gardening: observing, planning, designing, and editing
What a dreary, dreary month. It’s…Novemberish. November has Thanksgiving, its saving grace, but it is gloomy, chilly, and daylight disappears noticeably. And here we are, in January, and it’s gloomy, chilly, and daylight has not reappeared because of the heavy cloud cover. And it snowed overnight; heavy, wet snow.
It is not your imagination—this is being posted in 2024. This post for July 2023 and the next, for September 2023, were drafted last year, but languished on my computer following an accident. I am mostly recovered, and finally have the bandwidth to take care of the fun, but nonessential, things in my life. I am dating this according to when the photographs were taken so that the posts land in the right spot in the timeline.
It seems like an odd time of year to see mushrooms, but we’ve had roughly 1 ½ inches of rain since July 11. We started the year with a rain deficit, then caught up on rain until May, which was quite dry. June was OK, but July has been unusually wet. Continue reading “Mushrooms in July!”
We had a 5¼-inch rain deficit from September–December 2022. It turned out to be the third-driest year of this century for us.
I was thinking that we started spring relatively well hydrated until I checked the local precipitation data through the National Weather Service. January–March had a rainfall surfeit of over 2½ inches, but that didn’t completely make up for last fall. It was enough rain at the right time to make the early spring plants happy, including the ginger.
