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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Winter Wandering – Or Now Is Not The Time To Get Dirty
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. […]
Wet And Wild – Rural Observations
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 […]
The Year of The Big Snow
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. […]
My Ohio 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 […]
State of the Nation’s Gardens
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 […]
