Garden weekly review
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Garden Diary week 18: Rain and rain again
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What’s the same in March, April, and May? The unusual amount of rain we’ve been getting. We already got 520mm of rain this year. This is 2/3 of our yearly rain amount. We can barely get 2 dry days for any decent garden work, and most of the time I’m just rushing to do what…
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Garden Diary week 16 – side garden week
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We haven’t had such a rainy spring in a very long time. The rain has now become a regular event every Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures are a bit higher now, but still a bit lower than usual. The rain woke up nature and there’s grass, flowers, and plants everywhere. A lot of rain The past…
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Garden diary week 12-15: weather changes and first transplanting
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The past couple of weeks have been busy. The weather hasn’t been helpful, so we’ve been fighting it most of the time. We get a couple of warmer days, and as soon as plants start growing again, we get a rush of cold air. During Easter week, we actually had another frost period. Temperatures dropped…
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Garden diary week 11: a week of warmth and growth
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This week we finally thought that we entered the mild spring period. This proved wrong at the end of the week, but at least for a couple of days we enjoyed the warmth and managed to do a lot of garden and house tasks. Warm beginning of the week Tuesday and Wednesday brought us our…
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Garden diary week 10: lots of work
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Finally, we got some milder weather. Morning temperatures are still quite low, but daily temperatures are finally high enough to start some actual gardening. Although we had a couple of rainy days, the amount we got is still too low, so I actually started watering the side garden this week. But, all things considered, the…