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The Garden Chronicles - Week 17
By: Dig • Gardening • 20 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
More strange weather, but it's not altogether unwelcome this time. The heat and dryness continued for a week after my last post, and we were officially in moderate drought conditions, but then it was like a switch got thrown and everything changed, literally overnight. A cold front rolled in and...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 15
By: Dig • Gardening • 23 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
No rain yet. I've only had an inch in the past 5 weeks. The forecasted heat wave didn't fully materialize, though, so that's good. It has been getting into the mid and upper 90's, but no 100's so far. The grass is starting to go brown, but at least I've hardly had to mow it lately. A decent...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 14
By: Dig • Gardening • 33 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
No rain at all this past week, but the humidity dropped a bit and it was pretty nice overall. The week ahead, however, is supposed to be the hottest yet — upper 90's, with a chance of one or two 100+ days, and heat indexes of 110. I'm not looking forward to that in the slightest, and the...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 13
By: Dig • Gardening • 30 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
It finally rained. I got a little over an inch a few days ago, but it wasn't much help. All it really did was green the grass up a bit, and increase the humidity. June is usually one of the wetter months, if not the wettest, but not this year. I hope it rains a good amount in July. If it...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 12
By: Dig • Gardening • 35 Comments • 5 Likes • 4 years ago
It hasn't rained in almost 3 weeks, not since the remnants of Cristobal blew over. After a crazy amount of spring rain, it's just hot and dry now. Figures, right? - Wednesday - The germination under boards experiment. It worked well. I think I'll start doing it regularly. I'll need to...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 11
By: Dig • Gardening • 57 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
“Gardening is just another day at the plant.”
It seemed pointless to post a week 9 blog just 3 days after week 8.5, and I was too busy last weekend to post a week 10 (these things take quite a while to make), so I'm just going to call this one week 11. It's a couple of days early, but hey, that's close enough (and close enough is the widely...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 8 1/2
By: Dig • Gardening • 41 Comments • 4 Likes • 4 years ago
This is several days late because week 8 turned out to be the wettest yet. I think the ground stayed completely saturated for at least 4 days straight. It killed the tomatoes and the eggplants, and finally got to the peas (not so indestructible after all). One trellis of peas is definitely...