Lily-of-the-valley, indestructible While Professor Plum has survived and is growing by the day, there have been some garden casualties. One of the black currants had begun leafing out a little early during the April heat wave and when it got cold again a few days later, all of the little buds died. I’ve been hoping …
Garden Hectic
Gardening season is in full swing, and every spare minute I have is spent thinking about the garden, doing stuff in the garden, or recovering from doing stuff in the garden. It is a hectic time of year and I do not like the urgency and rush of trying to do everything in between working …
Goodbye October
I mean April. Yes, that tells you how spring continues to not happen. Though I think, if the weather forecast is anywhere close to being right, we are finally about to have some real spring weather. Yay! And also, happy Beltain! The annual May Day parade and Festival will be back this year. Yay! The …
Spring, Where Art Thou?
Yesterday was Earth Day, and, judging by all the sale emails I received, it’s apparently now a shopping holiday for “green” goods. But even if the item is “Earth Friendly” it’s still consumption of (very likely) something people don’t actually need. And if you don’t need it and buy it anyway, you are not being …
A Long Cold Spring
What a long cold spring it’s been. Except for this last Wednesday through Friday when we had instant summer and broke high temperature records three days in a row. It was 88F/31C here Wednesday! The previous record set in 1931 was 83F/28C. Maybe the most ridiculous thing about it all is that today it’s been …
