While we are deep frozen here, Annie of Austin has some delicious pictures in honor of Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. We are blooming icicles along the gutters- that is what we are blooming!Technorati Tags: ,
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Oh. So Now It Snows
My husband and I were watching the news which, in Central Ohio, is all about the snow, and he remarked, “I bet if people in Oswego, NY were watching this it would be like comedy to them.” That is right… the big news story here in Ohio is that we have some snow. I’m watching […]
The Cold Zone
Now this is more like it…now it is winter in Ohio, albeit a little off schedule. I thought I would take the opportunity to mention a few things about planting zones, amid the news this year that the zones will supposedly change. One of the more helpful articles on this is from Farm and Garden […]
I was going to garden…
but I thought better of it. Not too many days ago I was musing a bit about doing some of the January pruning, because normally there is January thaw about now. The season being what it is, we are in the throes of freezing temperatures which nip in the bud any ideas of spending time […]
Winter’s Second Entrance
After everyone has talked about the insertion of spring in January’s notes for the year, now comes the reappearance of winter. It has been steadily chilling, until today when early this morning I looked out upon diamond frost. That is when a veil of frost covers the ground with its netting of white, but overhead […]
Gardening, Global Warming, and El Nino
I was reading over @ Hanna‘s ‘This Garden Is Illegal’, and in one of her posts Black Swamp Girl,Kim, remarked in the comments about the effect of all this mild weather on plants. We are all Ohioans, “Buckeyes”.There are ideas that global warming is actually a natural phenomenon, etc. and while many can argue their […]
