Otherwise, there is no spring lettuce or spinach, peas, or broccoli. Spring crops must be in the ground by mid-February, then protected from late cold snaps by garden fabric tunnels. I’ve learned to start my gardens earlier than I did twenty years ago. Now I find myself praying for the many giant trees that surround me, asking that they withstand winds that bend them nearly in half during violent storms.Īs a lifelong gardener, I do still pray for those storms to come, because my thirsty green charges need the water now more than ever. As a child, I never feared thunderstorms. Weather patterns are more extreme, alternating earth-parching droughts with flooding downpours punctuated by large hail and terrifying winds that throw trees to the ground. Climate change brings excessive heat by mid-spring, and dangerous heat by early summer. These days, my feelings about the summer season are mixed. Red-shouldered Hawk extracting its earthworm breakfast.
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