The garden summary 2026

Vegetable Garden 2026

I am officially naming 2026 as the year of the Coriander Forest.

In the past, I have tried, with minimal success, to grow coriander. I’ve gotten a couple of measly plants, which generally grew and went to seed before I could even use them. Well, not this year. Because this year, we got a coriander forest.

When the first tiny plants sprang up, I was confused. It looked like coriander… but how? So when it got a little bigger I had a taste and realised… it was coriander. So… I nurtured them. Because I love coriander, so I want as much as humanly possible.

And that’s what I got… a whole damn forest.

To the detriment of the other plants, in the end.

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The Garden Summary 2024

vegetable garden 2024

I have to say, the season started off promising. I felt good. I felt ready. I planted like crazy. And then it rained… and rained… and rained… And I guess a lot of the seeds rotted or washed away. Or got eaten by bugs.

But eventually they sprouted. And then it got hot. And hotter. And hotter. So hot in fact that at one point I even had to admit that it was hot.

So… it was a bit of a struggle. But I struggled on.

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