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LifestreamGardening is going great so far. The pallet collars, seen here with potato sprouts, got an addition and a heavy metal black coat of Falu Rödfärg.
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This year I tried no less than five new varieties: Rocket, Minerva, Pentland Javelin, Princess and Timo. I used to grow Early Puritan, but sometimes you have got to try something new.
Out of the five, only one – Princess – was a clear disappointment in terms of taste. As one who grows potatoes for [...]
How about a wheelbarrow for a mere 87 SEK? Sure, it isn’t much of a wheelbarrow, surely not for carting gravel or cement, but it will do just fine in the garden. Hörby Bruk, Ekeby 21.
The season is almost over but I believe there is one more picking to be had still. Not bad considering I only have one out of three patches producing at full capacity.
I can’t say that I’ve had much success with garden trimmers so far. The story so far goes something like this: I spontaneously acquired a cordless Black&Decker GLC2500. It didn’t work since the battery capacity was way too low. Unlike the price which was quite high. So I returned it. I then bought a [...]
A local supermarket had a 50% sale on garden utilities, including Gardena garden tools and irrigation systems. It’s easy to get carried away isn’t it.
The best investment ever when it comes to moving bulky / heavy potted plants around the garden or into winter storage. I should have thought about that a long time ago, especially now that one get a decent model for less than 300 SEK. I used to have this older “brick and mortar” hand truck [...]
Euphorbia pulcherrima + Brugmansia. The towering and majestic brugmansia specimen is the pride of the backyard this year.
So the last trimmer didn’t really work. I decided to go back to an updated version a corded trimmer instead and the 550W Black & Decker GL 701 QS which is a “faux petrol / brush cutter” type model. I thought about actual petrol a couple of times but decided again that it would be [...]
