During the long and very hot summer, it was always in the corner of my mind that I needed to think about my garden and fall, unless I wanted to roll up the growing and call it a year. So out of that came these DIY hoop house projects: I came across a copy of… Continue reading Urban Homesteading: Building A Simple Hoop House
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Cold Weather Protection for Fall Crops
It doesn't much more than this color in a maple leaf to tell us in the Pacific Northwest that Fall is here..... Fall here brings the rain back, but it also has plenty of warm afternoons and sun. Just much shorter days though, and it cools off quickly. The garden still grows happily. But with… Continue reading Cold Weather Protection for Fall Crops
August In The Garden
Summer settled in, with a few days of cool(er) weather at the end of July (read, normal weather for the PNW). It gave me time to go outside and do a lot of needed work. I assessed what was thriving, what wasn't growing well, and what needed to be culled (a good way to speed… Continue reading August In The Garden
July In The Garden
July was a long month here in the PNW. The first 3 weeks were very, very hot - going into the 90's almost daily. The 4th week we got a few days again of "normal" weather, where we have cloud cover, that keeps down temperatures later in the day, when it burns off. I will… Continue reading July In The Garden