my garden diary

  • Tomatoes have never looked worse

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    rollinggarden

    This year has been a real disaster for tomatoes. First, as I wrote before my tomatoes were struck by Pythium rot caused by infected soil, then the May cold did a number on the seedlings and their height and the…

  • Wednesday harvest

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    rollinggarden

    I haven’t harvested anything since last Friday so today was a good day to harvest. I had a helping paw with me today. We harvested beans, chard, kale, tomatoes, cucumbers, kohlrabi, and carrots. And then we went to the orchard…

  • My Cosmos jungle

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    rollinggarden

    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…

  • First summer hailstorm

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    rollinggarden

     Yesterday after a week of sun and temperatures around 30°C (86°C) we got another dose of rain. This time the weather change came in quickly and roughly. We had some serious storms this summer but not like the one we…

  • Starting from the beginning

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    rollinggarden

     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…