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Everything is thriving in the garden. Its been very mild weather this spring but I'm still putting frost cover over everything sensitive to frosts. We're bound to get a late one up this little valley. We've been known to get rouge frosts in February round here. I've made all kinds of structures of bamboo, frost cloth, and bird netting to protect my little plants.
Clockwise from top left: Atlantic (Giant) Pumpkin Vine, Broccoli seedling, sliver beet seedling, lettuce under frost cloth.
This one silverbeet plant has already contributed to many soups over winter, and its still going strong.
This is one of six eight broad bean plants I've got planted around one bamboo frame.
This is one of the gourd vines that I've just planted out. It's got it own little frost cloth roof. I've never grown gourds before. They look just like pumpkins so far. I've made frames out of bamboo for the vines to climb so that the gourds will grow hanging (for better shaped shells).
The new strawberry patch beside the shed. I've got strawberry plants in every little corner of the garden.
Two little grey pumpkin plants under their frost tent.
Everything got a weekly feeding of 'worm juice' from my worm farm this evening. This garden is becoming a huge source of saticfaction...
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society."
Henry David Thoreau
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