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.

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.