my garden diary

  • Racing with time

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    rollinggarden

    In my forest surrounded garden season is fairly short. As soon as September comes to an end, and the sun starts shining below the trees, my garden is left without the sunshine. Right now the whole garden gets maybe 2…

  • The digging “fun”

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    rollinggarden

    This week after 20 days we finally got some decent rain. The rain fell on two separate days and was falling for 12 hours each time, so the garden finally got some much-needed moisture. The north winds that followed the…

  • Tomatoes are still alive

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    rollinggarden

    Although the extreme drought has been really bad for our garden, making it almost impossible to grow any decent vegetables this year, my tomatoes are still alive. There have been few occasions when late blight almost killed all of my…

  • Stuck in a never-ending day

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    rollinggarden

    It has been a hot late summer day for the past 20 days. Every single day the morning temperatures have been around 13°C(55°F) and daily temperatures around 33°C(91°F), not a single drop of rain and not a single cloud in…

  • Don’t water the beans

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    rollinggarden

     Beans are one of the vegetables that are highly stressed during the summer heat. They like warmth and they are very frost sensitive, but when temperatures are too high, the beans will react with the lack of pods. This year…