of the Brüssel Sprouts on the weekend. Highly-pr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 years ago
- In my defense, the quest for a perfect garden runs parrallel to fanaticism.🤷♀️ facebook.com/story.php?stor… 3 years ago
- How curious! Ever noticed little sprouting seeds in cut tomatoes before; here’s an inkling why. facebook.com/story.php?stor… 3 years ago
- Super excited right now as we harvest our first #homegrown Brüssel sprouts! It’s been so cool watching this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 years ago
Tag Archives: balcony gardening
Golden Oyster Mushrooms Pasta (Gelber Seitling) – Yum!!!
Hubs recently started experiementing in the garden, ‘planting’ a wooden stump impregnated with mushroom spores. As it won’t produce until about August, a friend presented him with a few easy-to-cultivate, pre-impregnated mediums (straw, hay??) in plastic bags. I’ve never heard … Continue reading
The Taste and Scent of Summer
This weekend was AWESOME! I got to enjoy one of my favorite late spring/early summer activities with one of my favorite persons – Hub’s Oma. Nothing holds the taste and scent of summer more intensely as strawberries and no berry … Continue reading
Letting Nature Take It’s Course
Tomorrow is the first of June and the beginning of summer! The moments of preparation and care will now bring forth fruit and hopefully lots of it on a consistent basis. Still, everything’s not as easy as it seems. Last … Continue reading
Getting Started
A few weeks ago, a fellow blogger asked if I’d started on the spring garden as yet, which given our cold, gray skies, hadn’t even been given a thought. The organic gardening stores hadn’t started hawking their wares yet – … Continue reading
Summer Has Left Austria
A month ago, I said goodbye to the last of the spring harvest and looked forward to enjoying our summer fruit. With the erroneous concept that the garden was self-sufficient, Hubs and I took off for a week on our first real … Continue reading
The Weird Gap between Spring & Summer Harvests
We’ve hit mid-July and the garden is still alive. There’ve been no major setbacks – outside of the Okra, which I believe are stunted due to poor placement on my behalf and unstable weather. There hasn’t been any harvesting of the … Continue reading
Posted in My Garden
Tagged balcony gardening, chop and drop, Edible flowers, fresh produce, gardening, natural food, Radishes, Rainbow Chard, Romaine lettuce, spring produce
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Okras in Cloches
Our garden is filled with what we like to eat – artichoke, radishes, rhubarb, tomatoes, sweet & hot peppers, zucchini, peas, okras, sweet potatoes, greens (spinach, lettuce, chard), and herbs. Some of those items can be pretty pricy or of questionable quality … Continue reading
Posted in My Garden
Tagged balcony gardening, cloches, cold protection, gardening, growing Okra, micro-climate, okras, recycled plastic, tropical plants
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