While I’m glad we had a real winter in southeast Michigan this year, with no major early warmups, I’m ready to say farewell to wind chills in the single digits, snow showers, and temperatures over 40 degrees Fahrenheit we’ve had in the past week. I was thrilled to see more signs of spring show up… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Welcoming Signs of Spring
Brrr! It was four degrees Fahrenheit with the wind chill when I woke up two days ago in southeast Michigan. The ground was frozen, even if there wasn’t a lot of snow.
Hard to think it’s time for gardening, but it is! For winter sowing gardening, that is.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Winter Sowing 2025
In 2013, as part of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), I chronicled my goal of picking lettuce from my garden on Thanksgiving Day in southeast Michigan.
Not an easy goal, given our nighttime November temperatures were often in the mid-teens (Fahrenheit).
And a trip to Florida in mid-November that year meant I had to rely on a heavy mulch of leaves to protect the lettuce while I was away.
It worked! Eleven years ago today, I picked lettuce for our Thanksgiving holiday meal!
This year, I did the same thing. But not intentionally.
Continue reading 11 Years Later and I’m Once Again Picking Lettuce on Thanksgiving Day