Still Waiting for Good Growing Weather?

[digitS']

Cane', it was one of the most difficult things for me to realize when I started using garden forums. I imagine it is for most people.

First, I tried to find some "common ground" with the population nearest - the Puget Sound folks. Forget about it! The fact that Cooperative Extension was so firmly committed to those gardeners just lent confusion when I tried to find "expert" advice.

You can find good advice just everywhere but view it from your own perspective, where your own "digs" are. It has to come down to the soil you hold in your hands, beneath the sky above your hat.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Would this make a good quilt? (If we could "zoom in" on a mountainous state like Colorado, it would be a crazy quilt by itself!)



Steve

 

[NwMtGardener]

Heh, i like that map because of the white for the coldest areas...right next to me, those mountains are snowcapped a majority of the year so the white is very appropriate!!

P.s. DUMPING cold rain here, and supposed to for a few days...guess that's true for you, digits and thistle??

 

[digitS']

46 and that looks like the afternoon high. It was nearly afternoon before the thermometer rose about 40.

No, yesterday was our rainy day.

Heavy overcast is now giving way to blue sky and big clouds.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Well Stevearoo, I thought today was a very rainy day! At least everywhere I was at. Didn't work, ( I decided I'm too mature to work through rain these days ) but had to wander around nurseries looking at trees for a customer. Should have worn a real raincoat.

We did need the rain. Man! Tuesday was windy enough to blow your socks off, and the pollen! The air was perfectly yellow with it.

 

[Collector]

Got things covered tonight, rolled the dice last night and lucked out , no frost. Predicting 34* tonight so not even chancing it.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have seen anywhere from 33 to 36 for the low tonight and we have everything covered. Blankets, sheets, tarps, straw, buckets.

 

[thistlebloom]

I covered the tomatoes with straw last night, and tonight I added frost cloth. I'm feeling very virtuous right now, compared to the mess I
let happen last year!

 

[NwMtGardener]

Snow. On the ground. This morning. And still coming down. That is all i have to say...oh, except that of course today starts my 6 day memorial holiday. Arghhhhhh!

 

[digitS']

So sorry, Heather!

Here, there was frost at the garden by 4:30. No frost at 3:45 and all the tomatoes & such were covered.

I had the sprinklers on for nearly 2 hours and I think everything is okay -- even those pole bean volunteers!

Steve