tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55551493192506123422024-03-14T13:39:37.430+00:00jardim com gatosgintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.comBlogger571125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-62804107525908199652017-06-07T15:41:00.001+01:002017-06-07T15:41:38.897+01:00O jardim em tons de rosa / Garden in shades of pink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lentamente o jardim vai evoluindo de jardim primaveril, cheio de flores e cor, para jardim de verão, com muito menos flores e mais apoiado nas diferentes cores e formatos das folhas.<br />
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Slowly the spring garden gives way to the summer garden, with much less flowers and color. With time the garden will rely more on texture and leave color then flowers.<br />
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Ainda assim ainda vamos tendo flores com fartura. Rosas, bulbines, salvias, dão o mote com as suas flores abundantes e coloridas enquanto que noutros canteiros flores mais discretas como as das euforbias se misturam com folhagens em diferentes tons de verde e/ou cinzento<br />
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Still, for the time being there are plenty of flowers to see and smell, from roses to salvias and bulbines for example to the more discrete flowers of the euphorbias.<br />
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Finalmente tem caído alguma chuva nos últimos dias. Ainda é manifestamente insuficiente, mas pelo menos as rosas agradecem.<br />
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Some rain in the last few days. Still not enough (its was a dry winter/spring) but the roses are loving it.gintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-43007741658049568282017-05-11T16:49:00.001+01:002017-05-12T23:16:15.264+01:00Tulipas / Tulips<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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É a minha primeira experiência com sementeira de plantas bolbosas. Há aqui perto uma colónia de Tulipa sylvestris subsp australis e eu sempre desejei que crescessem no meu jardim. Arrancá-las estava fora de questão por isso o verão passado colhi algumas sementes. Semeei 5 no inicio da primavera, um pouco a medo porque não seria a altura mais indicada (o outono seria a época mais certa). Durante 2 meses nada aconteceu, mas agora, depois das chuvas, começaram finalmente a germinar. Ainda hei-de ter tulipas destas a crescer no meu jardim!<br />
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This is a seedling of Tulipa sylvestris subsp australis. It is my first attempt at growing bulbs from seed. Over the years I've always loved to see these plants growing in the fields near by and always wished they would grow in my garden. They never did, so last year I collected some seeds. Sowed them in a mix of gravel and compost 2 months ago, they finally started to sprout.gintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-92098871699065198892017-05-02T16:27:00.000+01:002017-05-05T15:21:17.191+01:00Adeus / Goodby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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O Draco morreu ontem durante o sono. Perdi o meu melhor amigo<br />
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Draco passed away yesterday while sleeping. I lost my best friendgintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-67171090813131178142017-04-04T12:16:00.001+01:002017-05-12T23:17:26.555+01:00E assim começa.../And so it starts...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Era um projecto que me andava na cabeça há já algum tempo. "E se expandisses o jardim?" Afinal grande parte do terreno não estava a ser usado para nada e o jardim já se começa a tornar apertado para as plantas que cultivo e quero vir a cultivar. Este ano a ideia ganhou força e a semana passada finalmente me decidi. O jardim ia ser ampliado.</div>
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Its something I've been thinking about for quite some time... "what if I expanded the garden?" There is no point in having all that land and not use it, right? There are too many plants I what to grow and too little space in the "old" garden. Yes, the garden would be expanded.</div>
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Para já a única coisa feita são os primeiros caminhos, que ligam o actual jardim à horta e ao pomar. O novo jardim vai crescer em redor desses caminhos.</div>
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And so I started to build new pathways, the pathways that will be the back bone around which the new garden will grow.</div>
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Quando tudo nos corre bem a vida tem o condão de nos dar a volta e tirar o chão debaixo dos pés.<br />
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Quando o Draco a semana passada e, pela primeira vez na vida, recusou a refeição soube imediatamente que algo grave se passava. Depois de sucessivas análises e exames foi-lhe diagnosticada cardiomiopatia dilatada. É uma doença cardíaca relativamente frequente nesta raça e, embora eu soubesse disso, não estava de todo preparado para que, aos 7 anos de idade, o meu cão a desenvolvesse.<br />
