summer
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Garden diary 01.-31.07: July from a nightmare
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July has been a month from hell; honestly, I couldn’t wait for it to end. Unlike last year, when we spent most of the time watering the plants and cooling down during the evenings, this year summer is almost non-existent….
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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…
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Dealing with cracks in the soil
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Most garden plants like to grow in rich soil full of organic materials. That’s why we gardeners buy sowing compost and start our seeds in almost perfect conditions. We transplant our plants into our clay-rich gardens pamper the plants and…
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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…