Sowing Garlic with a Dibber
Since I am upping my garlic plant number this year I decided to make a multipronged dibber to make my …
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Autumn Buckets of Tomatoes
As stated before, it has been a weird year. Especially for tomatoes. Normally I get my largest harvest of my …
Saving Seeds: Celery
Celery sets seeds in its second year. That is, you have to wait a year after planting to get seeds. …
Vegetable Garden Hail Damage
A unusually hot and dry summer till today. When we got lots of rain and some hail. We could use the rain. But this storm started as a real downpour dropping 1.5 cm (0.6 in) of rain in the first 15 minutes. And of course the hail. […]
Saving Seeds: Onions
I have been saving seeds for a few years now. Mainly because I can never seem to get fresh seed here locally that I want for late summer and fall sowing […]
Zucchini Update
Some photos about a month apart showing my planting of my zucchini starters, their growth, and some harvest…. [more]
A Stout A Cigar And Rain
We had a very cold May. Then most of June was a heat wave and very dry. But today, July 1 was cool and we had a gentle rain. Weirdly I can not remember when we last had a gentle rain. But I do remember when I last had a dark beer and a cigar. It was over two years ago on a road trip to Krakow Poland. I have been many places in nearly 30 countries. Most places are on the visit scheme of things, been there and done that. Been there so no need to go back. But Krakow is one of those places I would definitely go back for a visit. […]
Drying Garlic
This year’s total garlic harvest came to over 200 garlic bulbs of good size, with about 30 little ones that will be used pretty much immediately since I ran out of garlic from last year already.
Drying is pretty easy for me. […]
Another Tramp Abroad 