How is your weather?

[vfem]

Its been cool for a week almost, now its just cold and rainy!

AC has been off (which is nice) and the windows open. Now if only the bugs would start dying!!!

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi there!

Here in the southern UK the daytime temperatures are, perversely, going up......!! This often happens as the children go back to school (that happens today, so it's right on schedule). The nights are often rather chilly enough for me to use my floating fleece.

The forecast for the coming few days is rather good:
http://uk.weather.yahoo.com/england/oxfordshire/thame-37148/
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I have re-potted a lot of my cuttings into a series of stacking pots which I purchased (at a bargain price,of course ) Each tier will hold approx. 3 plants & they are very stable up to 7 tiers & I have 27 layers altogether.
So that is a lot of plants I can stack inside. I also have lots of other stuff in ordinary single pots.

So now I am poised ready to bring in the most delicate ones & the ones which will continue to bloom or fruit indoors. I have also tucked in some new late cuttings just hoping they might take overwintering indoors.

:rose Hattie :rose

 

[injunjoe]

Hello Hattie, Looks like by Sat. you will be in near freezing cold weather!

It is so hard to think of that when it is so hot here.
It is amazing how the temp can be so diverse.
Wishing you luck with your garden goals!

 

[lesa]

I always feel kind of sad, this time of year. Yes, it is still beautiful, cool 40's and 50's at night and 70's in the daytime. But, you know what is coming...I see fall leaves on the grass and the veggies are just about done. I am hoping for a late frost- we shall see. I grew two huge pumpkins- now I have to figure out how to get them out of the garden and into the front yard!! I look forward to collecting seeds to start in the cold frames, in the early spring...Since I did my first year of canning, I look forward to tasting summer in the winter! Enjoy fall!

 

[HiDelight]

Lesa I am sad as well to be honest

I just think of the garden as lovely natural antidepressant (even though I take an actual pill as well and am not to shy to admit it!) the garden... rain or shine is wonderful medicine

we are supposed to warm up here now for a few days but of course they are during my work days ..go figure huh?

..I am still blown away by the tornado here how strange that was!

have a wonderful day you guys

Hattie you and I are weather twins looks like kids going back to school here and of course it is warming up again!

I start watching my blue eyed chipmunk this week how wonderful we get this chance to enjoy this child

 

[digitS']

Hattie, you will have exactly the same temperatures tomorrow as I will have here. I'm her twin, I'm her twin!! Actually, it's a little cooler here now that the kids are back in school . . . .

Anyway, zone 5/zone 7/zone 8

How about Joan in zone 8a - NW Louisiana??

At, what is it, 53 degrees northern latitude - Hattie's weather has to be a bit different even than HiDelight. (And yes, I suspect that she's just about "your weather twin." )

Our US Department of Agriculture was so kind to set up these zones based on winter temperatures . . . of course, even for those in zone 4, we haven't had a frost to end our GROWING season . . . yet, knock on wood.

Climate is really an interesting subject. It is a stereotype - would that be an accurate way of thinking about it? Weather is immediate. Climate, a generality.

I just wish that the GROWING season would get a clear, official classification rather than a "will this plant survive a winter there" way of defining things.

Steve