drought
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As dry as a bone
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16 days without rain. It doesn’t sound like a long period, but when you calculate in only 60mm of rain since December and no snow this year, you come to the state we’re in right now. The soil is as…
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Tomatoes are still alive
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Although the extreme drought has been really bad for our garden, making it almost impossible to grow any decent vegetables this year, my tomatoes are still alive. There have been few occasions when late blight almost killed all of my…
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Stuck in a never-ending day
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It has been a hot late summer day for the past 20 days. Every single day the morning temperatures have been around 13°C(55°F) and daily temperatures around 33°C(91°F), not a single drop of rain and not a single cloud in…
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Removing the sunshade plants
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Although we’ve had a week of abundant sunshine, due to the low morning temperatures, the temperatures haven’t reached over 30°C (86°F). This is wonderful for the vegetables and garden plants. They aren’t experiencing heat distress anymore. Still, we’re in a…
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Don’t water the beans
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Beans are one of the vegetables that are highly stressed during the summer heat. They like warmth and they are very frost sensitive, but when temperatures are too high, the beans will react with the lack of pods. This year…