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When things seem to be ok, life has this way of unexpectedly turning upside down.<br />
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When Draco skiped a meal last week, I imediatly knew something was very, very wrong. Turns out this beautifull, young and apparentely wealthy dog has dilated cardiomiopathy. This is a rather common disease in this particular breed, but I never expected him to become sick at only 7 years old. Anyway, no mater what, you are never prepared for a news like this...<br />
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O Draco sempre foi um cão saudável, alegre e cheio de energia. É o meu cão, o meu amigo, parte da minha família, e era suposto ainda por cá andar mais uns anos. Em vez disso tem um prognóstico muito reservado e uma esperança média de vida de 6 meses (até 6 meses).<br />
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This beautiful, gentle giant dog is not only my friend, he is part of my family, of my live. I always expected him to live, at least, until 10. Instead his life expectancy is, at the most, 6 months.<br />
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Já está medicado e o comportamento e energia estão muito melhor. O apetite, esse, continua caprichoso e tem perdido peso visivelmente. Os dias são passados a pensar em como o estimular a comer, que nova receita ou ingrediente utilizar para o convencer a comer. Para já frango com batata doce parecem estar a resultar mas todas as refeições são uma incógnita, uns dias come bem, outros quase nada.<br />
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He is now under medication and seems better. He is more active and livelly, but the apetite is not back yet and he has lost some weight. I spend the days lately thinking about how to convince him to eat, what diet or ingredient will be the one that convinces him to eat. For now I managed to convince him with a mix of chicken and sweet potato, but the apetite is still not good. He will eat very well on one day and almost nothing the next.<br />
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Amanhã é dia de nova ecocardiografia, onde iremos ver a evolução e resposta à medicação. A esperança é pouca, mas é a ultima a morrer. O objectivo, para já, é mantê-lo com qualidade de vida o máximo de tempo possível. Um dia de cada vez...<br />
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We will know tomorrow exactly how he is responding to treatment, has we are having another echocardiogram. For now the goal is to keep him as comfortable as possible. One day at a time...<br />
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Com os dias maiores e mais amenos, cada vez sabe melhor estar no jardim e jardinar. Aos poucos o jardim vai-se enchendo de flores. Hoje publico apenas algumas fotos do jardim, sem muita conversa. As fotos valem por si.<br />
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With the warmer, longer days I spend more and more time in the gardening. Bit by bit all the plants start to bloom making it an even biger pleasure. Just a few photos of the garden today, not much else to say.<br />
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Chegou aquela altura do ano, a altura em que temos de fazer limpezas no jardim. É impressionante a quantidade de ervas que crescem todos os anos no jardim. São principalmente oxalis, que cobrem e abafam as plantas mais pequenas do jardim. Depois de limpo de ervas o jardim parece outra coisa. Os caminhos ainda precisam de ser limpos, mas as plantas e flores nos canteiros já se vêm.<br />
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It's that time of the year. The time when we need to weed and prune. It's just amazing the amount of weeds that have grown inthe past weeks following the rain. Most of them are oxalis, one of my pet hates, they grow over everything and smother all the smallest plants. The garden looks a lot better after all the weeds have been removed. Still need to weed the pathways though.<br />
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Algumas plantas precisam também de podas de rejuvenescimento ou controlo de tamanho. Normalmente costumo fazê-las mais cedo, mas este ano só agora consegui tempo para isso<br />
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Salvia leucantha was in desperate need of a good pruning. The plants were overgrown and full of woody old branches. I usually prune them sooner than this, in October/November but this year I didn't have the time or will to do it.<br />
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Uma das plantas que precisa de podas para controlar a sua dimensão e rejuvenescer é a Salvia leucantha. Grande demais já começava a abafar as plantas ao seu lado. Além disso as astes velhas, lenhosas, não produzem flores tão abundantemente.<br />
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Most of the flowers were lost, its true, but the plants will soon recover and star flowering.<br />
