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Side garden progress 23-29.05

 

This week in my side garden has been as busy as the past couple of weeks. Honestly, I'm starting to feel trapped on a neverending day. Basically, every day is the same. I wake up at 4 am, have my morning coffee, and at 5:30am I'm off to the garden, first the main garden and then the side garden where I spend most of the morning. 

Right now, there's a lot of work in the garden, and I constantly feel like my to-do list keeps getting bigger and bigger. The heat we've been having doesn't help the situation. The temperatures are around 30°C(86°F), which is extremely high considering that our last frost day is actually May 15th. The plants don't mind the heat as much as I do. I'm not supposed to be in the sun, and that's why I rush all the work that I have outside. As soon as the heat starts I start feeling weak, and it takes me twice as much time to do simple tasks. Also, due to the heat, I need to water both gardens every single day, and that's a lot of watering cans that I have to take up and down the slope. I was hoping that the side garden won't be as hot as the main garden, but I was wrong. The side garden is as hot as the main garden and requires the same amount of water during the drought. 

There hasn't been any rain during this week, on Wednesday we had a short storm warning period, but all we got was damaging wind without a single drop of rain. The wind broke the whole onion/lettuce cover, which my hubby made to protect the plants from the storm. I've fixed the cover for now, but it will probably break again as soon as the winds pick up.

When it comes to plants, they really seem to like the heat and my watering. All of the veggies are growing really well. I managed to clean the radish/chard bed... Read more here

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