Allotment gardening
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Daily Gratitude Challenge 2026 – Progress
It’s starting to grow! What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Today I’m grateful for an amazing sunny Sunday in February. I took my bike up to the allotment garden and started some more seeds. I also enjoyed listening to the birds and nature around me. What are you grateful for today? Please tell me in a comment. Maria
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Weekend Coffee Share – Let the fun begin!
Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Can I get you a cup of coffee? Or tea? It is snowing outside.. and I started planting seeds yesterday. What? Why? Isn’t it a bit early, you ask. Well, I only sow seeds that benefit from the natural cold stratification to trigger germination. I have them outdoors in…
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Today I spent some time making a map of my allotment garden. I placed all the perennials in their places, and now I can easily see the spaces available (the empty squares are empty garden beds) for annuals. Annuals are plants that only live for a year. In colder climates many plants are grown as…
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Today I am grateful for the endless possibilities ahead of me this upcoming gardening season. In a garden the saying “Imagination is the only limits” is very true. Imagining how I want my garden this year fills me with gratitude considering all the possibilities. As the snow keeps falling I enjoy planning for a bountiful…
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Would you like to join me in this Daily Gratitude Practice 2026? Maria
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Would you like to join me in this Daily Gratitude Practice 2026? Maria
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Nothing makes me feel rich in the garden as when my berry bushes are full of ripe berries. When I first got my allotment I started to plant a variety of berry bushes, and now I have many different berry bushes at my allotment garden. Raspberries are my children’s favourite, even now when they are…
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February is the time of the year when I go through all the seeds I’ve saved in my personal seed bank, and order new seeds as needed. The ones I “needed” this year arrived in the mail today. What are you grateful for today? Would you like to join me in this Daily Gratitude Practice 2026?…
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Favourites in the garden is a series about crops that I love so much that I keep growing them year after year. Crops that I am extra grateful for. One of these are pumpkins. In the photo you can see a previous harvest of New England Pumpkins at my allotment garden. Most pumpkins are edible,…
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