Garden diary
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Garden Diary Week 24: a bit of sunshine
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Finally, after weeks and weeks of rain and showers, we got a few dry days(and a shower). Catching Up On Work The one dry week after a very long period of rain had to be used well. Although temperatures are still quite low, with morning temperatures around 10°C(50°F), daily longer sunny periods are finally making…
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Garden Diary Week 23: first bigger harvest
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What started in May, continued in June. Showers and rain are now becoming a pretty normal daily schedule. We already got 50mm of rain past couple of days, and it seems this June will also be stormy. I’m almost sure we won’t have a hot summer this year. Temperatures are still mostly below 25°C(77°F), and…
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Garden Diary Week 21-22: Even more rain
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Another week of cooler weather with lots of showers and rain. I guess we better get used to it this year. Rainy May Unlike last year’s May, which was very warm and stormy, this May was much cooler with huge amounts of rain. This May, we got an unbelievable 212mm of rain, which combined with…
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Garden Diary Week 19-20: Tomato Planting
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Garden work suspended until the rain stops is the perfect description for the past two weeks. But we somehow managed to plant the tomatoes. Extreme Rain May has continued the extreme rain trend we’ve been having since December. In the past two weeks, we got another 140mm of rain, bringing us very close to the…
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Garden Diary week 18: Rain and rain again
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What’s the same in March, April, and May? The unusual amount of rain we’ve been getting. We already got 520mm of rain this year. This is 2/3 of our yearly rain amount. We can barely get 2 dry days for any decent garden work, and most of the time I’m just rushing to do what…