Aug
28
At home with Jamie Oliver
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I love to watch Jamie Oliver, not for his cooking skills or smart remarks like: "if you cook the lemon long enough, it will become sweet", which stupid me even tried out just to get some good old medieval knowledge; you cannot turn led into gold, nor lemon into sugar…
I follow his latest series "at home with Jamie Oliver", again not because of the Jamie Oliver recipes but because Jamie Oliver is promoting organic gardening! I don’t know why his organic farmer friend still looks as if he is living in the sixties, but I do love their garden. I just get at ease looking at vegetables that are grown organically. Why? Because in stead of using pesticides, there will be lots of beautiful flowers attracting insects away from the vegetables.
Just strange that after all this good organic examples, Jamie has to take a gun and start shooting organic lettuce… such a waste of good healthy food! It doesn’t take much to make a healthy delicious soup out of fresh organic lettuce Jamie!
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Aug
25
Prepare yourself for the frost
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You need to know the frost date of your area to plan ahead. Before global warming struck, in our region it was safe to say that the first night frost would start at October 1. This means that anything you want to saw or plant now needs:
- to be frost resistant (leek, some cabbage types, some white roots)
- to be harvest-able before the frost bites
Knowing that a salad can still produce quite some leaves in 6 weeks, I am as usual giving it a go, especially "thanks to" global warming, summer season keeps on getting longer!
Aug
24
2 reasons why watering plants is important
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I can hear you say: hello, plants need water so I need to water them: a no-brainer.
True, but that’s only half of the story, especially in summer.
You need to make sure you water your plants deeply! If the water is only to be found on the surface, your plant’s roots will also only grow on the surface. The latter becomes a problem in hot summer days when these roots can burn because of the heat and your plant hasn’t got deeper roots to backup the loss of the surface roots.
So just don’t water your plants a bit: make sure the soil gets wet quite deep!
That’s why I love my planter boxes and especially my elevated flower fields and elevated vegetable fields: as long as the walkways in my elevated fields are moist, that means that the roots on the elevated fields are rooting deep and safe from being burnt.
