summer
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Harvests have started
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Unusually warm winter, very dry spring, and rainy beginning of summer did a number on the garden. Plants are much smaller than they should be at this time of the year, especially seedling plants which have been practically dormant all…
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Strawberry surprise
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Last year I decided to renew my strawberry bed. I bought some strawberry seeds hoping I’d manage to grow some fruits from the seeds and to my surprise all of the seeds germinated really quickly. The strawberries I bought were…
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Poor pea season is over
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July is the month in which we get our first harvests. Usually one of the first vegetables that give us significant harvests are peas. By the middle of June, pods start forming and the first harvests begin in the last…
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Monthly review: May
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After a very long dry period, May brought us much-needed rain. A total of 121mm fell over a period of 31 days. Much of the rain fell during the stormy showers so they didn’t really soak the soil. The water…
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Help your garden during the heat
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As everybody already knows it’s really really hot here. We have hot summers every year but this year heat is unbearable. Temperatures are over 35°C every day and morning temperatures are over 22°C. At these temperatures, all plants in the…