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139 Bad-weather garden tour
A garden tour in bad weather with everything you missed because I lost three weeks worth of footage. I’ll show you the new beds I made, how I’ve turned everything over for winter, and give you an update on what’s still growing in November in North-East Germany. A garden tour doesn’t lend itself well to…
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138 I messed this up.
I messed up. I deleted three weeks worth of footage because I pushed off a task that I should not have. I didn’t have up-to-date backups either, and Murphy’s Law hit with some properly bad timing. “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Murphy and I have a very intimate relationship. Unfortunately, this means…
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137 Preserving the harvest
Fall is harvest season. I busily preserved the harvest from my and other gardens. Despite issues with blight, our tomatoes had produced enough for some canning. The neighbor’s apple trees had left me with goo harvests. In the garden, I harvested the rest of the sunflowers. Despite issues with blight earlier in the season, our…
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136 Catching up indoors
The outside world was darkening. Growing food was moving mostly indoors, the focus otherwise shifted to preservation.I switched to indoor tasks–and I had put off enough of them to fill a book. With too few harvests from the garden to keep us fed, I had signed up for the local produce box again. During the…
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134 I needed a break
After two weeks off to soak up the last summer sunshine with my husband, fall fell fast. I couldn’t quite get used to the change in season. It is hard to switch from heat wave to near freezing. There was a week between digging up strawberries on a hot day and looking for mushrooms in…
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135 A million things to get done
For weeks, I’d prioritized the garden, ignoring tasks at home until they became urgent. Now, it was time to catch up on, well, everything. It was too wet for most garden work anyway. I used the time inside to bake crackers, infuse a lemon balm syrup, and catch up on the million things I hadn’t…
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133 Preparing next year’s garden
Work in the summer garden was slowing; the winter greens were in. Soon, I’d need room to grow onions and garlic. I was running out of bed space. I needed to fill the gaps. Work in the summer garden was slowing; the winter greens were in. Soon, I’d need room to grow onions and garlic.…
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132 Doubling my water storage
Water has been a constant issue this year. First, we had too much, then we had too little. I would have run out during the heat wave. The misfortune of others saved me. Over the course of this summer, I doubled my water storage on the off-grid garden plot. Last summer, I redid the roof…
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131 We might stay in Germany
September was a month of fast change. 33 degrees one week, 3.5 degrees the next. Summer to fall in 10 days. It was also the month when a lot of our plans changed. My husband took some time off early in the month, and we enjoyed long walks through the summer forest. We attended a…