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Oct
16
The lazy October gardener
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Still no frost on my part of the globe, although the leaves on the trees are becoming quite colourful, so there is no doubt that autumn is around the corner!
My freezers is quite piling up with the harvest of this year, but luckily there are some lazy tricks to get yourself a bit more storage place: use your own garden!
Some crop can withstand a normal winter as long as you cover them with enough mulch to keep the soil from freezing. I am talking roots and bulbs here: carrots, parsnips and onion. Just leave them in the ground and dig them up when needed. In the end if winter is "normal" your whole garden is a refrigerator or freezer 
Oct
12
Gardening in October
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October is actually still quite an active month when it comes to gardening, so it’s quite a nuisance that I am having back pain. Never mind, putting on more cream makes me feel as hot as in summer. Anyway, I feel better than yesterday, so that’s a good sign I find.
Meanwhile October is a month of getting bulbs and roots out of the soil so they don’t freeze and putting new bulbs into the soil so they can get their period of cold before they start blooming again. yes, you get that right: thanks to the cold of winter you will be able to have tulips in spring!
Add to that : you cannot leave your land uncovered, so keep on throwing lots of seeds on your land in October. Since seedlings won’t grow big in autumn nor winter, you better add an excess amount of seeds so the little sprouts will still manage to cover the soil. Better late than never! Saves you a lot of work in spring and keeps your soil in good condition.
Oct
8
Hyacinth forcing
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It’s now the ideal to prepare yourself from having some colors and flowers into your house in winter.
All you have to do is pot up some of your favorite spring flowering bulbs.
Then you store these pots in a cool, dark place, until new growth emerges from the soil.
Once you see that happening, it is time to move your spring flower bulbs in front of a bright window.
I love to do this with hyacinths as I just love their perfume in a further on cool winter house. But I advise you try with the flower bulbs you can lay your hands on, so after one winter, you know what works best for you!
