Nina Fomichenko is facing the same problem with the weather. She has been working her small plot, about 100 yards from her apartment, for 20 years, ever since a brick factory closed down and stopped dredging mud from the area. Her garlic is already turning yellow, from the heat, and her cucumbers are small. She fears that a nearby pond, from which she drags buckets of water, will soon dry up. She would then have to lug buckets of water from her apartment.
Nothing here seems to come easy.