gardening

  • 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,…

  • My Cosmos jungle

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    One of the favorite self-seeding flowers in my garden are certainly Cosmoses. It’s been over six years now that they are every year in my garden. First started as a sown plant and now they grow freely wherever they want.Over…

  • Starting from the beginning

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     On July 31st I’ve finished cleaning the whole garden and today, 14 days later the whole garden is a complete mess. This is not a normal thing here. Usually, I finish the cleaning in July, and in August I don’t…

  • Strangers between grapes

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    My garden has always been a clean messy jungle. I’m not a neat freak, I don’t pay attention to keeping every leaf and flower in order or have a designated area for every plant. I remove the weeds, but when…

  • Monthly review: July

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    After a very cold beginning of the month, the end brought us the heat we’ve been missing and turned this month into an average month with above-average rainfall.  But let’s start from the beginning. June has made us heat hungry…