drought
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Harvest before the rain
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After the longest heatwave this year that lasted for 10 days, we should be getting some colder air and rain tomorrow. Since the temperatures have been really high, reaching over 38°C (100.4°F), there’s a big chance of a storm, thunderstorm,…
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Post rain cleaning part 2- more tomato blight
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We’re back to our normal rain dodging. For the past 3 days, there have been showers all around us and we didn’t get a single drop. Since we’re surrounded by 4 mountains, all the rain ends up on the mountains,…
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Garden review: July
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We haven’t even properly started this gardening season, and we’re already in the second half of the season. Plants are already in full harvest, temperatures are at their peak, and before we’ll realize we’ll be cleaning the garden and getting…
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When there’s no rain there’s always the barrel
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Summer has been very dry. We haven’t had any slow-falling rain in the past two months. Officially we got 80mm of rain this month. It came in two heavy showers, and most of it was drained away, so it’s a…
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August in my garden-what can I do?
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August is the month in which we finish with most of our transplanting and sowing jobs and concentrate on keeping our plants healthy. Since August in the Northern hemisphere is the hottest month of the year the biggest job we…