weather in the garden #135

33 and cloudy. breezy too.

Mid forties worked fine for raking, mulching, trimming and dressing the plants. Lots of pots got stacked and most hoses are put away now. I'm trying to look a little pulled together for Thanksgiving. So far, 13 at table but I invited one more.

Good for you!

We got here today, good thing I got everything put away before. Even though it wasn't so cold today, everything is frozen. Tonight we're expecting 20 tonight and a high of 27 tomorrow. Brrrrrr...

lot's of raking left here to do - got 5 beds done, planted a bunch of allium and gave one bed 4 wheel barrels full of compost mixed with wood ask to help the soil.

tomorrow will be cold, will be out early and should be able to clean up the rest of the beds in the upper back yard - still have the way back to do, a mountain of leaves back there.

16 degrees here now, 15.6 overnight low, and a light dusting of snow. Brrrrrr...

21 overnight and still only 22 now. I'm still digging as many wheelbarrows of rotten wood mulch as I can on weekends, but today, I think maybe not. My peony beds always get the stored fireplace ashes in the spring. Maybe they'll turn into potatoes if I'm not careful :)

25° & an evil wind I have no idea what the wind chill factor is.

It's gotta be pretty low. This is no day for unnecessary outside tasks. On the brighter side, I've repotted the indoor plants and started indoor tasks.

Today would be brutal by January standards....in November it's appalling! Couldn't walk on the dam because of the high winds......my great blue heron weather vane is on the front lawn!

toughen up ladies! outside all day got most of the beds done have three left in the way back and mowed the rest up - hoping it we will be warmer next weekend so I can go back and weed. Still have some rock wall to finish up

Bill, your temperature zone is lower than a camellia japonica and about at the tolerance of the c. oleiferas.

I waited until AFTER buying groceries to move the pots into my garage. They were frozen to the deck in the most protected corner by the front door. I think the buds may have blasted on the japonicas and their leaves have lost their sheen --just in a few hours. With gardening I am a daredevil I guess. Here they are sitting on a humidity tray in their "hospital," the unheated garage under our house.

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We have a pine tree with 2 trunks & one split & fell into the tree next to it. May have to have someone fell it. (the one side).

Sorry about the bother for you. Lots of wind yesterday.

That's why I cut down all my pines, Lucy....they were getting very brittle, & splitting trunks & dropping huge branches.....Bill, cannot believe you were out on such a wicked day! Winds are calm right now, cold, but warming up to 30 for the high....yippee.....

Still only 18 when we left an hour ago.

it was pretty cold and windy - just kept moving to stay warm - gotta get those leaves up before the first snow

Thought of you today, Bill, when I cooked up a pot of potato leek soup!

35 and cloudy

I love white pines! they are hard to keep up, its true. If I build any garden structures back there where mine are, they will have to have roofs and post and beam construction :) because i don't want to have anyone sitting out there to admire the view when a limb comes crashing down. Ash trees are like that too. it's a safety hazzard to work outside in high winds like we had this weekend as the cold front came in.

need to make some marilyn - plenty of leeks out there in the garden

do you really like white pines?

I also like the mulch they leave and a great space to grow smaller evergreens.

Overnight low was 16 F temp rapidly rising to 34 already.

I liked my white pines......great for the birds, & the needles....I was sorry to see them go.....I actually have one small one left, but I know it has to go, too.....the leek soup was delish, Bill!

32° 0vercast

We have scattered white pines. We have lived here for 40 yrs & this is just the 2nd time difficulty with the pines. We lost the top of our tulip tree (which we planted) but it has grown back.

Yes, tulip trees are brittle also....growing up, we had one in our yard, but my Dad had to cut it down. Raining here......not windy, just gray & steady rain. Funny temps.....48 at my house when i went to walk the dog around 9......middle of town was 51, other side of town was 55.....back to 48 when I got home!

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61° here now & still raining. We must have over an inch of rain by now. Still windy, but not the high wind of last night.

I thought about brittleness this spring when I planted a tulip tree by the ash trees which are clearly doomed to disease within a few years. They grow so fast it is hard to beat that. One look at the roots and it's clear they are survivers, too.

We are on the edge of their hardiness, but ours is doing well.

Sunny & 30 for today......no snow on the ground & that's what I'm thankful for on this day!

cold again, but dry & wind is dying down.

There was some snow on the ground in Goshen yesterday, but just cold & sunny here......32 the high for today & tomorrow......very cold November!

Overnight low to 21 F and now 26. Burr. DS, undaunted, is off the the annual alumni race for his hs.

was cold out there today - got the rest of the needed raking done and burlap-ed a few shrubs. tomorrow hoping to finish a rock wall

29° A part of the family is visiting & raked leaves etc. Nice to have free help.

Went down to 10 last night....brutal for this time of year.....warming to about 32....watching the big, red-bellied woodpecker dig for the nuts in the feeder.......

29 and sunny

The low during the week was 12.7, 27 now.

It's still pretty in the snow, Pam.
Our overnight low was 12 F and now it's 34.
We started our first fire in the fireplace today.

first fire? :) we've been having fires for several weeks now.

finished the wall - took much longer than it had to be as I was short the smaller rocks that lock everything in place and keep the chippies from moving in.

then chipped down the top of a vertical post to hold a large roundish stone covered in lichens - now to find a bed to set this up in - none of those bright colored balls here.........

We're cozy in the library with the pellet stove. It's been dark for ages. I'm bringing journals up to date, found a lot of old notes from the first couple of years I was here. Lots of plans for Roundup, declared war on bittersweet, goldenrod, tradescantia, raspberries, Apios Americana- a nasty vine with long strings of tuberous roots -and ferns in the wrong places. Something's working, I rarely need it any more.