Rolling down my garden

  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...