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Todas estas ervas arrancadas e ramos resultantes de podas não se perdem. Vão directamente para o galinheiro onde fazem as delicias das "miúdas". Grande parte das ervas será consumida pelas galinhas e tudo o resto será transformado em composto que posteriormente será usado na horta e jardim.<br />
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All the weeds and prunings end up in the chicken pen. The girls will eat most of it and what isn't eaten by the chickens will be transformed into rich compost that I will use in the garden and vegetable garden.<br />
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Os crocus plantados no Outono passado começam, agora, a florir. Sinceramente quando os plantei pensei que não iam dar nada, por não ter aqui os invernos frios que normalmente precisam para florir.<br />
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Last autumn I decided to try something I had never tried before. To plant crocus. I never really thouhgh they would grow and bloom, since we don't have here in the Algarve such low temperatures as the ones they usualy grow in.<br />
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No entanto das três variedades que plantei, duas estão a crescer e a florir bem, Faltam os de flor amarela (a minha esperança era tão pouca que nem me dei ao trabalho de fixar os nomes das variedades)<br />
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Nonetheless, out of the three varieties I planted two seem to be doing great and started to bloom this week. No sign of the yellow ones though (my disbelief in them was so much I never even bother to write down the names of the varieties)<br />
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Foram plantados junto a tomilhos, oregãos e outras plantas rasteiras e o objectivo final seria que se naturalizassem, propagassem e se espalhassem por todo o canteiro. Veremos se isso acontece...<br />
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I planted them among thymes, oreganos and other low and creeping plants, the final goal being that they would naturalize and spread themselves into the entire bed. The future will tell if that will happen...<br />
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Caso sejam flores de um ano só, já valeram a pena pela beleza das flores tão pequenas, tão delicadas e tão perfeitas.<br />
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Nothing much to do in the garden on a rainy sunday than looking at the plants growing inside the green house. Here are a few pictures of some of the plants in my succulent plants collection.</div>
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I've never been much of a rose person. I mean, sure they are nice flowers, they smell nice but as a garden plant I never realy cared for them. Always thought them to be fussy plants, that needed lots of water and maintenace and in the end didn't look good.<br />
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Era esta a minha opinião acerca das rosas até ter descoberto esta roseira a crescer num terreno abandonado. A planta era um arbusto vigoroso, coberto de rosas tipo antigo, as minhas preferidas, que crescia sem nenhuma rega nem cuidados. Resolvi trazer umas estacas e tentar ver se enraizavam. Apenas uma enraizou e já cresce no jardim. A planta ainda é pequena, mas já está coberta de rosas desde Dezembro.<br />
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And then I found this rose growing in an abandoned land. It was a nice rose bush full of beautifull old english type flowers. If it grew that well with absolutely no care, then it couldn't be that fussy. That is why I decided to bring a few cuttings home. Out of them all only one took roots and grew. It's planted in the garden and in about a year it is already a small bush full of beautiful fragrant roses.<br />
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É surpreendentemente resistente à falta de água (sempre achei que as roseiras necessitavam de muita rega), tendo passado todo o verão apenas com 2 regas semanais. As rosas são de tamanho médio, bastante perfumadas e. ao contrario do que eu pensava, ficam bem enquadradas por todas as outras plantas mediterranicas que crescem no jardim. Depois desta experiência fiquei tentado a experimentar outras rosas do mesmo tipo, mas essa conversa fica para outro dia.<br />
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It's really drought tolerant, and in summer it was only watered twice a week. It still managed to bloom and surprisingly enough it does look good in the garden amongst the more "mediterranean" drought tolerant plants. After such a good experience I decided to give roses another try, but I'll write about that other time.<br />
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Nos últimos dias tenho só ouvido falar dos estragos feitos pela geada por esses jardins fora. Mesmo no Algarve houve zonas muito afectadas.<br />
Felizmente aqui nunca vi geada e por isso os estragos são praticamente inexistentes. Não consigo sequer imaginar a tristeza de ver todo o jardim queimado pelo frio como aconteceu com alguns amigos meus. Em todo o jardim apenas algumas pontas do boldo de jardim (Plectranthus barbatus) foram afectadas pelo frio.<br />
