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Live from the Farm: Water Logged Chard
The rain recently has done wonders for the plants, but this swiss chard plant can’t take it. I haven’t checked the actual count, but I’m guessing we received about 3 inches of rain today. No flooding in the beds though.
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If you’ve arrive here from Google hoping for a method to never water your garden, you’ll be disappointed to hear the answer is Mother Nature.
Here in Chicago, we’ve had a miserable spring for being outdoors but wonderful weather for the outdoors. In the last 10 days, we had an inch of rain (as reported [...]
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It’s been the perfect mix of sun and rain to give the vegetables a good start. A little more heat would help some of the plants (namely the peppers), but most things look good.
Carrots
The carrots were planted on a windy day. Good news, they’ve seeded and are growing nicely. Bad news, they aren’t all in [...]
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I think people forget why April showers bring May flowers. This weekend was a great example — Saturday was a great day to work in the garden. Since then, we’ve had 2 great days of rain — .9 inches on Sunday and .16 on Monday. That’s a full inch of rain. With freshly planted seeds [...]
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Based upon my complaints yesterday, mother nature listened and we received 1/3 inch of rain yesterday.
This picture was taken this morning and shows one of the square foot gardening plots moist after a good days rain (and the Cubs still got their game in — two wins!).
As I described yesterday, I’m trying square foot gardening [...]
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Twelve days into April and we are 15% of our way to an average rainfall. According to WorldClimate, Cook County (where I grow) gets 3.9 inches of rain in April. So far, we’re at .60 inches.
April showers are suppose to bring May flowers. It is also a bit too early to get the hose out [...]
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