Comments on: ‘Tis the season for phenology

By: Phenology helps you time your garden chores — Cold Climate Gardening

Phenology helps you time your garden chores — Cold Climate Gardening — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:08:43 +0000

[...] garden, it can help you pinpoint where you are in the cycle of seasons. You can also peruse an earlier post I wrote on phenology, which had observations I had collected from a variety of sources. It frustrated me then, and still [...]

By: Talitha

Talitha — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:09:24 +0000

Hah! That’s funny. I never paid any attention to any of this stuff, but when I planted my first batch of peas, I heard spring peepers for this first time this year in the evening.

By: cyndy

cyndy — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:59:29 +0000

Thanks for posting from your “trusty file cabinet”, Kathy! The info is great, and I esp. like the list from Lee Reich…ps, I don’t think I will purchase the software I was looking at…turns out the penny nail that holds my collection of calendars on the wall of the cellar steps seems like a better investment….that and the fact that my son has tinkered around with Excel for me !

By: jenn

jenn — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:17:54 +0000

fascinating stuff!

By: M Sinclair Stevens (Texas)

M Sinclair Stevens (Texas) — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:27:33 +0000

One of the reasons I began keeping a garden journal was that this idea fascinates me–although I never knew it had a name until now.

As you point out, we need completely different rules down here where there are no lilacs, apple trees, or tulips to guide us. And luckily we don’t have to wait for the frost to get out of the ground because it never gets into it.

I wanted to track the succession of plants, but they are not so orderly. Some react to the lengthening days regardless of the temperature or amount of rain. Others bloom early in rainy years and late in drought years. Those plants which are triggered by temperature changes court danger as it can be 92 one week and 32 the next…as happened last week.