Garden diary

  • Orchard surprise- first harvest

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    rollinggarden

    After a long rain period, on Friday, I finally got some dry weather to visit my garden. I thought I’d do some weeding because the garden is covered in weeds, but, instead, I ended up having my first big harvest. …

  • Monthly review: May

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    rollinggarden

    After a very long dry period, May brought us much-needed rain.  A total of 121mm fell over a period of 31 days. Much of the rain fell during the stormy showers so they didn’t really soak the soil. The water…

  • Finally a long expected rain period

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    rollinggarden

    The beginning of May finally brought us the rain we were hoping for the past 4 months. The amount wasn’t too huge, around 40mm, but it has been raining for 6 days out of 15 so the soil got wet…

  • Growing garden

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    rollinggarden

    Although the lack of rain this month has been terrible my garden did benefit from the few waterings we did over the weeks and everything I’ve sown has germinated and is growing nicely.Garlic and carrots are on the sunniest part…

  • Monthly review

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    rollinggarden

    April has continued the trend of the first 3 months. Lots of sunny weather with a few very cold days and very small amounts of rain. The month started with a period of 9 days with the full sun without…