The weather's been crazy, to put it mildly. With this second, post-Christmas thaw the snow is mostly gone. Monday it almost reached 50°F and it wasn't raining, so I decided to walk around the garden and check on things.
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Worried for your plants with this weather?
January 4, 2020 – Posted in: FAQ, Plant info, WeatherHave you been wringing your hands about this crazy weather, wondering if it will kill the bulbs that are emerging from the ground way too early? Chill! (pun intended). There's not too much you can do. Let me explain:
Spring Is Buried Under A Blizzard: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day March 2017
March 15, 2017 – Posted in: Weather, What's up/bloomingI just knew a mild February would mean trouble later on. Spring in February doesn't happen here without some sort of counterbalance later on. But even I couldn't guess it would be the snowstorm of the century. I thought those sub-zero temperatures the week before were punishment enough. Read on to learn what was blooming before Snowmageddon and what is currently cheering me in the house.
Yes, You Can Cut Back Dead Plants Too Early
March 10, 2017 – Posted in: Garden chores, Hellebores, Mud Season, WeatherI cut the dead foliage off my hellebores in February, and I paid the price in March. How was I to know we'd have the coldest temps of winter in March? Read on to find out what I did to fix things.
The January Thaw
January 24, 2017 – Posted in: Weather, What's up/bloomingThe January thaw is an accepted part of weather lore around here--thaw being a relative term--meaning warmer than you would expect but not necessarily warm enough to melt all the snow. But this year almost all the snow did melt, save the piles that accumulate from removing it from the walk, driveway, and road. As a matter of fact, it was 58°F(14°C) on Sunday as I glanced at my phone and read "Winter Storm Watch in effect for Monday." What? It's gorgeous out! But--it is January, after all.
Summer’s Last Hurrah and Winter’s Sneak Preview
October 18, 2015 – Posted in: WeatherThere comes a time in the life of every cold climate gardener when a certain fact must be faced: the first frost of autumn is nigh. When this event occurs more than halfway through October--as it did this year, on the night of the 16th--I don't grieve overmuch. It certainly could have happened much sooner [...]
A Dream Come True: My New Weather Station
April 23, 2015 – Posted in: Acquisitions, Tools and Equipment, WeatherEver since I realized that the National Weather Service at our local airport under-reported both the lows and the highs at our first house, ever since I discovered we were a lot more likely to have frost than our region at large, I've wanted to track the weather in my yard, the uber-local weather. For [...]
Drowning in Snow?
February 23, 2015 – Posted in: WeatherIt seems the snow will never stop. We haven't had the huge accumulations that parts of New England have seen, just another couple of inches one day, another couple of inches a few days after that. After a while it does amount to a whole bunch. The sun has been shining more (when it's not [...]
Winter Bones: Lilactree Farm Garden Notes No. 1, 2015
January 16, 2015 – Posted in: Lilactree Farm, Meditations, WeatherWhat a dark fall and early winter this has been, cold too, now. Hal Borland was right when he wrote that ‘as the day lengthens, the cold strengthens.’ This morning is a brief reprieve, grey again but calm and mild, impossible to resist taking the camera into the garden.
Myth 64 – Frost is more likely when there is a full moon.
May 14, 2014 – Posted in: WeatherWhen someone asks me to name a few of the topics in my book, my usual answer has been, “Oh, things like frost is more likely on a full moon.” There’s always a pause before the questioner says, “You mean that isn’t true?” A look at data, and thinking about the variety of topography in [...]
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