How the Weather in Your Neck of the Woods?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....at last!! S-u-n-s-h-i-n-e!!! After two weeks+ of gray, rainy weather!
Today is one of those perfect days - 78F - that you wish would never end - and the birds agree!! They have been singing and tweeting their pleasure all day!! Made me smile all day, too...

 

farmlily3...it was also beautiful in NY...I think we are not going to have a spring ...I have a really pretty spring garden but not summer. I love listening to the birds sing

 

Lilacs blowing in the wind, Doves are in the backyard mulling about and we have full trees now with the greenest leaves ever! Tempuratures have been hubbering between 65 and 70 degrees. Sunny all day until the afternoon when rain rolls in for a hour or so washing everything clean, and then the Sun comes out again and dries everything off.
Hugs to everyone! Happy Spring!

 

Happy Spring...i need to visit there...LOL...love lilacs. my lilac is very small. my fave perennial are the bleeding hearts or some call them ballet slippers...i have those everywhere. Azaleas have bloomed and lilies in another month. i had planted a vegetable garden but am worried....bc the landscaper put mulch on top of it...even though i kept saying not where i an planting my garden...ugh hope they can push through

 

BeingStella, elimeno, love love love to hear about your beautiful gardens!!! You bring such lovely visions to mind!!
Lilacs are also a fav of mine, and I have a Lilac bush pruned into a small tree right outside my front door on the right side garden. Also have hydrangea, iris, daffodils, ferns, Lily of the Valley, daylilies, and astilbe in that garden. When the Lilac is in bloom, the scent is just heavenly! Add the Lily of the Valley scent, and I smile with every breath!
One year a cardinal nested in the Lilac!

On the left side of the front door is my beautiful soft pink 'Queen of Sweden' rose bush (a David Austin English rose), flanked by more iris. This rose was only supposed to grow to about 4 ft. tall...but it has grown to about 10 ft. tall!! My upstairs neighbor has it right outside her window! I do not know how that happened! I gave it a good start, with good fertilizer and frequent foliar feeding for the first year or two, but since then have pretty much neglected it...and it is on the east side, getting full sun only for the first half a day...
Also grew some pink, and white, Bleeding hearts by the rose bush. The first year they were spectacular, but then succumbed to a fungus or something the white one had brought home from the nursery. I felt like crying...they were really outstandingly beautiful...as such flowers are. They soothe our eyes and touch our hearts....

elimeno, Nature is tough, and mulch is good....your veggies should make it. Let us know how they do??

 

Thank you for your advice Well the weather allows and when June comes it force the students to get out of their homes and go swimming I just think sometimes the weather is our enemy during the exams. Who can focus when it gets 30 C and sees tourists enjoying their vacation? I will try to hold on and do my best and almost when June ends I will be free again

I chose to reply to you here so I won't spam the strategy thread.

 

Good luck Ariel. The exam season starts here this week so it's full on calming voice for me! Fortunately the weather is nice again so all the kids are outside revising (hopefully somewhere where 3G can't get to them!).

 

Thanks TC

 

Summer has come overnight, here in Massachusetts! One day it is too chilly to sit outside, even with a cup of coffee...and the very next day it reached 90+F!! A few days of this, and now it is back to the 70's (yes!! ). Crazy weather the last yr. or two....

elimeno, did your veggies make it? 'How does your garden grow'??

 

Lily, are you sure you're in Massachusetts? It sounds like you've been on vacation for the past few weeks over here in the Netherlands.
'nuf said.

 

After a few weeks of downpours almost daily, we are getting a few days with some sun. The flooding is pretty bad in spots, but nowhere near the flooding back in 1993. Smaller rivers have overflowed their banks, and the major rivers flowing through our twin cities are running really high. At this point we've had so much rain, even a light to medium rain starts the flooding all over again. Ugh!

EDIT: Oh no. More storms are coming. Flood warnings have been reissued. I am worried that all the standing water is going to let the mosquitos breed into horrific numbers. Oh....to have some of minglings bats here to gobble up those pesky things! LOL

 

MsTheaP I hope storms will not last for long. Stay safe...

 

Well we have had 3 sweltering days in the high 80's...in NY. Today was suppossed to be a cool down because of Tropical Storm Bonnie...but poof it missed us so it was hot and humid.
Romaine lettuce is growing well...I found one strawberry...the tomatoes in the pots are starting to sprout but everything else...nothing yet...worried...BUT I ordered some Alaskan wild strawberries...not sure if I mentioned it...they should be coming soon...cant wait

 

Wow!! elimeno, what a 'picture perfect', gorgeous, yummy looking strawberry!!!
And you grew that yourself! You have reason to be so proud! (Ahemhemhem...errr...I have this nice little garden by my deck that would love to welcome some cousins of that red, red, luscious, juicy......what kind is it, by the way?? An everbearing? A June crop??) That Romaine looks good, too. (Can you tell I haven't had lunch yet - and it's time for supper?!)


MsTheaP, Where are you from? Are you safe from the flooding???

 

Farmlily3....strawberry---reg hoping strawberry/like u get in the store...its amazing I got to it before the rabbits/raccoon/skunks. The Alaskan strawberries are about the size of your pinkie and yet so sweet and tasty. Cant wait for them to arrive. Well if nothing but the romaine grows, u are more than welcome...

MsTheaP, I hope you do ok...are u in a part that gets heavily flooded to the point of basement flooding/or evacs? u do want to be careful with mosquitoes with Zika

 

elimeno, from where do you order your wild Alaskan strawberries?? They sound like real strawberries...

 

Well believe it or not...Amazon.com I live in New York and had discovered them when I went to Alaska in 2011...yes I have been thinking about them that long...they are wild strawberries. They grow really well along rocky beds, they are often seen in forest when they are trying to rejuvinate damamged woods due to fire or some other catastrophe, they do great in droughts. U pick them as they grow and just pop them into your mouth
12 Qty Wild Strawberry Plants, Fragaria vesca
~Outside links not permitted~
PS...I have been wanting to grow purple carrots. Carrots I am a little nervous about...they seem so complex

 

How intriguing, elimeno! They sound like great BEAR food, too.....and we have bears around here!! Ones that like to raid bird feeders right in your back yard!!
But yummy! Those strawberries sound well worth growing!!
As for the carrots...(my Grandmother would say, "Nothing ventured - nothing gained!").....so why not just have fun with them, and enjoy what you will learn...yes?
What a special trip that must have been - Alaska!

 

I could use a trip to Alaska! It is Hot, hot and hot here in central CA!!!! It will be in the 100's all week (38 celcius).

 

well maybe we can do a farmerama greet and meet cruise

6/4 The weather here today was not so bad...ever have an experience that makes u go hmmm? Had a girls day--pedi, wax and massage--So maybe they should give me the bill 1st instead of undoing that 45 min massage but I keep looking at my hot pink toe's and say it was worth it...1st weekend u werent outsider mowing the lawn in extreme heat

Yikes just read above...sorry mods about the outside link...didnt realize