I apologize in advance, dear readers, little time! I need to make some pesto The basil is doing great in the greenhouse. They like heat, not wind, so they are finally in a good place. No more worrying about ailing plants. Now they shoot up, and if I cut off some branches and put them […]
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“After this I’ll continue in the chicken meadow, will you do the office garden then?” I call after Broes, who, grunting, disappears, with a bottle of beer in his hand, because it’s around nine in the evening, clearly after working hours and one can exaggerate everything. The gardens of Termas da Azenha need attention and
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Do you know that Ikea experiment? They’ve put two plants at the entrance of a school. The one plant received nothing but insults, swear words and misery. The other got nothing but compliments and kind words. After 30 days, the difference was obvious. I’ve been talking to my plants for years When I pick the
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In the series “Portuguese Nature” – which appears very irregularly – we talk about what is weeds and what is not. A difficult question, I think, because I don’t find plants worth weeding when they have nice flowers. A lot of weeds have them. Nice flowers And even large flowers. Such as the Zantedeschia, which
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Abundance in the veggie garden We have a lot of leafy cabbage in the garden. And chard – I don’t even know what it’s called in Dutch nor in Portuguese. Broes gains his knowledge from English sites. Of course the obligatory zucchini, which is very blasé, and is pooping out flower after flower, zucchini after zucchini,
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