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

 

[Dahlia]

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 .

We had similar weather here. It was sunny and gorgeous for days and then yesterday it was windy and rainy most of the day.

 

[Marie2020]

We had similar weather here. It was sunny and gorgeous for days and then yesterday it was windy and rainy most of the day.

Same this end of our world. It heavily raining now. We had a dry spell an hour ago so managed too walk the dog.

 

[digitS']

Here I sit with my eyes on the internet — the temperature at the airport at 37⁰f (3⁰C) with the nearest Wunderground volunteers now hitting a degree f&c below that. I have been watching these numbers since 3AM.

Hoses and sprinklers laid out in the garden with some plants covered. It is a day that watering is planned but starting before sunrise ain't, unless required to deal with freezing. All in all, it's less challenging than needing to drive 17 miles to distant gardens and sitting the in pickup while running sprinklers. I did that so many years. And, at this point, I think that I may be able to wait for a more reasonable hour to put some water in the gardens.

Sheesh. It's hard to believe that we had so much sunny, warm weather with 81⁰f (27⁰C) 4 days previous and 49⁰f (9⁰C) for a high on the 16th. The warmth just blew away.

 

[Marie2020]

We are lucky here in comparison to you. Steve
12c feels like 10. but clouded over completely and due rain again. 66 humidity

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I'm in Paradise as far as weather goes. In San Jose CA. Its been beautiful every day. In a couple of days it will climb from the mid 70's to the low 90's. Sis and I are moving Mother from Assisted Living to Memory Care. She's 95.5 years old.