Rainfall
- 2nd: 0.14″
- 4th: 0.39″
- fifth: 0.42″
- tenth: 0.59″
- twenty fourth: 0.01″
- Complete to this point: 1.55 inches
Temperature
- vary of nighttime lows: 53 to 72°F (11.6 to 22.2°C)
- vary of daytime highs: 76 to 94°F (24.4 to 34.4°C)
- With out shade material
- Exterior: 91°F (33°C) |104°F (40°C) inside
- With shade material
- Exterior: 90°F (32°C) | 84°F (29°C) inside
- Exterior: 93°F (34°C) | 84°F (29°C) inside
- Exterior: 94°F (34.4°C) | 86°F (30°C) inside
- Exterior: 94°F (34.4°C) | 88°F (31°C) inside
I am guessing that the regular rise in inside temps is as a result of
construction itself heating up and retaining that warmth in a single day. Additionally days
of full solar versus partly cloudy days. Even so, it is nonetheless higher than the temps with out it.
Climate Notes
We’re into our summer time climate sample the place, because it warms up, rain methods come
up off the Gulf from the southwest after which cut up as they strategy the
southern Appalachians. The consequence for us is that we usually miss the rain
that the remainder of the Southeast will get (rain shadow effect).
Backyard Notes
- The birds obtained all of the cherries! No pie this 12 months.
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Now that the planting is completed, I am focusing totally on getting all the pieces
mulched earlier than choosing begins. And watering as wanted.
Planted
- candy potato slips
- corn, Trucker’s Favourite
- sorghum
Harvested
- multiplier onions
- strolling onions
- wheat
- oregano
- thyme
- candy basil
- potatoes
- garlic
- snow peas
- cherry tomatoes
- mulberries
- pink raspberries
- lambs quarter
- kale
- Swiss chard
- wild lettuce
- daikon leaves
- daikon radishes
- blueberries
- inexperienced pepper
Preserved
- lambs quarter, canned
- final of the pantry saved winter squash, dehydrated for squash powder
- goats milk mozzarella, shredded and frozen
Pictures
| candy potato slips earlier than planting |
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| winter wheat |
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| My mattress of volunteer lambs quarter |
It is rising within the location of
the new keyhole garden.
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| Peanuts, volunteer cherry tomatoes, and Katy |
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| Corn and flowering carrot plant (a purple selection, I feel) |
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| Quickly! |
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Apart from processing wheat, I have been experimenting with making buckwheat flour from final 12 months’s crop. I exploit my power blender and sieve to sift. Does an okay job however wants enchancment. |
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| Moonglow pear |
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June salad: wild lettuce, daikon leaves, final of the peas, first of the cherry tomatoes, crumbled goat feta cheese. |
Parting shot
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| First sunflowers |
Your flip! How does your backyard develop? (Or does it???)
