SUMMER = Annuals & Tender Babes are in, Rain Dance was answered
Appreciating the big picture and ignoring the weeds for now... For us vegetarians, the veggie garden is especially heavy on legumes this...
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nikianearthscapes
May 91 min read
SPRING = Garden unfurling, seed sowing and another Atlantic Rare & Unusual Plant Sale - 2024 and we're busy!
...So busy that I didn't get this blog published last week (time out to plant peas!). Our growing season is so short that plants race...
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nikianearthscapes
Feb 272 min read
Rice growing 101: Harvest Field Day rescheduled twice for rain...
...just too wet to plan on anything more that two days ahead. Finally we just harvested when we could and made a series of videos for...
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nikianearthscapes
Sep 23, 20232 min read
Rice Growing 101: Harvest Field Day Scheduled
OK. We're coming down the home stretch and drying down the rice paddies (draining out the water that has kept the paddies flooded). ...
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nikianearthscapes
Sep 19, 20233 min read
Rice Growing 101: Preparing for Harvest
Watching the rice varieties develop, the colour changes are always amazing as the plant stems "head up" with grainy bloom and then hang...
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nikianearthscapes
Jul 19, 20233 min read
Rice Growing 101: Feeding and trouble-shooting
As soon as the new rice transplants settle into the mud, they begin "tillering" - that is growing new stems just like the clump grass it...
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nikianearthscapes
Jul 3, 20231 min read
Rice Growing 101: The Zen Part
Two weeks after planting and with nearly continuous rain, while our gardens are dripping and pouting, the rice loves it! Echoes of the...
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nikianearthscapes
Jun 19, 20232 min read
Rice Growing 101: Planting the paddies
Transplanting the rice seedlings becomes an exercise in teamwork and balance, awareness of the environment (gridlines and a giant...
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nikianearthscapes
Jun 11, 20233 min read
Rice Growing 101: Ready to transplant
The recent rain has helped to hydrate the paddy... but we have added a little water from the pond. Because we don't have water buffalo...
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nikianearthscapes
May 25, 20232 min read
Rice Growing 101: Almost ready to transplant into paddies
The rice seedlings have been growing steadily in their confined tanks. They are getting more hungry for real soil nutrients and...
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nikianearthscapes
May 21, 20231 min read
Time Out for the Rare & Unusual Plant Sale!
Off to the sale on a windy, rainy day - plants don't mind the weather! Every corner full of plants. And lined up to transport. For your...
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nikianearthscapes
Apr 21, 20232 min read
Rice Growing 101: Green is Good!
The germinated seeds are sown and sitting in warm water, in tanks covered with insullation board at night. Every morning, we uncover the...
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nikianearthscapes
Apr 10, 20231 min read
RICE GROWING 101: Sowing Germinated Seed
Seven to ten days after beginning to soak and drain, soak and drain the rice seed, the radical (main root) can be seen emerging like a...
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nikianearthscapes
Apr 1, 20233 min read
RICE GROWING 101: Starting Rice Seed
The rice paddies don't look very promising this time of year, but spring happens fast here. Stubble remains from our harvest in October...
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nikianearthscapes
Apr 27, 20223 min read
The Thrill & Optimism of Spring!
Hellebores ho! And they will bloom for months. Lots of surprises await a wanderer through the forests and gardens in spring... Despite...
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nikianearthscapes
Mar 22, 20222 min read
From Hibernation to Propagation
What a winter!!! Trees laced with winter's freezing rain were brilliant in the sun of the next day, but the silence was punctuated by...
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nikianearthscapes
Oct 21, 20211 min read
Pause to Enjoy Autumn Beauty
While strolling through the gardens and orchards, checking on the harvest readiness of seeds, fruits and nuts, I began to appreciate the...
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nikianearthscapes
Oct 12, 20211 min read
A Harvest of Diversity
Autumn means many different things, but to us it's NUTS! Specifically, hazel nuts from our orchards, and peanuts from our fields. But...
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nikianearthscapes
Oct 7, 20211 min read
Our Rice Crop is In!
Rice is a beautiful plant and wonderful to work with at all stages. From tiny seedlings in the greenhouse... ...to transplants in the...
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nikianearthscapes
Sep 30, 20212 min read
Seed Saving at NIKIAN Gardens
Sorghum bicolor 'Ba-Ye-Qi' At NIKIAN Gardens, seed collecting signals the end of one plant cycle and the beginning of another. We think...
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