What the hell May? Last night the low was around 2-3ºC. Today it was all manner of weather: freezing rain, sleet, snow, regular rain and sun, windy as all get out and damn cold, only about 5-6ºC. Needless to say I covered up my veg garden last night, and I’ve kept it covered all day…
Tag: spring
Power gardening
My spring continues to be a hectic one, which makes meeting essential gardening milestones a bit of a squeeze. But this week I managed to hit some targets by cramming in a few intensive sessions between other commitments. We’ve been very lucky to have a week of lovely weather, bookended by weekends of the same….
Garden Freckles
Freckles lettuce My garden, or what’s been planted in it so far, is chugging right along. I’ve got lettuces, spinach, radishes, carrots, beets and some chard and kale in the ground in the backyard beds, but these are mixed in terms of success. The backyard beds get less sun than the front yard, so this…
A costly error in judgement
I knew that this could happen, but I just couldn’t pass up the pretty when I saw them… hydrangeas for my porch planters! I put these out on the weekend of March 17-18, and the week that followed was insanely warm. I wasn’t terribly surprised that it got quite cold again for a couple days,…
This is going to be a very short Spring
Last Sunday was unbelievably warm. I was finally on the other end of a nasty stomach bug, and I had hoped to plant my onions, although as of Sunday the ground still had a wee bit of ice under the surface, so they had to wait. Instead I cleaned and reorganized the garage. To be…
Welcome spring…officially
Today was the first full day of spring, and while we’ve been experiencing beautiful, warm late-spring weather all week, surfing around 19°C most of the week, I can’t help but think Mother Nature has a cruel sense of humor when she gives us working stiffs these cool, near freezing weekends. While I would love to…
My garden is convinced
There have been snowdrops going strong in my garden since last weekend, when we got that gorgeous warm sunny weather. This weekend has been a bit of write off weather-wise, and according to tonight’s forecast next weekend will be too although all week is supposed to be beautiful (what is with that? Seriously Mother Nature,…
Robin makes Breakfast Television
I’m not sure if they’ll post the video on the BT website, but this morning our neighbourhood Kamikaze Robin made it on TV! Breakfast Television’s producers contacted me yesterday about my post, and this morning they sent a camera guy. He came by super early, before we were even out of bed (thank God, because…
April showers bring May flowers
Just trying to get through the work days… and one of the things that helps is coming home and enjoying the changes in my garden.
Signs, signs, everywhere are signs
I wanted to reassure all of you who have been lamenting the return of the cold temperatures after last week’s positively balmy weather. Look what I found in my garden this morning: But… then Dave Devall told us tonight that parts of Ontario are expecting as much as 25 cm of snow overnight. YAY. Winter,…