March is the month of change when we transition from winter into spring. Slowly the winter vegetables are coming to an end, while first new vegetables are already starting to grow and we have plenty of work to do to get the garden ready for the new season. Fresh from the garden In the garden […]
Spring awakening
In March, the garden finally awakens and in many places more spring flowers appear such as grape hyacinths (Muscari) and crocuses. New this year is the pretty pure white wild crocus ‘Miss Vain’ (Crocus biflorus), also called Persian crocus or Scottish crocus.
The garden in February
While the temperatures were fairly mild in February, it was not very pleasant to be outside for most of the days, so we did not do a lot in the garden except for cutting foliage of grasses, pruning berry bushes and preparing the vegetable garden plots for legumes and onions. At the end of February […]