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Many years ago, when I first started my Web site, I created an online diary of my gardening activities and observations. However, with work and the commute from Hell, I was often so tired I had to choose between maintaining my garden and maintaining my diary. Sometimes, I did neither. In 1998, I stopped my diary and removed the pages from my Web site.
Now I am retired. I am well-rested and have plenty of time to both garden and maintain a diary. So here it is.
Also see What's Blooming in My Garden Now?
Entries are in reverse order (latest at the top). Daily, I might stoop to pull a weed or use a hose to water some potted plants; however, I don't consider those significant gardening activities. Thus, you will not see daily entries. Also, I might accumulate a few entries before updating this page on the Web.
When plants have well-known common names, their scientific names are given only the first time they appear on this page (entry closest to the bottom). There, the common name is in bold.
Dates refer to other entries in the same year (but perhaps a different page) as the entry in which they appear unless a different year is given.
This diary has been visited 6866 times since I started it.
| Date and Weather | Observations and Activities |
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| 5 March
Mostly cloudy, some hazy sun, and cool Temp: 42-64
Rain —
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In anticipation of another rain storm, I fed the back yard. I put two pinches of ammonium sulfate around each wax-leaf begonia in the raised bed around the dwarf tangelo. I then fed the lawn and most beds, using the same house brand of lawn food that I used in front (28 Feb).
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| 4 March
Started with scattered clouds, hazy sun, and cold
Temp: 41-63
Rain —
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Trimmed the edges of the pink clover (Persicaria capitata) lawn in the front. It was beginning to smother the wax leaf begonias along the brick walkway.
Gave the dwarf ivy (Hedera helix 'Hahn's') on the mail box a "hair cut". I also trimmed the ivy around the liquidambar tree (L. styraciflua), which was beginning to invade the pink clover lawn. Weeded the parkway near the mail box. Cut back the red Penstemon in back, at the north end of the east bed. The pink Penstemon that I previously cut (18 Feb) already has new shoots. |
Weather data are from the Cheeseboro (CHE) weather station, a little less than 1.2 miles ENE of my house.
The high temperature (°F) is daytime for the indicated date; the low temperature (°F) is for the night ending on that date.
The relative humidity is at noon. (In my garden, it is likely higher than reported, a result of regular irrigation.)
Wind speeds (mph) are average (not peak) low and high, midnight to midnight (subject to later correction for diary entries posted before the end of the day).
Rain is in inches. Rain amounts are omitted after 60 consecutive days elapse without any measurable amount.
Season is the cumulative amount of rainfall since the start of the current rainy season, which began on 13 Oct 2009 with the first measurable rain in 129 days, until noon on the indicated date.
Week is the cumulative amount of rainfall from noon seven days ago until noon of the indicated date. If no rain fell in that period, Days since last is reported.
Characterization of the weather (e.g., Clear, sunny, and warm) is purely subjective; for example, "warm" might occur with higher temperatures than "hot" if the former occurs with lower humidity and more breezes than the latter. Also, a day that would normally be characterized as "mild" might instead be "warm" if the immediately previous days were quite cold.
The signature line I use when writing messages about my garden includes the following:
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