ann arbor! can you believe it? there is a frost warning for tonight…
cover your tender annuals…including your precious tomatoes.
of course, you can always call pot & box for a fall clean up!
Posts Tagged as ‘weather’
September 30, 2009
frost warning tonight
March 30, 2009
pay no attention to the white stuff in the garden…
i had a mild meltdown yesterday
when i saw the snow flurrying,
continuing to flurry,
then actually sticking to roofs,
and cars,
and dogs.
but here’s something hopeful:
good for today & tomorrow only!
this coupon
for a FREE pack of seeds
at downtown home & garden…
my favorite garden store in town!
March 13, 2009
ann arbor, start your gardens…
two glorious things happened yesterday:
1. i spotted some daffodils breaking ground.
if it were up to me, i would shift our calendar a month and a half forward to celebrate new year’s day on march fifteenth. firstly, it’s my birthday, which is a day everyone should be celebrating anyway. secondly, spring is so much more in [...]
June 6, 2008
summertime pinks, summertime yellows
…sometimes I wonder what I’m a- gonna do
’cause there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues…
ok, i’m callin’ it…summer is here. this morning, when i dipped a spoon into the raw honey jar, it was liquid. it’s hot, it’s humid, it’s muggy. yup, it’s michigan in june.
things are blooming, and they’re blooming fast:
peonies!
zinnias!
honeysuckle!
thalictrum!
alyssum!
so, if you [...]
May 27, 2008
frost warning tonight…
there is a frost warning tonight for ann arbor and the majority of southeast michigan…
watering can insulate sensitive plants from temperature dips, and covering them with ‘frost blankets’ is extra insurance. be sure to place stakes higher than the plants to keep the blanket from touching them, which can leave leaves and flowers vulnerable to [...]
May 23, 2008
t.g.i.f.f….
thank goodness it’s frost-free!
though it still feels chilly, we are in the clear. i celebrated our last average frost-free date by planting my new, lovely herb bed, complete with eggplant and basil seedlings–which we’re promptly nipped by the cold nights this week. did i really hope to make the first eggplant pesto parmesan in [...]
April 14, 2008
finally…
when i wrote my first post three weeks ago, i did so with the intent to document spring’s arrival… but instead, i worked on my first blister (aka raking the yard,) stretched my calves (aka pulling perennial weeds,) & tweaked my back (aka finally extracting those tenacious weed-tree stumps from the garden beds.) so, after [...]
March 21, 2008
happy anniversary, pot & box…
this week last year, i filed my dba certificate, and since then i have been doing business as pot & box…i find it hard to believe that i will be gardening again soon, but i did spot my first snowdrops the day before we got 6-10 inches of snow. not-so coincidentally, it’s the first week [...]
