Veggie Garden

[DAG]

Wow! Audra, there was I thinking what terrible weather we have at the moment until I saw that and now I shall go out singing and dancing in the rain!........I can just hear the music now!

Fantastic pictures, never heard of an ice storm on land, only of ships that have been sunk at sea by it.

for sharing Audra, just thinking that your weather seems to belong to another planet!

[kedigato]

Great winter pics, Audra, , but what bad damage done to the trees!

Your summer temps seem to be higher than in Florida where we have a house. 90°F seems to be the usual where we live, sometimes going a few degrees higher. This week it will be 89 - 91°F with thunder storms, usually in the afternoon. It is the Hurricane season there now. They come up quite suddenly but disappear just as quickly and everything dries up fast as well.

[pete]

Thankyou Audra, I had a feeling you got the extremes when it comes to weather.
The ice and snow looks awful, but I guess your used to it.

You do well in what you grow, I guess its a matter of picking the crops that do well in such summer heat.
Gives us a good idea as to why we struggle to grow such plants as pumpkins over here.

Thanks for the info on zipper peas.

If we get two days in a row of 80F we are calling it a heat wave ;D

[shadowdragon]

Kedi, we aren't even the most extreme. Missouri and Arkansas have been seeing heat indexes of 120 and more. Oklahoma gets far more ice than we do. And the Dakotas and Minesota get far more snow, the kind where you have to shovel the roof off or it will collapse under the weight.

I am thinking that maybe Florida doesn't get quite as hot because it juts out into the sea? We had two days last week were 109 and 110 actual temps. Everything looks kind of wilty and we have to work extra hard to keep the outdoor critters cool. We got all the way dwn to 90 one day and it was so lovely.

Luckily, this year we have been spared a lot of the real severe weather here. But in years past we have had our garden pounded flat by golf ball sized hail. And of course tornadoes are always a threat in the spring and early summer.

Kansas and the other plains states are definitely the land the extremes. We are here now but what possessed pioneers, dressed in layers of clothing, to stop here and say "hay this is a great place to stop, lets build a mud hut and stay" completely baffles me. Between the extreme heat and cold, the almost complete lack of trees at the time, the stickers,the hail, the tornadoes, and the scalp happy natives, the only conclusion I can draw is that they had completely lost their minds and were quite mad.

Although I can say that the prairie has its own subtle beauty with extravagant skies and spectacular weather displays for any willing to live with the extremes.

I still miss Seattle.