Category: Climate
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Winter is coming
In November we continued with cleaning up, re-planting, and with covering all the naked earth in an effort to keep it from getting washed out any further. After cleaning out this corner, it turned out that the tall Yucca had actually been planted in a wooden pot with iron bands – once upon a long, long…
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Vive le Forage!
When we arrived in July, the forage groundwater pump no longer worked and its control case was blackened. When we opened it, we found a shrivelled-up gekko inside – the riddle was solved. Several weeks of exchanging emails with the manufacturer and his accredited partner in the region brought no solution as the system was…
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It is HOT.
It has rained once since we arrived end of June. Since then we’re having 30-36 degrees every day, without rain. This confirms my intention to set up a garden with as little or no watering as possible. Our housesitter had planted some tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, chilies, and zucchini for me. I currently go out early…
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A Garden in the South of France: how it all started.
We moved from Switzerland into this large garden (and the accompanying house) in June of 2022. After the first weeks of emptying boxes, setting up and buying furniture it’s time to do something about the garden. It has been layouted by our predecessors but as they had not lived here full-time, and moved out in…