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24 Jul 2009Still no rain... 3 5Hazy 17°C / 63°F
9.04 am High 31.6C/14.1C
A line of storm cells blew through late yesterday afternoon and into late evening, strong gusts of wind but no rain. The wind filled the valley with woodsmoke again after a relatively clear day. A friend coming up to the Galena Bay ferry said that there was continuous dr...
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22 Jul 2009Smoke hazeSunny 18°C / 64°F
9.00 am A smell of wood smoke when I stepped out to get some raspberries for breakfast. As the day went on the valley filled up with smoke, the sky greyed out, the mountains became smoky blue silhouettes and sunlight lay at half-power in pink patches. This is the smoke from the Kelowna area fires...
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21 Jul 2009Another job done... 5 1Clear 27°C / 81°F
8.54 pm High 34.7C
Turned the soaker hose on when I got home late afternoon and gave it a bit more pressure, the water did apear to spread a bit more widely.
Dug out the Variegated Japanese Sedge at the back east corner of porch. Quite an effort getting it out and more of an effort splitting up ...
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20 Jul 2009Hope you gardeners in Kelowna are OK. 5 2Clear 24°C / 75°F
10.14pm. It may be 24C at the airport but my thermometer says 19C and there is a cool breath of air coming from the east, or maybe just down the mountain, whichever the air flow has not brought smoke from the wildfires around Kelowna in our direction. Another hot day, our ‘cool’ day y...
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19 Jul 2009weatherSunny 22°C / 72°F
8.38 am The weather front blew through last evening, somewhere must have got thunder storms from the billowing thunder clouds all around but not us. The front was supposed to bring in cooler weather but it hasn’t and the forecast for the next 14 days (not that that is very reliable) is only...
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19 Jul 2009Orange harvest, etc 3Cloudy 30°C / 86°F
6.30 pm
I felt rather guilty at the Farmers’ Market. There was a guy selling organic cherries, he comes from Mara which where our organic veggies come from. He was directly opposite the people from whom I bought very good cherries at 2/3s the price last week, and they had apricots which I ...
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18 Jul 2009Gone to the great garden in the sky7.21 am A note of labels I have culled, these are plants I have had which have disappeared/died. From 05 Violet Rock Cress/ Aubrieta cultorum ‘Royal Violet’ and Mossy Saxifrage/ Saxifraga x arendsii white form – how could one kill Aubrieta? More recently: Pot Carnation ‘Su...Sunny 14°C / 57°F
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17 Jul 2009Orange freebe 5Cloudy 31°C / 88°F
4.43 pm
I am wondering if the new soaker hose system is affecting how things grow this season. I notice that where the soaker hose is near the surface the water doesn’t spread very far out so it is possible that some patches are not getting enough water. Road for some reason seems worst but...
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17 Jul 2009Garden jobs 2Clear 26°C / 79°F
8.52 pm
A long hot busy day, reached at least 30C. Watered all of my planters and the newly planted – the rudbeckia looked very wilted so they got a layer of leaves around them to slow evaporation. The leaves were from a left-over winter leaf bag, and were very crisp and smelled wonderful,...
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15 Jul 2009Bloom Day 2, raspberries and heat emitting pine-cones 4 2Cloudy 20°C / 68°F
9.32pm
I picked a big bowl of raspberries this evening, the family are away and I am commissioned to take care of their garden and of course this is the time when all of the soft fruit is ripening. I put most of the raspberries on a tray in the freezer, having picked out most of the ants and as...
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