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posted by [identity profile] aerianya.livejournal.com at 08:44pm on 28/04/2009
Your back garden makes me very happy. The snow is mostly melted so there may be some green for us around the corner.
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Your back garden makes me very happy.

posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 07:39am on 29/04/2009
I'm very happy my wee patch makes you happy hon. :o) Snow still? Snow this time of year's not unknown here though getting rarer these days. Frost is more our problem, it tends to strike after a warm spell when all the blossom is out, it happened last year and no one got any fruit. I've bought fleece this year, I'm taking no chances. I think we're clear now though, hence my fight to get everything off the window ledges and out where it belongs (at last)

What do you grow up there? I would imagine it's a short season, as is ours. Do you start things off indoors like we have to, or just not bother (which I totally understand (o:)
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posted by [identity profile] aerianya.livejournal.com at 06:35pm on 29/04/2009
We can grow pretty much anything, but plants that take more that 100 days to fruit are usually started indoors or grown in a greenhouse if they can't take the occasional cool night. Our long days and volcanic soil help things along.
We try to have everything hardened off by the last weekend in May so there are outdoors all the time or planted in the ground.
The weather this year is wonderful so far, seems like we really didn't have a summer last year. In the sixties tomorrow and tonight a BBQ for middle daughter birthday. We always hold our breath for this, it has snowed on her birthday before.
I haven't stared a single seedling this year so if I want anything that doesn't come back on it's own, I'll have to make a trip to the nursery.
Such a hardship for me too.*g*
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