Took all weekend, with the heat, to get things arranged the way I wanted them. With typical Michigan aplomb, we went from spring to dead summer in a blink of an eye. Temperatures reached 90 F yesterday.
Come mid-summer, I won't even notice this kind of heat and humidity, but this early the heat and humidity are a huge impediment to garden progress. (and I know those who are south of me are laughing into their hands. hey. drive around in some snow storms and then we'll see who's laughing! ;D)
I waited too long to get the dirt delivered for the weekend, which in one aspect was a good thing. I needed to go slow and easy in moving all that stuff. No sense in giving myself a heart attack on prep work. They delivered it to the driveway this morning.
The bad thing? We are expecting the skies to open and dump rain at any moment, now. Sigh. The life of a gardener is mostly that of creatively working around obstacles, no?
And now it's raining, and I need to get some real work done in order to pay for my garden addiction!
I noticed a comment made in Sylvanna's post that you put your little "green squigglies" out for birds to feed on...now how nice are you!! I like to hear of kind gestures to all our visiting wildlife!! I hear you on the heat so quickly we are experiencing the same cannot keep up with the watering!! I do LOVE the smell of suntan lotion after our LONGGGGG winter!
Posted by: naturegirl | May 30, 2006 at 09:43 PM
When I find cutworms or grubs, I throw them on the driveway. It's a regular diner out there, and the birds fly by to check it out on a regular basis when I am in the garden.
I also have a large saucer that sits on the ground in the border next to the driveway that acts as a birdbath.
Posted by: jenn | June 01, 2006 at 10:49 AM
We down south surely aren't laughing at the misery of going from winter to summer with hardly a pause for spring. We share your pain...at least half of it. And we have no desire to share the other icy cold snowy half.
Rather than get used to the heat and humidity of early summer, followed by burning drought of late summer, I find it more difficult to face each year. At least I have fall and winter to look forward to. I don't envy you having to suffer the heat and then go on to freeziing cold at all.
Even though we hit 100 in April (unusual), this week it's been rainy and cool. I think it was only 82 today. Lovely.
Posted by: M Sinclair Stevens (Texas) | June 01, 2006 at 08:59 PM
Hey, thanks for the comraderie, M.
I try to remember to be careful about "oh, it's so HOT" - when it's 90, which is right hot for us, but others get worse... or "It's SO humid" when Michigan gets nothing like the oppressive damp of the steamy south.
I should have known that gardeners are side by side in lamenting sudden shifts of weather!
Too much or too little... there is a post there, I'll just have to remember to write it.
Posted by: jenn | June 01, 2006 at 09:12 PM