The answer to this is ‘Yes it could’. There is plenty of room for improvement. We barely set things right after the last storm and here we are again with an even bigger one, that was even more destructive as there was wind in its midst. I am grateful to say we survived the storm unscathed. For the most part the winds were blocked by … Continue reading Could this summer get any better?
We had another storm… I think I’m getting used to them. They are quite unavoidable here on the wild west coast. There was about four days when the wind howled a hooley and freezing cold rain came in sideways. You could watch the squalls form out at sea and come in across the waves and pound at our window. The strongest gust was 100 km, … Continue reading Storm schorm
I hate it when a week disappears out from under me, doesn’t it know I have plans. Some of the week was spent not gardening because the weather was awful – we had a huge storm – right in off the ocean. We didn’t suffer too much damage compared to others, but a window blew off a cabin on the hill. Fortunately, it wasn’t broken … Continue reading Thursday already
For a deeply obsessed gardener there is no good time to go on holiday as there is always something to do or something to watch out for. But I took my hand off the controls at what seems like a safe time. The onion and garlic are in, the asparagus has been taken care of and the strawberries have been planted out. The seedlings in … Continue reading You turn your back for a few days…..
You can always tell it is a good time to harvest your sweetcorn when you notice the rats are getting into it! I have a bit of a rat problem, but I am currently deliberately feeding them with goat food, which they seem to like, based on the very large hole in the goat food container. The goat food is currently being stored in the … Continue reading Storm Pollinated Sweetcorn
This week has been awful. The boffins had mentioned it, but often they are wrong, so I take the forecast with a pinch of salt. Especially as the weekend was so magnificent. It was warm – the kids went swimming. I thought they were mad, but they seemed to have fun. The sky was blue without a cloud in it. It was the closest we … Continue reading After the storm
A few weeks I asked this question in jest in response to the winter weather conditions. I now know exactly how bad it could be. We have just been through a terrible storm and it would seem it isn’t called the ‘wild west coast’ for nothing! Now I’m not naïve and I knew there would be strong winds, I just thought I’d have at least … Continue reading How bad can it be?
This is the absolute best kind of weeding there is. After a period of sustained torrential rain the soil becomes so moist deep down that even the nastiest weed like dock weed slips right out of the ground with the entire tap root attached. This is my bright side to a few days of horrible stormy weather. It was probably the worst storm we have … Continue reading Storm weeding
