Rolling down my garden

  After almost a year and a half, we finally finished the extensive construction work in the side garden. During the past year and a half, we've demolished 4 sheds that were in the side garden, cleaned the area, built a small veggie garden, made new steps, and this week we managed to finish most of the second terrace.  The second terrace didn't exist before, this was actually an entrance to the old workshed... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.

  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 are a big problem. The bed is directly under the balcony and when the rain is pouring all the water ends up in the new bed.  This is why my hubby built a temporary awning out of scrap nylon... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.

  My little side veggie garden is finally starting to look like a real garden. The rain which we had last weekend helped a lot, and I finally got the chance to clean the whole garden. It was a good decision to wait with the carrot cleaning since now that the rain fell it was much easier to remove the weeds from the bed. It turned out that, like in the main garden, carrots here weren't a success. Out of the whole bed, only a small part is actually covered in carrots and I was left with a bunch of empty space. This is why I decided against the previous idea for this bed and I decided to grow everything here. This year I will try to grow every single vegetable that I grow in the main garden too... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.

  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 o...

 Finally, after a long period and lots of work hours, we've managed to bring the side garden big jobs near the finish. After demolishing the worksheds, removing the demolition material, building a new veggie garden, and filling it with soil, the steps are almost done.  The side garden area has been abandoned for a long time, a few years back we made some brick/concrete steps to soften the slope. The steps worked great for a decade, but due to the constant usage, ice during the winter, and normal subsidence of the soil, the steps started falling apart. Every year the situation was worse until last year we decided that it was time to deal with the side garden. Removing the buildings around the slope opened up a great space for relaxation and gardening, all we needed was to fix it up and add some kind of step solution... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the ne...

 May is the month when my tulips are the prettiest. The earlier varieties are still blooming, and the later varieties have just started opening, making the two small tulip beds colorful and full of flowers.  This year the tulips started opening earlier. After the March cold, the April warmth woke up all of the bulbs, and all of the tulips exploded at the same time. Both later and earlier varieties started opening almost at the same time, and by the end of April, all of the tulips have opened. They were even faster than the daffodils, which are still starting to form flower heads. The first to open, like last year, was the Blue parrot tulip... Read more here As of June 2022, Rolling down my garden will be moving to its own side:  https://rollingdownmygarden.com Full new posts can be read on the new page.