Rolling down my garden

 After years of worrying if we'll get a destructive storm or not, this year we finally said that it was enough and ordered anti-hail netting. It took a while to get it. Probably due to a lot of storms around us, and the increase in orders, but last Friday it finally arrived and we decided to install it right away. The best way to install an anti-hail net is to secure it on a strong metal frame. This way the netting can last up to 10 years without much maintenance, but that's not possible in our garden. Having a forest garden means that every possible flat surface needs a way to be cleaned. Once the autumn starts the garden is full of leaves that cover everything. We need an easy way to clean the netting, and having a fixed netting isn't an option... 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 was supposed to be a post on how good the garden is looking at the beginning of June. On Thursday I was in the garden cleaning the beds and when I finished I looked up the hill and thought that the garden never looked this good in June and that it would be a shame if the storm hit us. It's just like I've invited the storm to come, and on Thursday evening we got another violent one. I should mention in the beginning that we actually avoided the worse two times... 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, I got some free time to clean up the backyard. The backyard is actually very small. It has only the basement entrance, which I wrote about recently , my new onion/lettuce bed, and a retaining wall area which, no matter how much I try can't get an actual theme or a purpose other than being a retaining wall. Last year I cleaned this whole area , added a tile border, and planted new plants wanting to make a rock garden. I thought this would work well since this side drains really fast, the soil is mixed with rocks and bricks, and the sun burns it fairly easily. Well, I can now say that this plan fell to bits. In the place of the tile border is now my new onion bed and most of the plants which I bought last year did not survive the winter. Although all of them were frost-resistant I'm guessing the drought killed them and since this year April was very warm all of my old plants reappeared and the garden turned back to wild/meadow looking. I tried to make a meadow-style gard...

It is now becoming a pattern. A week of good, even hot weather, is interrupted by a storm at the end of the weekend. The same thing happened this week. This time after the summer temperatures and intense heat, the weather change came abruptly. The wind again did a lot of damage. The strong north wind completely tore down my hail defense and damaged some of the plants. Luckily there was no hail, but the rain looked a lot like a monsoon and in just a couple of minutes half of the garden was flooded and the paths turned into small rivers. I can't really do much in the garden right now, it is just too wet... 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.