Country Gardener

My husband said yesterday: "I'm so glad it's August and the beginning of the end of summer." A minority opinion, I'm s...

While my husband is off on a holiday attending a summer music school (furthering his violin-playing hobby), we email each other daily. I was...

In June I was concerned that we would have another dry summer. We didn't get enough rain through April and May , and that was exactly ho...

As you can see from the rainfall map that Agriculture Canada puts out, this season, which started out quite dry, is now nice and moist. The ...

Instead of the usual dreaded July drought, we are being treated to lots of rainfall. Last night's rolling thunderstorms - there were th...

I've been taking stock of the rain so far this spring, and we're in a deficit...again. After a winter of very good snowfall, the sec...

Here's what we got today: one and a quarter inches of rain. Put that together with the half inch we had early in the week, and it totals...

View from patio on our back hill - note brown lawn in background As many others were contending with record rainfall and flooding, we staye...

If you're a weather geek like me, and you live in Ontario, you may be interested in the link below. It takes you to a summary of precipa...

When it comes to drought, I don't know who suffers more, me or the plants. When it gets really hot and dry, I actually get what I call d...