Garden diary

  • Anti-hail netting is up

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    After years of worrying if we’ll get a destructive storm or not, this year we finally said that it was enough and ordered anti-hail netting. It took a while to get it. Probably due to a lot of storms around…

  • Tuesday is harvest day

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    Lately, I’ve converted my Tuesday morning into a harvest morning. I don’t know why but Tuesday is a day when I usually harvest my veggies. Mondays are just too busy, I usually dig both the main and side garden, clean…

  • Another excellent harvest and more storms – the main garden weekly review

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    The weeks in June are all the same. Extreme warmth followed by a couple of storms and then more extreme heat. After a very rainy past week, this week we didn’t get any rain at all. The storms have passed…

  • Mama bear has had enough

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    This has been a really difficult year for the seedlings and potted vegetables. The beginning of the spring was very cold, which didn’t allow our seedlings to grow as they should. After the cold, came unusually warm months, and we’ve…

  • Tomatoes are out of control

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    For most of the past week, I was away from the garden. The weather changed abruptly, and after a few warm weeks, we again had an episode of cold, rainy, and windy days. Of course, as soon as we get…