tomato
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Tomatoes are still alive
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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…
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Battle for tomatoes continues
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As soon as we got some colder weather, the tomato diseases activated again. The blight is now spreading even faster than before, and it will be hard to stop. The rain brought us first fogs, and they are usually death…
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Pickling season: Sort of Provansal vegetables
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Every pickling season I try to find some new recipe to test and try out. Usually, I look in my old cookbooks or on our local recipe sharing online community and usually find a nice recipe that I like, and…
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Harvest before the rain
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After the longest heatwave this year that lasted for 10 days, we should be getting some colder air and rain tomorrow. Since the temperatures have been really high, reaching over 38°C (100.4°F), there’s a big chance of a storm, thunderstorm,…
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Post rain cleaning and blight eruption
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Finally, we got some rain. Although it was only 10mm, it’s still good to have some rain for the plants, so today as I always do after the rain, I went to clean up the garden. The plan was to…