2022
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Another excellent harvest and more storms – the main garden weekly review
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The weeks in June are all the same. Extreme warmth followed by a couple of storms and then more extreme heat. After a very rainy past week, this week we didn’t get any rain at all. The storms have passed…
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Mama bear has had enough
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This has been a really difficult year for the seedlings and potted vegetables. The beginning of the spring was very cold, which didn’t allow our seedlings to grow as they should. After the cold, came unusually warm months, and we’ve…
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Tomatoes are out of control
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For most of the past week, I was away from the garden. The weather changed abruptly, and after a few warm weeks, we again had an episode of cold, rainy, and windy days. Of course, as soon as we get…
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Changes bring big harvests
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We all strive to grow big and beautiful pieces of vegetables. We want perfect lettuce heads, big cabbages, long carrots, and lots of beans and peas per plant. But, what if we notice that no matter what we do we…
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Accidental greenhouse build
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When we decided to make new beds in the yard, we had no idea the problems we’d have with the new onion/lettuce bed. The bed itself is great, on a great spot and the veggies grow nicely, but the storms…