Archive for 'weather'
November 13, 2009
Happy Friday the 13th! Just had to post tonight to say that my youngest grabbed a broccoli stalk from a snack tray and started nibbling on it. Now he loves it all of a sudden. This is huge because he’s my junk food kid. My eldest tried it and gagged. I always expected him to [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2009 under watering/irrigation, weather.
Comments: 4
July 31, 2009
Wow, time sure flies. Long ago my mother called to say she was treating the family to an Alaskan cruise in recognition of all the hard work we put into rennovating their home. Of course we were in the middle of the process so it didn’t register at the time. Then, over the next few [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2009 under SWCs, beds, corn, harvest, planting, weather.
Comments: 5
July 29, 2009
YIKES! We hit a new all-time record here in the Seattle area. Our previous record temperature was 100 hit as recently as 1994. I personally recall playing tennis all day long in high school only to find out it hit 99, but that was when I was insane. I’m better now, hehe.
Well, today we shattered [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under SWCs, harvest, planning, tomatoes, watering/irrigation, weather.
Comments: 7
July 28, 2009
Wow, where has July gone? Sorry I haven’t posted, but it’s been just plain too hot to garden much. The later part of my vacation was spent on the garage, helping a friend move and playing at the pool with the kids. Alas, nowhere in there did I mention gardening. Well, that’s not quite true, [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under composting, polination, seed starting, tomatoes, watering/irrigation, weather.
Comments: 10
July 13, 2009
Wow, how the weather can change here in Seattle. My father used to say if you don’t like the weather here, wait 15 minutes, it will change. It hasn’t been that bad, but following a 90 degree Saturday, we’ve had two days of 60 degree overcast weather. It even rained, though that was welcome news [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2009 under SWCs, composting, planning, weather.
Comments: 5