Category: garden
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Singapore’s Butterfly Sanctuary – The Ultimate Indoor Garden
This is part of my inspiration for my indoor garden. This butterfly sanctuary is kept within the airport in Singapore, it’s incredible!
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The Beginnings of An Indoor Garden
My indoor garden, inspired by the gardens in Singapore. I’m going to grow it bit by bit, got any tips on good indoor plants?
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Guess The Pest
Recognise this? Bind weed. I bloody hate the stuff, it really loves to choke plants. It’s drawn to loose earth, and has a “binding” effect on it, holding the loose earth together. Trust me, once it’s tangled itself in with everything it becomes a pain to get rid of.
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My Spring Onions Are Amazing!
It’s nothing fancy, but my spring onion grow bed has done splendidly this year! All I did was get some from a supermarket, cut the white ends off, stick them in water until they grow roots, then plant them in some soil. These have grown bigger and better than any I’ve bought from a supermarket…
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Potatoes and Greens
Some potatoes that over-wintered, and some fresh spring greens! Bloody love the finds of spring.
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Unexpected Pollinators
Did you know that flies help with hundreds of crops including cacao (chocolate) and a variety of wildflowers? They’re crucial pollinators, second only to bees, with Syrphid flies (hoverflies) being the most significant group, known for mimicking bees and pollinating numerous crops and wildflowers, alongside others like blowflies (Calliphoridae), bee flies (Bombyliidae), and tachinid flies. Flies can be found in harsh weather…
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Peas
Peas – always fun to grow, always decimated by snails in my experience. Every year, I race to do a slug pub, but it always ends up being too late. This year I’m determined to get my peas through the season, uneaten by anything other than myself. Interestingly, they say that one person needs 10-30…
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New Seeds Prepped And At The Ready!
Had family visiting recently, including a teething, cold-ridden 10 month old baby. After three nights of no sleep, I retreated to the garden to do some more seeds. It turns out, garden time is exactly what the kid needed! Soothed him to sleep with no problem! And it soothed me too. God knows I needed…
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Garlic & Potatoes
My second potato patch was paired with garlic over the past winter, and now I’ve got a sea of both. It’s quite beautiful, and honestly, incredibly reassuring, given the state of world affairs and the news these days. Potatoes and garlic are both things I would struggle to go without, but now they’re both on…
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Potatoes & Broccoli
Guess what I grew overwinter? Potatoes and broccoli! I grew the broccoli for the seeds, and this is just one of three potato patches in my garden currently. I think there’s even a garlic plant or two in there. I’m starting to appreciate the plants that grow during the worst times of the year, and…
