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Member since: Jun 08 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 15 | Organic gardener
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15 Nov 2011Geranium border garden and Herfstanemoon, Japanse anemoon | Japanese Anemone | Anemone x hybrida "Königin ...
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Cloudy 8°C / 46°FEach time I looked through my window and into the small border in front of our house, it irritated me. Somehow, a used cotton ball got stuck on top of a fragile stem of a Japanese anemone that had wilted… But it was only today, that I realized that 1) a cotton ball is way to heavy to be th...
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09 Nov 2011
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Wildlife-friendly Pesticides? - III
Cloudy 12°C / 54°F
Ferro-phosphate
And after two insecticides with a broad-spectrum action, I’m going to talk today about the products that claim to be safe because of their selectivity.
The only exemple I know so far is Ferro-fosphate, sold as Escar-go, Sluggo, Ferramol…
Neudorff, manufacturer of Ferramol/Escar-go...
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08 Nov 2011
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Wildlife-friendly Pesticides? - II
All around my House... gardenCloudy 15°C / 59°F
Neem-oil
The story about Neem-oil isn’t as negative as what I told about pyrethrins on Monday.
The Neem-tree, Azadirachta indica, is an evergreen tree, native in Asia. In India the oil is been used medicinally for centuries, and the interest in Western countries has been growing continuously in t...
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06 Nov 2011All around my House... garden
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Cloudy 12°C / 54°F
I got the idea for the poll I told about yesterday while reading a chapter titled “Does organic means wildlife-friendly’ in the book ‘Collins Wildlife Gardener‘ by Stefan Buczacki.
The author mentions that many ‘natural’ pesticides are completely unselective, and that for many so-called ‘safe’ pe...
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06 Nov 2011All around my House... garden
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Saturday, the temperatures still were just below 20° C, temperatures you should expect one month earlier. And yesterday was a fine day too. But today (first day after a really beautiful week of school vacation), it was a dull and gloomy November day. But the temperature was still reasonable, al...Cloudy 12°C / 54°F -
05 Nov 2011
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I just posted a poll on my blog, as a startpoint for a series of articles on wildlife-gardening in the next weeks. The question I asked is: Does Wildlife belong in your Garden? And this are the answers: - My garden is Mine, and everyone else is an intruder. Of course I will spray at the slightest...Cloudy 15°C / 59°F -
31 Oct 2011Herfstkrokus | Autumn crocus | Crocus speciosus and Flower meadow garden
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Sunny 17°C / 63°FThe Fall crocusses are wilting now. There were about 50 flowers this year, about as much as last year. But I definitely have the impression they are spreading. A Marmalade Hoverfly visiting today…
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30 Oct 2011Wildlife in my garden
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Sunny 17°C / 63°F
There is WiFi in my garden, but the birds clearly don’t use it.
Otherwise they would have known that the ‘vogelbescherming‘ (something like the RSPB in the UK) had declared Octobre 31st to be the starting date of birdfeeding .
By starting the feeding of birds before it is really cold, those littl...
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30 Oct 2011
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There is a surprise-seedswap among garden bloggers here in Belgium next month, and to have a bit of a stash to send out, I ordered some seeds from Vreeken Seeds yesterday. Yardlong bean (Kousenband), Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis Runner bean ‘Painted lady’ Green bean ‘Bor...Sunny 17°C / 63°F -
29 Oct 2011Apple 'goudreinette' and Under the Appletree garden
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Cloudy 16°C / 61°F
When we bougth our house 16 years ago, the appletree in the backyard was already old, very old. In the first years we haven’t harvested a single apple, but he seemed rather pleased with our company, and in the years that followed he recovered somewhat.
But it still was an old tree, and sev...
