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The Garden Chronicles - Week 14
By: Dig • Gardening • 33 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 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 • 5 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 • 5 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 • 5 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 • 5 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...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 7
By: Dig • Gardening • 18 Comments • 4 Likes • 5 years ago
Sure enough, the year I decide to try a garden blog ends up having one of the wettest springs on record. It was finally supposed to be dry and clear this past week, but of course, it wasn't. Monday and Tuesday were cloudy all day, and cool (again), but at least it didn't rain, and by Wednesday...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 6
By: Dig • Gardening • 43 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“Rain, rain, go away...”
It's been cloudy and rainy for the better part of the past 2 weeks. Today it stopped around noon, gave me a few hours for picture taking, and then started back up again (with a little thunder and lightening) while I was inside sorting the images for this post. Temps are pretty much back to...
