{"id":1478,"date":"2020-02-11T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2020-06-28T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:04:35","slug":"garden-diary-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/2020\/02\/garden-diary-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Update – Winter 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

<- Previous (2019)<\/a> – Spring 2020 -><\/a><\/p>\r\n

I am trying out a new format for the garden updates. Trying out a new format this year, to make it more interesting to write, and hopefully also more entertaining to read.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This is a strange winter. To anyone concerned about climate change (and anyone should be) it must look like confirmation that something is horribly wrong. And confirmation it may be, but I will leave it for meteorologists to make the conclusions. At least it looks like we are finally getting over the rain deficit from summer 2018. I am sorry for everyone who is suddenly threatened by flooding, but also personally happy that my house is on the top of a hill and has no basement (so while I have no extra storage space for stuff I don’t want to look at but might someday need, i not only do not have a lot of old crap lying around – I also avoid a flooded house).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In the garden I am behind with the key tasks of pruning the apple trees – mostly due to a sprained ankle which has troubled me since early January and bad weather. The ankle is better now though, so hopefully the weather will be OK in the coming weekends.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So far I have pulled my self together and ordered fresh seeds from Simpson’s Seeds and this year the experimental focus will be on cucumbers. I also intend to put squash in the elevated bed.<\/p>\r\n

Key events in the garden (2020)<\/h3>\r\n