Gardening season seems to keep going and going around here this year (I know – I said last month that it had pretty much come to an end, but who knew it was going to stay so warm for so long?!) – which is a good thing for me, since I only just got my garlic planted on Monday! I’m …
I have to admit that I nearly cried in the grocery store yesterday, because I had to buy tomatoes. It made me realize that summer is truly over, and I am doomed to have tasteless tomatoes for months and months. This is what is truly most sad about summer ending. While no consolation for the end of summer, The Old Farmer’s Almanac …
What kind of weird September weather was that?! We had late-September weather at the beginning of the month and more like July weather towards the end. Late September should be a time for cool-temperature plants to be happily growing and producing, but the lettuces that I planted in late August suffered from the excessive heat, and some of my arugula …
I can’t tell you how grateful I am for the rain we got this week! I have been dragging hoses and sprinklers around and filling up tree gators since June, because we have had almost no rain at all at my house. Chelsea has gotten some significant rain events this summer that just totally skipped past the Manchester area – …
This summer has been almost ideal for vegetable gardening. It has been pretty consistently warm, but not too hot. Ann Arbor only officially hit 90 degrees once in July (though we came close once or twice more). The high, but not too high, temps really have produced some serious tomato, pepper, eggplant and bean plants in my garden, though the …
My apologies for the delay in getting the July newsletter to you – I seem to be a little behind in many things, especially my weeding! I hadn’t gotten to one of my flower beds for a number of weeks, and it looked like a jungle when I finally did. I spent hours cutting down and pulling weeds, and carted …
How did it get to be June already?! I have no idea where the first five months of this year went – especially the last 31 days. In April, when we were getting temps in the 70’s and 80’s, I thought I would have my entire garden planted by mid-May. Then May came along, and we had temperatures more like …
Well, the weather lately has been living up to its reputation in Michigan – unpredictable! We had fabulous, warm, sunny, weather for a little bit, sandwiched in between some chilly (ok – cold) wet stuff. It may not seem like it now, but the weather gurus are saying that this May will be warmer and dryer than normal. Don’t get …