Snow journals
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24 May 2013
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Snow 0°C / 32°FI’m wondering when I will be able to sow and transplant seedlings outside. After many days of rain the ground is soaked with water and cold, and it’s snowing again. photos: today rain, sleet and snow
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Snow 2°C / 36°FThis morning… temperatures below zero, gusts of wind and snow. This is the end of May here in Nociveglia. Now the sky in turning blue, but it’s cold. (in the last photo, the mount Pelpi, where I live, seen from a window of the school where I work).
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Yellow Currant Flowering
02 May 2013
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Clear 2°C / 36°FAnother spring storm dropped 11.5" of snow in the yard yesterday… and on the flowers and plants trying to get growing. These yellow currant flowers are indicative of the struggles that the plants have been having this year. The snow and the cold temperatures set a record here. 11.5&quo...
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I measured an even 12" of snow on our table behind our house this morning. The crocuses have already declared that it is Spring here, but the snow has other ideas. The last I saw the daffodils they are up about 6 inches with big, fat buds. I suspect that they will emerge from the snow and bl...
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Spring crocus Blooming, Daffodils planted out on balcony Blooming, and Balcony garden
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2013
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Cloudy 4°C / 39°FThe Daffs are now flowering on my balcony. They began a couple of weeks ago but have been slow to open due to the decidedly unspring-like weather we have had during the last few weeks. These are the Daffs I planted in the white troughs on the balcony floor back in October 2012. The smaller Mini-D...
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Mar
2013
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Crocuses now out in full force
Daffodil 'Tete-a-tete' Blooming, Spring crocus Blooming, and Balcony gardenCloudy 4°C / 39°FThe Crocuses now out in full force on my balcony! :-)) They have been joined by the Mini-Daffs ‘Tete-a-Tete’ as the Crocuses are a bit behind this year. I haven’t got as good a showing as last year at present but when the cold wind & snow let up & we get a few warmer day...
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2013
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a weekend spring snow storm will drop 6 + inches of snowSnow -7°C / 20°F -
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Mar
2013
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You know you’re ready for spring when you feel like you should start talking back to the weather forecast… Weather Forecast: 15 to 20 centimetres of snow tonight through Tuesday. Me: No thank you. We have enough snow. Please refrain from snowing until December 1. Adequate and appropr...Sunny -7°C / 19°F -
Main garden
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Mar
2013
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Well, today was the day to direct-seed the beets outdoors. It’s snowing and pretty cold out there. I’m still new to this more hardcore style of gardening (I’ve never planted something outside before last frost) so I’m a little pensive about getting out there to plant. A...Snow -1°C / 31°F -
Paperbark Maple
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Mar
2013
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Sunny 9°C / 49°FI cannot wait for this Spring, we had such a hard winter. Now that plants are starting to poke their heads up and the snow is mostly melted, I’m actually starting to feel like Spring is on its way. Snowdrops, Winter Aconite, and some of the crocus are making a showing right now. It makes...
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Artichoke , Eastern Companion-Planted Vegetable garden , Zone 4 & 5 Forest garden , Northern Border garden...
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Mar
2013
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Light Snow 0°C / 32°F… out like a lamb? I hope so. It snowed on Wednesday, again yesterday, and again today. So it’s plan B on the cold frame search. Wait five weeks until the snow melts on its own. Start sprouts and microgreens indoors this weekend. It’s warm, which is a mixed blessing. I much pref...
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Zone 4 & 5 Forest garden
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Feb
2013
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I was getting worried about not seeing as many animal tracks this year, but conditions this week were just right and it appears the deer, hare, and other wild critters are still passing through or living in the area. Photos Snowshoe hare Deer Hare/rabbit ? Small rabbit (background) and somet...
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30 Jan 2013
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Goodbye Snow - Hello Mud, Mud Glorious Mud!
Crasula Ovata Budding, Lambs Lettuce Showing True Leaves, Lettuce 'Ciucca' Sprouting, Mesclun mix salad lea...Scattered Clouds 9°C / 48°FI did enjoy the snow while it was here, walking around the farm on the Friday afternoon (19th) revelling in such quiet, pristine beauty. Unfortunately I slipped on an old, snow-buried glass window pane, stretching out my left hand to save myself – which was forcibly pulled back resulting i...
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Sinningia leucotricha Budding, Mimosa 'Summer Chocolate' Growing, Astrophytum myriostigma var. quadricosta...
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Jan
2013
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Windy 8°C / 46°FYes, even the 12 inches we got up near Tom’s house, which made the drive from Grantham to Farnsfield an absolute nightmare (a lot of skidding and car-pushing), had completely disappeared thanks to the surprisingly warm Sunday and Monday. However, now it’s horrid and windy and rainy an...
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Allotment Plot 12A 2013 garden , Romaine lettuce 'Little Gem' , and Greenhouse 2013 garden
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Jan
2013
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Cloudy 6°C / 43°FToday I was able to get down to the allotments, to the greenhouse, to do an hour’s work! All the snow that had covered the ground for the last two weeks has finally gone away! I sowed a couple of rows of Lettuce ‘Little Gem’ in the greenhouse border today. Although it is a cold ...
