Comments on: About Daylight Saving Time – History, rationale, laws & dates

By: Carol Ithaca

Carol Ithaca — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:00:19 +0000

If you’re a birder, then you KNOW the answer to this question – morning’s the best – and awake, if not up, with the dawn chorus. Gardening and birding (albeit by ear) are a great match. So far, there’s been a lone robin singing away but he’s a sure sign of the growing season to come. And more birds are returning . . . and singing their hearts out. (It would be nice to think they’re doing it for us, wouldn’t it?) Bring it on!

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:38:21 +0000

I’m a “take it when I can get it” gardener. But this latest time change has certainly made my morning routine bit tougher since none of the kids want to get up and go to school. When summer hits, I only garden in the morning. Too hot in the afternoon and too tired in the evening.

By: Shady Gardener

Shady Gardener — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:19:05 +0000

I’m a morning gardener, too. But when the weather is not terribly hot, I’m an all-day gardener (if possible!). There’s always so much to do, isn’t there? And if there’s not, I can look for something to do out there!

By: kate

kate — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:37:48 +0000

I tend to function best in the late afternoon onwards … so that’s when I garden. It varies though. We don’t have DST here – it would be easier if we did because we have to keep track of the different times around us. Every now and then, there’s a push to adopt DST, but so far farmers don’t want it (or at least that’s what we are told)!

Good question – I enjoyed your book review in a later post and stumbled it for you.

By: commonweeder

commonweeder — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:07:42 +0000

Great question Kathy. I am a mid-morning gardener. I worry about getting out too early when it is wet and dewy ( although maybe beans are the only thing that are a problem) so I write until things have dried out a bit. I’m a freelance writer. Evenings don’t work very well for me because of the bugs! I don’t mind afternoons, but by 5 the sun is over the yard arm and the bugs are out in force.

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:07:35 +0000

Personal disposition, personal circumstances, and climate seem to be the three determining factors. I have really enjoyed reading all the responses. The one thing I don’t like about gardening in the morning is we normally have a heavy dew on the ground and I can get soaked up to my shins just walking around wondering what I should work on first!

By: Dee/reddirtramblings

Dee/reddirtramblings — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:27:29 +0000

In extremely hot OK, I garden in the a.m. until 11:00 which is sweat stream running down my back hot. In the early evening, the striped moquitos come out to feast, so I don’t like to garden then.~~Dee

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:44:21 +0000

Oh, I’m a mid-day, afternoon and evening gardener. Somehow, I always find myself up to my elbows in dirt and mulch right when it’s time to come in and fix dinner or tend to dogs. Which is why, in the nicer months (which here is most of them!) I don’t cook or clean nearly as much! I specifically try to get housework and indoor things done early in the day so the rest is free for me to appreciate the sunlight. That said, I still hate the switching of DST — both ways. I don’t think it’s right to mess with our internal clocks – especially the little ones’!

By: Zoey

Zoey — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:21:35 +0000

It’s morning for me, Kathy.

I am out there as soon as it’s light on the weekends (about 6a.m.). I do all my heavy duty garden chores early in the day. By 3;00 p.m., I am ready to just walk around with a glass of wine and enjoy the fruits of my labor.

During the work week, I do a bit more during the early evening. Only because it’s the only time I have.

By: Jane Marie

Jane Marie — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:38:43 +0000

I don’t care what DST does to your garden. It does terrible things to me. It’s like having jet lag twice a year. Can’t we just have one time and leave it at that? Chose one, I don’t care which, and leave my clocks alone.