#garden notes

I had to water most of my container garden daily all summer because it was regularly over 85F and now we won’t see that again until June (hopefully not in May!).

My local meteorologist says we’ve exited “Solar Summer”, representing the 90 days around the solstice with enough daylight hours to create a heat dome. I think it’s pretty neat seeing it happen and knowing the process that makes it happen.

Here and there, I see leaves on the ground.

Little garden update. Everything is booming.

Oh how disapointing (putting that mildly)—

Herbicides, and an excess of Iron to give the fake green ‘pop’ old-timers are conned into thinking is natural.

I wish this trend would stop.

It’s toxic.

The earth whispers where I’m from…

The wind, it sings.

Nature’s dance of growth and grace.

Leaves trace maps of time and place.

Of course as soon as I see progress in the garden there was a huge wind storm that blows through followed by a dumping of snow for good measure. That was Friday.

It was the silliest thing I ever saw, bright sunshine and snowflakes falling from the sky.

Saturday was not much better, no breaks in weather but I was prepared and buttoned everything up.

It’s hard to believe all that happened in the course of 24hrs.

The sun did show around 10am this morning for an hour or so and there are slow signs of snow melt. I wonder what this afternoon will bring?

One thing I have noticed is that local weather forecasts for this area are not very accurate at all so I have to do it the old fashioned way, step outside, check my outdoor thermometer… see what the wild crits (birds and squirrels) are up to.

rant/And government along with other public service groups wonder why public trust is eroding…?

Crappy service!!/rant

Ok that’s my little rant for the day.

Here we are at the end of the month and my crab apple tree is debating whether to bloom or not. It is very slow to leaf out.

Which tells me that bad weather is coming. I am in a zone 4 after all. I checked the forecast and it’s all over the place. Could be in the minuses, could be snow, could be rain, could be a dud. Who knows?

Personally I hope the tree can wait one more week.

The lavender and sweet pea are fighting

April 19, 2026

It’s that time of year again. The sun is shining. Early frosts are fewer, heat fluctuations between day and night are occurring, the snows that come melt within the day.

Time to get my peas in!

It used to be I would have to order deep root trainers from the UK.

Lee Valley Tools sells the deep root trainer pots and Veseys sells the whole kit (currently on sale).