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Garden Master
This is a time of the year when I should probably avoid ALL caffeine in my diet!
Two back-to-back days above 80F and I'm all set for summer! Then, 30mph gusts and this will be the last day for an afternoon high above 70 in the forecast . . . Much worse, the WS tells us that we will have 2 nights in the 30's. Wunderground tells us it will be 3 nights with one down to 35! Looking ahead, the 8 to 10 day has "below normal" temps blanketing the Intermountain Northwest and a big question, besides the suspicion that there will be frost instead of 35 but, what will happen after next Wednesday when we won't even see 60?!
All the cool-season plants are out there. Some are actually growing! I would so like to finish the planting of the garden!!
I put out plants yesterday that won't survive a frost - flowers, with extras still here in a flat. I'd planned on setting out some of the 5 dozen tomato plants destined for the 2012 garden . . . don't dare risk them :/, they are my heirlooms!!
I'm spending my days moving plants around the yard like some kind of scurrying chipmunk! Too much sun, too little sun, too much wind, get 'em out where they can be watered - struggle to get them put away as night falls
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My peppers hate me! The eggplants will hardly stick their noses outside to check on the conditions! So that I don't go off the deep end . .
. I turn to look at other places in the world where the weather is far more challenging like McMurdo Station in Antarctica, where winter is fast approaching and it is a -10F at this moment!
Then, there's lovely Stanley, Idaho:
http://www.sawtoothcamera.com
The Accuweather sticker on the site doesn't jive with the Weather Underground which shows a 50% chance of snow in Stanley, tomorrow. So, there's that . . .
Not everyone may agree with me, and I don't really know since I haven't lived there thru the season, but Burgos in the mountains of northern Spain looks to have about the same growing season as here. Winters are a little different but this time of year is similar. Burgos has 2 nights of frost coming up but it is afternoon there right now:
Steve
Two back-to-back days above 80F and I'm all set for summer! Then, 30mph gusts and this will be the last day for an afternoon high above 70 in the forecast . . . Much worse, the WS tells us that we will have 2 nights in the 30's. Wunderground tells us it will be 3 nights with one down to 35! Looking ahead, the 8 to 10 day has "below normal" temps blanketing the Intermountain Northwest and a big question, besides the suspicion that there will be frost instead of 35 but, what will happen after next Wednesday when we won't even see 60?!
All the cool-season plants are out there. Some are actually growing! I would so like to finish the planting of the garden!!
I put out plants yesterday that won't survive a frost - flowers, with extras still here in a flat. I'd planned on setting out some of the 5 dozen tomato plants destined for the 2012 garden . . . don't dare risk them :/, they are my heirlooms!!
I'm spending my days moving plants around the yard like some kind of scurrying chipmunk! Too much sun, too little sun, too much wind, get 'em out where they can be watered - struggle to get them put away as night falls
.My peppers hate me! The eggplants will hardly stick their noses outside to check on the conditions! So that I don't go off the deep end . .
. I turn to look at other places in the world where the weather is far more challenging like McMurdo Station in Antarctica, where winter is fast approaching and it is a -10F at this moment!
Then, there's lovely Stanley, Idaho:
http://www.sawtoothcamera.com
The Accuweather sticker on the site doesn't jive with the Weather Underground which shows a 50% chance of snow in Stanley, tomorrow. So, there's that . . .
Not everyone may agree with me, and I don't really know since I haven't lived there thru the season, but Burgos in the mountains of northern Spain looks to have about the same growing season as here. Winters are a little different but this time of year is similar. Burgos has 2 nights of frost coming up but it is afternoon there right now:
Steve
