Garden diary

  • Garden Diary: Still dealing with drought

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    Gardening has been really hard this summer. Continuous heat and watering could be the entire description of the past couple of months. Still, we’re making slow progress and have good veggie success. Continuous drought The past week has been as…

  • Garden diary: late summer sowing

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    rollinggarden

    Although August is considered a harvest month, in which we harvest the fruits of our spring and summer work, there is still plenty of time to sow new vegetables and prolong our gardening season. In previous years at this time,…

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    Garden Diary: July side garden progress

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    rollinggarden

    This year we started a new side vegetable garden. After demolishing the old sheds, the space was filled with new beds, vegetable spaces, and a small garden. The garden is making nice progress every month, and this year we’re learning…

  • Garden diary: A slow hot week

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    rollinggarden

    The past few days, I took a small rest from the everyday garden madness. I still harvested my veggies and watered the garden, but that’s pretty much everything I did. I needed a little break to recuperate my shoulder. Ever…

  • 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…