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  • Garden diary: late summer sowing

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    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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…