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 […]
How's the weather?
too * * * * HOT
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 […]
Fickle Weather
Today couldn’t make up it’s mind whether it wanted to be a sunny day or a stormy one. I got ready to go out and garden, after getting home from an appointment, took time to talk over somethings with one of my kids… and boom! cold wind and rain moved in. It has been hail […]
Winter’s Aftermath
We don’t think too much about it while everyone is trading temperature reports and talking about record breaking lows, but at some point the clash between the weather we are experiencing and the cold tolerance of our plants will become something to reckon with. We won’t know just how hard our winter was on our […]
Winter For Sure
It’s winter for sure here in the Heartland. Horribly cold the other day and a glaze of ice tonight. Hopefully everyone is tucked away in their homes around a warm hearth :) My indoor bulb pans are doing well, and the poinsettias are still alive ;) So far so good with my Rosemary tree. This […]
The Sadness of Gardening
It is not all beauty and light, you know. I have had friends say they wanted to see the garden, and it got me thinking. My initial response is always..” Oh, what my garden used to be…” remembering times when it held first priority in the thrill of making a garden and having a life […]
