Tag: water management
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Shading the Vegetable Garden 2025
This summer as well I’ve been shading the vegetable garden to minimize water evaporation and to avoid sunburned tomatoes. Beginning of August I decided to finally try professional shade netting instead of the white frost protection fleece that is neither long-lived nor inexpensive. I invested about €50 in 10 meters of dark green HDPE shade…
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Water Management in a Mediterranean Garden
Water management is a constant topic for gardeners and even more so in Mediterranean regions where rainfall may be scarce and/or erratic and water usage heavily restricted. This year, after two years of drought, we have had a relatively wet and cool spring. Between the beginning of October and until the 6th of July we’ve…
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Summer Dormancy
The Seasons in a Mediterranean Garden Gardening in the Mediterranean, especially in this low-altitude garden, I’ve gotten used to two periods of dormancy. There is of course winter – although, being prime planting season, winter tends to be a busy time when you’re still establishing a garden by planting trees and shrubs. However, nothing much…
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In the shade
Minimizing Water Evaporation in the Vegetable Garden After a very changeable spring it got up to 25 and 29 degrees in June with nary a cloud in sight. So I started to test my idea for shading the vegetable garden to help prevent water evaporation. All the shading nets available are dark and I break…
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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…