Heat and Drought 👨‍🌾 4th field update 📷

#Hello, Hive gardeners! 👨‍🌾 📷

The last update was more than a month ago; we then went to an island. Now we’re back home, and the first thing we did was head out to the field to see how things were going. It’s been hot - between 35 °C and 40 °C every day - and the drought has been going on for three weeks now. But this time, we weren’t caught off guard. There’s enough water for irrigation - we did empty three 1,000-liter water tanks, but I found a solution for that, too.

Basically, as I said, it’s a severe drought, but I have enough water, and I’m most proud of two huge watermelons. They aren’t ripe yet, so I’ll leave them for a while longer. To be honest, I didn’t believe anything would come of it, because no one around us had managed to grow them. I hope no one steals them from me :)

Two weeks ago, before we went to the beach, we dug up our early potatoes. They aren't very big, but there were quite a few of them, and they're really good :) 😋

We still have two more rows of potatoes to harvest; this is a later variety, and once everything has dried out completely—in two or three weeks—we’ll dig them up.

All the neighbors say this is the year of the cucumbers. It’s true—we’ve grown a huge crop, and my wife has already pickled 20 jars. And they’re still growing. We’re going to run out of jars for pickling :)

There are also quite a few eggplants - white and purple ones.

And the tomatoes. They've started to change color, and some of them have even ripened.

I'm convinced that everything is growing so well (and weed-free) because of two things: we've placed black mulch under most of the plants, which retains moisture in the soil and prevents weeds from growing, and we water them intensively. I mentioned that I have three 1,000-liter water tanks.

In addition, this year I also bought a battery-powered flow pump that I use to transfer water from the river into tanks or to water the plants directly. It cost me a little over €100, including two 30-meter water hoses, but now I can see that it was worth it.

Yeah! 😎

And to wrap things up, here’s yesterday’s harvest. Lots of cucumbers, as well as everything else - tomatoes, green beans, zucchini, eggplant, and even green lettuce.

Thanks for reading!

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If someone is interested in my fieldwork - how it started this year:

https://ecency.com/@seckorama/work-in-the-fields-3rd

https://ecency.com/@seckorama/work-in-the-fields-2nd

https://ecency.com/@seckorama/the-first-fieldwork-of-the

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