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In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . . Every Type of Weather This week had everything, from hot to cold and rain to sun. We need the precipitation, as we’re still in a deficit from last year, but with rain every other day or so, the ground never dries enough to prep the fields … More Hot, Cold, Rainy, Sunny: Hour-A-Day Gardening

In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . . Cool, Windy, and Rain Another cool week with rain and a few days of high wind. It made work even more herky-jerky than it normally is for us juggling two small children with garden work. Plus our bee work kept us away from the gardens for … More Windy Weather: Hour-A-Day Gardening

In this week of Hour-A-Day Gardening . . . Snow Continues It has been tough to get anything done in the garden because of the rain and snow this last week. I was able to wrap up maple syrup season, but this doesn’t count towards hour-a-day totals. We needed the moisture, but it’d be better … More April Mud: Hour-A-Day Gardening

Long-time readers of the LTI blog will remember that I used to track my gardening hours under the rubric of doing an hour a day through the growing season. My last post under this title was in late 2019, and I shelved this idea while we ran the Foodmageddon simulation in 2020–21 and then did … More The (Triumphant?) Return of Hour-A-Day Gardening