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Garden Diary: Still dealing with drought
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Gardening has been really hard this summer. Continuous heat and watering could be the entire description of the past couple of months. Still, we’re making slow progress and have good veggie success. Continuous drought The past week has been as…
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Dealing with cracks in the soil
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Most garden plants like to grow in rich soil full of organic materials. That’s why we gardeners buy sowing compost and start our seeds in almost perfect conditions. We transplant our plants into our clay-rich gardens pamper the plants and…
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May craziness is finally over- weather summary
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May has been a very moody month. From very high-temperature jumps to storms with very huge temperature falls, May has proven once more to be one of the most unstable months of the year. Although this May has been…
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Garden planning: How much sun is too much sun?
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Gardening tips and articles on the amount of the needed sun can many times be very confusing and misleading for a new gardener. We follow the tips that we find in books and online, read the labels on seed bags,…
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Stuck in a never-ending day
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It has been a hot late summer day for the past 20 days. Every single day the morning temperatures have been around 13°C(55°F) and daily temperatures around 33°C(91°F), not a single drop of rain and not a single cloud in…