Garden diary

  • A cold week in July

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    rollinggarden

    May and June have been unusually warm. Temperatures have been over 30°C/86°F most of the days, and the rainfall, which was slim, wasn’t enough to keep the garden growing well. I was getting ready for a bad gardening year with…

  • Anti-hail netting is up

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    rollinggarden

    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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    rollinggarden

    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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    rollinggarden

    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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    rollinggarden

    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…