I had a four day weekend and enjoyed every minute spent in the garden - splitting and moving perennials and rhubarb, pruning dead wood from roses and raspberry canes, bundling up dead leaves ... and sitting out for afternoon teas. The two fragrant honeysuckles I grew from cuttings taken from a garden on Logan Avenue, which rooted a couple of years ago, are now well established climbers.
It's a horrid year for pollen ... I started using eye-drops a few weeks ago ... and I haven't used any in over 15 years. On the bright side, the allergies seem to make me cough a lot ... easier to get a seat for myself on the bus.
Not sure what forecast people here are looking at. Tomorrow looks dreadful, wind gusts up to 80 km/hr, cold and rain. Plus frost warning on Sunday and Monday nights. Perhaps I erred planting my tomatoes last weekend.
The rain is welcomed and much needed, the frost is not. Get those tomato plants indoors or you may lose them.
I've been seeing variety stores everywhere with their plants & wares out front for several weeks now but I stick to my guns and always wait until mid-May before I start planting, despite the overwhelming urge to do otherwise.
I might have to ... though the forecast now doesn't go below 1 degree Monday night ... and south of Danforth is normally a bit less frost-prone. Last year, I simply dropped a blanket over them one cold night (in late May!). I wonder how cold it would get for that to work ...
I don't know a lot about gardening, but you could just cover them for the night I think. I think you'd be safe not to though. There won't be any frost.
City of Toronto
10:44 AM EDT Sunday 09 May 2010
Frost warning for
City of Toronto issued
Extensive frost tonight.
This is a warning that at or near zero ground temperatures will cause frost in the parts of these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements.
Clear skies and light winds tonight will combine to allow temperatures to fall below the freezing mark overnight. The combination of freezing temperatures and light winds will produce widespread frost.
Note that while the City of Toronto is included in the frost warning..Frost is most likely in the suburbs.
Frost is likely to form again early Tuesday morning from the Golden Horseshoe to Ottawa.
Clear skies and light winds tonight will combine to allow temperatures to fall below the freezing mark overnight. The combination of freezing temperatures and light winds will produce widespread frost. Note that while the City of Toronto is included in the frost warning..Frost is most likely in the suburbs. Frost is likely to form again early Tuesday morning from the Golden Horseshoe to Ottawa.
How about those insane winds yesterday (Saturday)? I was heading up to Keswick to see my Mom for Mother's Day & had to turn around on Hwy. 7 & come home, I could barely keep the car on the road from the super intense wind gusts north of Sheppard - I've never had to do that before. I get home & call my mom and she tells me it was snowing up there! On the way home I encountered a fallen tree in the right southbound lane of the DVP and parts of trees down in the back yard of my building. Crazy stuff.
From my iPhone
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