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Rain, rain go away...
After two very dry drought years, we are getting rain and more rain. Everyone is calling for the taps to be turned off. Everything is now beyond saturated. Many areas to the east & south in my province are continuing to be flooded. I think most fields finally got done being seeded here finally, although that’s late. Most…
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Garden: We are trying it again this year
Last year our garden was a disaster due to dry conditions & then resulting weeds. It will get worked a lot this summer as we rebuild the soil and tackle the weeds. I have grown great gardens there in the past. Last year was just not one of those years. Well, today was spent doing some miscellaneous things and planting the…
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Where do all the worms go?
November for me was a very dry month. All the plants in the veggie garden were watered by hand from a gravity fed dam. Plants stayed alive but did not thrive. I noticed that my once abundant earthworms were missing in action during this period. I dug random holes in my raised beds searching for them but they’d disappeared.…
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Big rain predicted, such a precious resource.
After a promising start to spring down here in Australia (North coast NSW) the rain petered out and by the end of November it was looking very dry, brittle and fiery again. The Bureau of Meteorology had predicted long ago for a La Niña event(wet) where was it??? Last week, I saw a prediction for a big wet in our area for…
