The weather has proved unusual, and here is the impact for my garden; plus some jots about other notable conditions and effects. It has been far wetter than usual, and then there is the inverted effect of our temperatures… June was as miserable as any July-August might have been. The heat and humidity was horrible […]
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Mid-Ohio Gardening Update
Midwinter. Colder Than Usual
View over the field Everyone is talking about the weather. It is a colder than usual winter, though we had our little January thaw which seemed almost tropical, while somewhat rainy. It is too bad the snow melted off, because these temperatures and drying winds that Ohio has had recently is none too good for […]
Weathering The Storm
From Purdue’s Corn Site Friday was, brutally hot, and even in an air conditioned car, on my way to a Dr.’s appointment, my shirt became soaked from contact with the seat back. I had just finished watering my containers and a few plantings just an hour before, and still felt the clamp of the heated […]
I went from summer to fall in 24 hours
I am back from visiting summertime, which I desperately needed since we “snowbirds”, as the locals like to call us, hardly had one this year. Not that heat and humidity are my favorite things in the world…but when a beach and an ocean are nearby that’s just all right by me (got the old song […]
Ohio Has A Summer-Just In The Nick Of Time
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 […]
Fog Days
The day I drove my mother home was very foggy, preceding the melt. Now all the snow is melted down into spots of green and white. I was really hoping for the snow cover to remain. It is so much better for the garden. The almanac predicted such weather extremes, although nowhere was there a […]
