Spring is here. Weather is warmer. Colours are back. Flowers are everywhere. Life is dandy, right? No! My garden is being marauded by slugs and snails, and I don’t know what else. I was looking forward to enjoying the spectacular view of homegrown colourful tulips in April—views of long, slender, green stalks holding up the …
Month: April 2023
In my last post on 4 March, I started the new homegrown vegetable season by sowing tomato seeds. I planted 3 tomato varieties in 9 little pots and left them to germinate. Since frost might still strike this region anytime between March and May, the future seedlings would have to sit on my veranda until …
Mesclun greens, Carrots and Spinach I have not been lazing around since the sowing of the tomato seeds. I followed up two weeks later sowing the seeds of carrots, spinach and mesclun greens which I bought from Jardiland, the local gardening store. This time the sowing took place outdoor though, directly in the vegetable bed. …