Garden Weather

temp: 35.6 F (2.0 C)
humidity: 64%
wind: From the East at 3.0 MPH Gusting to 6.0 MPH
pressure: 1026.0 mb
station: KILWHEAT3
February 4, 7:13 AM CST

Recent Photos

Ever used “fatwood”?

So it’s 28 degrees outside with a very light snow fall and my wife’s family is up for the thanksgiving holiday.  I enjoy making and having fires in my house and have come to love our double sided fireplace that is the center of our house.  I found this interesting product at one of [...]

Decided to plant raspberries

My wife and I have decided to plant the remainder of our driveway fence line with ‘Heritage’ raspberries.  We’ve never grown raspberries so this should be interesting. From what I’ve researched the ‘Heritage’ variety is the most popular world wide and is one of the varieties recommended for Northern IL by the extension office.  [...]

Get that emergency kit ready

Now that we’ve had a week of near freezing temperature I’ve resigned myself to the fact that my vegetable garden is dead.  But what that reminded me of was that I had not reviewed my car emergency kit lately.  After moving to Chicago about a year ago it has been in the back of [...]