Your Weather, 2026

[Rillowen]

It's 81⁰f (27⁰C). Warmest day of the year and 15⁰f above the normal high for the day.

Thinning beets yields a vegetable right at the top of my favorites. You might want to try starting beets in potting soil and transplanting.

if it's beet roots you especially enjoy, chard would be a miss. If you do not like the heavy stems of chard, i can well understand that, @Rillowen . I like Verde De Taglio chard. It has thin stems and tasty leaves.

I dont mind the stems as much honestly, but salad type leaves I have an abundance of. My favorite being mustard greens. I have purple lettuce, turnip greens, endive, horseradish greens, sweet potato leaves ect. I had purple kale but I didn't like the taste. For some reason I can't seem to get cabbage to grow, maybe I'm mistaking the sprouts for weeds. That's part of why I love my purple lettuce, its unmistakable!
It is indeed the beet root I am wanting. I even splurged and spent 5$ on 10 giant mangonel beet seeds this year, planted then 4 different ways at 3 different times... not a one. I only had 2 i even found a sprout! I think maybe the voles just eat the sprouts as soon as they show. The 1 that made it a while i put under a bottle, but the other 5 I did that with never showed. I grew some last year in the front garden bed, but even there only 1/5 of my seeds produced crop, but i found out near the end they dint like mustard, so i remived the mustard and the ones that were left took off. This year I thought i would be better because i was conscientious of what to plant it with, not a one. All my seeds are gone.

I thought beets hated transplant, which is why I didn't try pots. At this point if I manage to get more seeds I'll definitely try in some larger pots, and maybe just let them stay there!

 

[heirloomgal]

Rain. Lots of rain, but tomorrow looks good at 16C/61F . Feeling some hope right now.

 

[digitS']

Quite a contrast between Tuesday afternoon's sunny 81⁰f (27⁰C) and what we have had since.

Wind gusts to 48mph ... random rain showers ... it is 44⁰f (7⁰C) at 3:30AM.

Had the lawn and gardens watered by the time the highest winds showed up because the prediction of rain totals amounting to near nothing were rightly assumed to be correct. The plastic film over the hoophouse will need some more attention. I had to reinforce the bricks holding it down on the windward side during the worst of it .

 

[ducks4you]

COLD May