homesteading
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I’ve just started to read a very interesting book. I am grateful for books that make me think. What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share! What can I get you? Coffee? Tea? As you can see we are at my allotment garden. It is finally time to start transferring the plants from our winter sowing. These plants where started outdoors, from seeds February 21st. They have never been inside and therefor they are more…
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The cold planted seeds are now seedlings, that are getting slightly bigger every week. In about a month I’m going to plant them in raised garden beds. What are you grateful for today? Maria
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Today I am grateful for this Easter weekend. I have four days off work to enjoy with my daughter, and the things that are important to me. Today I had a long conversation with one of my best friends, another long conversation with my daughter, went for a long bike ride, and finally spent some…
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Judging from the picture above this might not look like much…but it is! It is my oregano surviving the winter in a gardening zone it shouldn’t. Last year my herb garden did very well. In my part of Sweden the majority of herbs are grown as annuals. My oregano plant looked strong and I decided…
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For a few years I’ve been working with a combination of different types of composting methods such as bokashi, wormfarms, recycling yard waste, Hugelkultur raised beds, as a result every year my compost produced a little bit more of that desirable black gold. It looks like 2026 is the first year I do not have…
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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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I am grateful for all the gardens that are a part of my gardening journey. This is an experimental garden I had in California back in 2018, where half of the garden was planted in-ground and half of the garden was a container garden. My daughter had begged me for years to have her own…
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Welcome to the weekend coffee share! Let’s have a warm beverage together and talk about the week. What would you like? Some coffee? Or tea? The weather is still warm, we’ve had lows of 50F/10C during the night and slightly warmer during the day. It’s been a grey week, with light rain some days. A…
