Archive for March, 2008

Ups and Downs of Spring

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Spring doesn’t simply appear on a Monday morning;  it creeps up on us in little steps.  The only reliable parts of the spring process are the lengthening days and the changing position of sunrise and sunset.  The vagaries are mainly temperature changes, dryness or rain, or even snow.  We get a few days of 80 […]

Scheduling Gardening Activities

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Here we are in the middle of March.  The statisticians tell us (or they used to tell us before Global Warming was a buzz-word) that we have two more days to March 15 which they said is the date of the last killing frost, so gardeners can safely go ahead with their summer gardens.
Of course, […]


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