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18.05.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Rainiest Season Ever

2011 + How's the weather?

I talked with my husband in Ohio and it is still raining, and quite cool. He heard the farmers have only a small fraction of their fields planted with the corn crop. People aren’t able to keep up with the mowing either, although that is a lesser problem. There are a number of problems for…

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13.05.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Rural Report Spring 2011

2011 + garden chores + How's the weather? + spring

Here in Ohio, we couldn’t wait for spring to get here. We complained about the long winter and the uncommonly frequent snowfall. We fairly longed for spring, more than the usual, and sent each other encouraging reminders and photos to keep each other’s spirits up. And then Spring arrived… but not as we imagined or…

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23.02.11 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Expectedly, We Re-entered Winter

2011 + garden chores + How's the weather? + seed starting + Vegetable garden

I hope no one else in Ohio is disappointed, since there is no real end of winter weather here before April, and last blasts of it can happen into May. I look outside onto snow frosted fields, the upturned furrows breaking the surface are like a choppy sea. More winter storms are coming this week,…

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17.12.10 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Winter Wandering – Or Now Is Not The Time To Get Dirty

An Armchair Gardener + garden chores + How's the weather?

Or is it? I just can’t make myself get into the garden at this time, and Ohio’s prematurely freezing weather (it is more like January weather when the mercury flirts with temperatures in the single digits) makes staying indoors with a hot cup of something and warm new booties all that I want to do….

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16.06.10 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Wet And Wild – Rural Observations

2010 + garden chores + How's the weather?

That would sum up the weather this month so far. By now every Ohio Gardener is talking (and complaining) about how wet it is and wondering when we will see the sunshine of June! My vegetable garden is sprinkled with ominous, tiny weed sprouts, but we are mostly mowing and trying to keep up with…

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26.02.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Year of The Big Snow

2010 + garden chores + Garden photos + How's the weather? + winter

That is what I call the 2009-2010 winter. We have met records or surpassed them in snowfall this year. Listening to others I can tell I’m not alone when I say I’ve lost my infatuation with the snow. It would be different if we had bought the cross country equipment we talked about last August….

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18.01.10 | Ilona Erwin | 8 Comments

My Ohio Winter

2010 + garden chores + How's the weather? + January + winter

It has been a snowy and cold winter, the present season broke records for cold temperatures. I like the picturesque snow covered landscape and several mornings I awakened to hoar frosts that transformed the garden into white traceries of laced branches and stems against the sequined, white velvet snow. The Cinderella winter season has given…

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24.09.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

State of the Nation’s Gardens

garden chores + How's the weather?

We knew the weather went awry this year…here is the good and the bad on expected autumn goodies. clipped from buzz.yahoo.com The good/bad news: The same wet East Coast weather that ended up sweetening apples and brightening foliage has also rotted pumpkin vines. Scary prospects are also in store for the gourd harvest because of…

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11.08.09 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Ohio Has A Summer-Just In The Nick Of Time

How's the weather? + summer

The weather has turned sultry, and late summer is as I would expect it to be: hazy horizons, sweaty brows, hot and humid. I don’t know about you, but I appreciated the cool temperatures we had this summer, even if it did mean delayed tomato ripening. The corn fields are tall and deep green, the…

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03.06.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

too * * * * HOT

garden chores + How's the weather?

summer is well upon us here in georgia. the temperatures have already beencalled “unseasonably”warm by the tv weathermen. it is already up into the 90’s,much more like our mid-july dog days….although the nights are still pleasantly cool,the fresh morning flowers are limp in the afternoon sun, despite all mywatering. like the summer squash plants in…

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