Where Are You and How is Your Weather?
Marilyn_Sue
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How's the weather and how does your garden grow? Long.........
Comments (3)Daily weather has been strange - somewhat mild winter, lots of wind, then hot February and March with more wind and a couple of hard freezes in late April. That double whammy hurt the majority of the fruit trees and a large number of shade trees. The trees looks so strange as they struggle to rebud and leaf out. We are continuing in a severe drought so everything except the weeds are almost nonexistent. There are so many trees, some 50 years and older, that have not survived. It's sad for trees to die off, especially ones of that age and size. We can't just stick them in the ground and they grow as they do in many areas, we have to baby them for several years to get them established. I did have DH plow up the garden area. I have tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse that need to be planted, but I'm not sure that things will do much at all, even with extensive watering - darn it. Probably should have just started greenhouse varieties, but that's no fun. The Sweet Autumn Clematis and the Malva Zebrina are the only two plants that are doing well outside. But - and yes I am going to shout - WE HAVE SOME CHANCE OF SHOWERS FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS! Send your good thoughts and prayers this way, please. Everyone can post pictures of yards and anything else that is growing nicely and I will live vicariously through them...LOL. While I may complain about the drought, my thoughts and prayers are with the people of Oklahoma. It is almost beyond comprehension that deadly storms hit the same area two days in a row and then hit on another day just a few miles from them. Unexplainable....See Morehow are your plants faring if you have extreme weather?
Comments (11)I've lost a good deal of the poppies, blooms rot before they can open. The heat/humidity has done a number on what little I was able to plant. :( Calendula Off. Didn't even come up for me this yr. Was terribly bummed about that one. I was so looking forward to that! Ah well. The one surprise I did get was a few poppies turned out to be White ones. It was a butterfly or hummingbird mix I sprinkled in a cruddy spot. I hope the Lantana I planted comes back next yr. My day lilies that got transplanted from a neighbors yard bloomed even though the outer leaves withered. I'm currently waiting on the morning glories to bloom. My Fireworks Clem had one bloom that was unopened when I purchased it, it opened, so I was excited about that. :D Veggies I'm having to water every other day, just to keep them from wilting on me. Potted flowers, I have begonias doing pretty good. Looks like I have pods on the pinks and hopefully soon on the reds. I also have a few young maple trees(neighbor dug them up and gave them to me) Not sure what they are, but they are doing better now. Next year I will have far more things planted, winter sowing things and sowing things here shortly to get an earlier start on them. As well as putting things into the ground in the fall. I pray good blessings on each and every one of your gardens this year and next! ~Tina Marie...See MoreHow's the weather where you are?
Comments (18)We've had more than enough rain at times in the spring, and as usual, once the month of July came around the waterworks stopped, at least for a while. We had a couple nice rain showers this past week, though we could still use more. Temps have been a little lower than normal, usually mid-upper eighties for highs and seventies for lows, it's been about ten degrees cooler than usual. Hasn't been bad, unlike last year going through three months without hardly any rain to even speak of. Some of my other plants that did great last year died or were stunted from too wet a spring, and didn't bounce back well. Also, more clouds than sun in June, more sun now it's July. Karen...See MoreWhat is your weather today where you live?
Comments (59)21 F right now in Lexington VA. Will be sunny all day and rain starts tonight thru Fri. Then lots of sun everyday starting Saturday with 40’s as highs for awhile. Big issue is we have house closing tomorrow. Cleaner can’t come til Saturday. We can’t get trailer up to house so some of my son’s W&L fraternity boys are coming to carry everything up to house hopefully Sunday so I can return trailer. Still lots of Jan10 th snow and ice on the ground. Our house in back right this was closest and least icy place to park. BIL forgot cane in car and almost fell!!!...See More
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