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Infelizmente a oferta de plantas de jardim no nosso país é, ainda, bastante limitada. Isto ocorre, na minha opinião, não só por culpa de quem vende mas também por culpa de quem compra. Precisamos de mais jardineiros informados, mais exigentes que procurem plantas diferentes, mais interessantes e em muitos casos mais adequadas às nossas condições. De cada vez que visito um horto raro é que não venha de lá de mãos a abanar e decepcionado.<br />
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If you go to a garden center in Portugal, or at least here in the Algarve, you will notest that the choice of plants isn't that great and that almost every garden center pretty much sells the same type of plants. On top of that many of those plants are not the most suitable for our climate. I almost stoped going to garden centres because its so rare to find something different and suitable for my "dry garden"<br />
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Felizmente, aqui no Algarve, vou conseguindo algumas coisas fora do comum, quer seja na Feira de plantas mediterrânicas, que se realiza duas vezes ao ano, quer seja em alguns pequenos hortos que descobri nessa mesma feira.<br />
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Muita coisa aconteceu nestes últimos anos e o jardim também evoluiu. Abandonei a gravilha, com alguma pena, e substitui-a por lajes. A gravilha conferia o visual que eu pretendia mas obrigava a uma grande manutenção para se manter em condições.<br />
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A lot has happened in the garden in these past few years. The gravel path, though very beautifull, was too very high maintenance for my taste so I decided to replace it with cement slabs.<br />
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Os caminhos em laje de betão, assente em areia, precisam de muito menos manutenção (arrancar ervas que nascem nas juntas e pouco mais), e pela sua simplicidade não chocam com o resto do jardim , nem nos distraem do mais importante, as plantas<br />
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The cement slabs are very low maintenace (specialy if compared to the gravel) and all I need to do is to pull some weeds every now and than from the slab joints.<br />
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O esquema de plantação manteve-se mais ou menos o mesmo, sempre com preferência por espécies resistentes à seca, por forma a ter de regar o mínimo de vezes durante o verão.<br />
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The planting of the garden remained more or less the same. I only use plants that I know (or think) to be drought resistant. The aim is to have a nice looking garden that needs minimum water and minimum work.<br />
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Passaram 4 anos desde a ultima publicação neste blog. Entretanto andei por outros sítios, conheci<br />
outras gentes, desenvolvi outros projectos. Pouca coisa me satisfez como este blog e assim depois destes anos todos e depois de muito pensar no assunto resolvi reactivar o "Jardim com gatos". Espero que pelo menos alguns dos antigos leitores ainda por aí andem.<br />
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It's been 4 years since I last published in the blog. During this time, and while engaged in other plant related projects I always kept remembering the blog and all the pleasure I took from it. So after some consideration I decided to start again. Hope that a few of you will still go on reading it.</div>
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gintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-10046454784080481942012-12-04T12:32:00.001+00:002017-01-20T16:52:10.660+00:00Novidades / New things<br />
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Este ano temos algumas novidades na horta. Uma delas é o novo mulching que tenho feito. Em vez de palha passei a usar ramos e troncos triturados que normalmente iriam para o compostor. Assim, não só servem de cobertura ao solo, evitando a erosão e mantendo a humidade, como com o tempo se vão deteriorando e transformando em composto, poupando o trabalho de o trazer do compostor.<br />
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There are some new things in the vegetable garden this year. The first one is the new tipe of mulching we are using. Instead of straw I've started using wood chips made from wood cuttings and branches we collect from our trees and shrubs. They seem to preserve soil moisture a lot better than straw and with time will slowly decompose and feed the soil and plants. This way the composting process is not as fast but by doing it <i>in situ</i> saves me time and effort. <br />
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A outra novidade, é o pequeno charco que fiz aproveitando uma velha banheira. A ideia é ter um ponto de água onde as aves possam beber, mas também, e principalmente, atrair anfíbios para a horta. Talvez assim a população de caracóis comece finalmente a decrescer. A construção é muito recente e ainda não está terminada, ainda quero tentar esconder o rebordo da banheira com pedras e tornar a coisa mais bonita. Na primavera, já com as plantas aquáticas crescidas, espero começar a receber visita de sapos e rãs.<br />
