Let’s Get Gardening! I haven’t heard anybody complaining about the weather we’ve been having lately – ok, yesterday wasn’t so great, but we’ll be back in the 70’s again at the end of this week! My only complaint is that I seem to have done something to my knee, which has kept me from getting any work done outdoors in …
Let’s Get Gardening! Well, apparently Mother Nature took the calendar seriously this year – the calendar said it was fall, so we got fall! We went from a high of 81° on the last day of Summer to a high of 58° the very next day (at least at my house, the cities may have made it into the 60’s), …
Let’s Get Gardening! Mother Nature sure has a sense of humor. Immediately after I said, in last month’s newsletter, that the main thing we all needed to be doing for our gardens was watering, she started sending us lots of rain! I think I only watered my vegetable garden once or twice the whole month, and didn’t water anything else …
Let’s Get Gardening! Last month was way below average in rainfall, which made keeping things watered really difficult. Typically, the Ann Arbor area gets a little more than 3.5 inches of rain in July. This year, Ann Arbor got about 1.5 inches. That wouldn’t be too terrible, except that our average rainfall for June is also generally around 3.5 inches, …
Let’s Get Gardening! When I’m working on a newsletter, I like to look back at what I wrote in prior years, to make sure that I am not forgetting to tell you something this time. It also happens to be a great way for me to remember what was going on those years – especially when it comes to the …
Let’s Get Gardening! I don’t know about you, but I could use a little more sunshine than we’ve gotten lately! April was a bit too gloomy for my taste, and didn’t really give me much opportunity to get out into my yard and gardens. Here’s hoping May makes up for that! Jennifer In this month’s issue of Let’s Get Gardening …
Let’s Get Gardening! In spite of the weather the last week or so, there are definite signs of spring showing up all over – the snowdrops that come up every year in one yard I pass on my way to the store, the pussy willow I saw just the other day starting to break open in another yard, and the …
