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LifestreamThe elusive raspberry thief is at it again. I was bribing him (her?) with almonds for a week but he seems to be back on the raspberry diet again. Edit: I took some new photos in less gloomy weather. Still through a window but at shutter speeds of 1/250 (f7.1) to 1/160 (f8) which is [...]
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The cotoneaster just had to go. Regrowth was spotty at best and it would have taken years for the hedge to reform. Not only was it a real bother to get the veritable mountain of entangled branches to the city dump, and uprooting the stumps by hand, but being such a hopeless tree hugger and [...]
Overall a very disappointing sale. All I got was a Gardena bypass pruning lopper 780 BL with gear transmission. I actually returned my old lopper, citing quality issues. It was a real piece of crap to be sure. The gear transmission on this one seems to be leaps and bounds better. It is also far [...]
About 56 blocks, about 8 meter circumference. Well, it’s a start! Plus I got to inaugurate my angle grinder. Worked like a charm and didn’t wear down the disc all that much. Picasa: Garden 2010. So far the gardening season has been ok. Not as dry as last year, though a tad chillier. Almost everything [...]
Some ideas on how to get rid of that awful slope once and for all. Proportions are pretty much accurate. Google Sketchup would be the perfect garden planner if there were only more specific components you could download. As it stands, whatever you do it tends to become a bit generic. Plus some of the [...]
Gardening 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.
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 Black&Decker [...]