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The other new thing is the pond I built from an old bath tub. By bringing a pond into the vegetable garden I intend to atract toads, frogs and other amphibians that will feed on snails, slugs and insects that feed on my veggies.<br />
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Ainda com a intenção de atrair animais benéficos, empilhei todos os troncos q havia pelo terreno formando uma pilha de madeira em decomposição, que se funcionar como eu pretendo servirá de abrigo para ouriços, cobras, lagartos, e insectos benéficos para a horta.<br />
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We had lots of big logs and branches laying around, so I piled them all in a big pile hoping to atract lizards, snakes and hedgehogs. They will have a good place to spend the winter months now.<br />
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Comecei também, finalmente a plantar o pomar. o espaço da horta não podia levar mais árvores, sob pena de se tornar demasiado sombrio, e esta porção grande de terreno estava ao abandono. Comecei então por plantar, pessegueiros, ameixoeiras e damasqueiros. Mais tarde quero plantar alguns citrinos e algumas frutas tropicais.<br />
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Finally, I started planting the orchard. For now just a few peaches, plums and apricots, but I plan to plant a few citrus trees and a few tropical trees that grow well around here like mango, papaya, and cherimoya.gintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-20222288286678181252012-11-29T13:23:00.000+00:002012-11-29T13:23:16.931+00:00Visitas / Visitors<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13696968@N08/8228866845/" title="DSC_0010-007 by gintoino, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0010-007" height="464" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8060/8228866845_419ccde555.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Encontrei este curioso individuo numa das cebolas que ficaram na horta desde o ano passado. Não faço ideia do que seja, ainda não o consegui identificar, se alguém por aí o conhecer agradece-se a identificação.
Found this funny little guy resting on an onion leave the other day. I couldn't identify him yet so if any of you knows its name I would be very pleased to read it in a comment.gintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-42795678403842684632012-10-30T15:29:00.001+00:002012-10-30T15:29:43.006+00:00Experiencias /Experiments<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13696968@N08/8059250323/" title="DSC_0051-001 by gintoino, on Flickr"><img alt="DSC_0051-001" height="500" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8449/8059250323_562b650d42.jpg" width="332" /></a><br />
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Por esquecimento ou preguiça deixei ficar alguns dos Romanesco durante o verão. Agora estão enormes, muito maiores que os que semeei o mês passado. Não sei se darão uma colheita maior ou mais precoce que os outros (ou pior em todos os aspectos). Vamos esperar para ver...<br />
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These are a few of the Romanescos I was to lazy to pull. They have been growing all summer and are huge now (especialy when compared with the ones I planted last month): I have no idea if they will yeld a bigger better crop than the recently planted, or if on the contrary they will be a lot worse. We shall wait and see...gintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555149319250612342.post-78482412777500337402012-10-22T09:32:00.000+01:002012-10-22T09:32:12.261+01:00Visitas/Visitors<br />
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Provavelmente a visita mais gira que já tivemos. Um camaleão bebé, minúsculo (do tamanho do meu polegar) escondido no meio das couves. Encontrei-o por acaso enquanto andava a caçar caracóis. Agrada-me pensar que deve ter nascido na horta ou muito perto uma vez que cá encontrei vários adultos durante o verão. <br />
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The cutest visitor ever! A tiny baby chameleon (the size of my thumb) hiding in the cabbage patch.<br />
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Este é o plano para a horta para este Outono/Inverno. Falta semear as favas e as ervilhas, tudo o resto já foi semeado (embora muita coisa ainda esteja à espera de ser transplantada). Ficam ainda duas camas por preencher, para aquelas coisas que só nos lembramos mais tarde.<br />
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This is how the vegetable garden will be planted this season. Most of the things are already growing (though some are still waiting to be transplanted), but I still have to sow the peas and most of the broad beans.gintoinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17909773860893386823noreply@blogger.com11