garden
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A cold week in July
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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…
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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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Anti-hail netting is up
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After years of worrying if we’ll get a destructive storm or not, this year we finally said that it was enough and ordered anti-hail netting. It took a while to get it. Probably due to a lot of storms around…
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Tuesday is harvest day
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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…
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Another violent storm – Main garden review 30.05- 05.06
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This was supposed to be a post on how good the garden is looking at the beginning of June. On Thursday I was in the garden cleaning the beds and when I finished I looked up the hill and thought…