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Saving the tomatoes from the first frost
Summer’s definitely over now! Well, it’s been autumn for a few weeks already, but now it’s getting serious. Last night we had the first frost. This morning, everything was covered in white. And not just the ground either, but all the trees and shrubs too. Our greenhouse was totally covered in frost as well. I
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Building Hügelkultur raised beds
One of the first projects on the new land was to build hugelkultur raised garden beds, à la Sepp Holzer. Hügelbeet is German (generally spelled hugel-bed in English) and means hill-shaped garden bed, but specifically, it has come to mean wood-filled hill-shaped raised bed. Sepp Holzer has used these on a large scale in order to
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