There are no safe topics. Everything leads to politics. "Global Warming" may have been misnamed it is a certainty that the weather is changing what may be in doubt is how much culpability we will admit to. Maybe it is not our fault but it probably is. It is true that we could do something about it but I wonder if we will? It is a fact that the weather is changing. Snow in April in some parts of this country! Crazy weather! We are missing rain in Oregon by more than half. "April showers bring May flowers" has always been true for Oregon and it has been know to rain through June. Normally our summer doesn't begin until the fourth of July and often we have an "Indian Summer", nice sunny days through September and into October.
It was 80 degrees yesterday. And the day before. We have three cloudy days forecast but no rain and then the ten day forecast is close to 80 degrees every single day. The gardening "rule" in Oregon has always been to get your garden planted by Memorial Day. That is the end of May! Summer is a month early! I normally harden off my tomato plants during the first two weeks of May, taking them from their protected environment of the greenhouse and exposing them to the real world a few hours at a time. Not so easy when the temperature is already in the eighties! Crazy weather!
Last year May was also nice but then June came and it was colder than normal and rained every day.
That sent my tomatoes into shock which they did not recover from until the end of July. What will happen this year? The weather man is always right in predicting the weather fifty percent of the time.
This has to be crazy hard for the farmer. Some parts of the country they can't plow because there is snow on the ground and other parts a veritable drought. Nuts.
On a different topic, do you have a juicer? It is the latest fad and my wife bought one last week.
It is pretty amazing really and has to be healthy. I go out in the garden and clip a few leaves of spinach
and Swiss Chard, different lettuces, some cabbage and nasturtium flowers. She adds some apples and a banana and juices it all up! Pretty cool! and all fresh from the garden. What do you like to juice? and after the thrill of the first two weeks, how often do you use it?
How is your weather?
You can see more of my garden here: http://www.ArtWanted.com/slate
It was 80 degrees yesterday. And the day before. We have three cloudy days forecast but no rain and then the ten day forecast is close to 80 degrees every single day. The gardening "rule" in Oregon has always been to get your garden planted by Memorial Day. That is the end of May! Summer is a month early! I normally harden off my tomato plants during the first two weeks of May, taking them from their protected environment of the greenhouse and exposing them to the real world a few hours at a time. Not so easy when the temperature is already in the eighties! Crazy weather!
Last year May was also nice but then June came and it was colder than normal and rained every day.
That sent my tomatoes into shock which they did not recover from until the end of July. What will happen this year? The weather man is always right in predicting the weather fifty percent of the time.
This has to be crazy hard for the farmer. Some parts of the country they can't plow because there is snow on the ground and other parts a veritable drought. Nuts.
On a different topic, do you have a juicer? It is the latest fad and my wife bought one last week.
It is pretty amazing really and has to be healthy. I go out in the garden and clip a few leaves of spinach
and Swiss Chard, different lettuces, some cabbage and nasturtium flowers. She adds some apples and a banana and juices it all up! Pretty cool! and all fresh from the garden. What do you like to juice? and after the thrill of the first two weeks, how often do you use it?
How is your weather?
You can see more of my garden here: http://www.ArtWanted.com/slate
