Garden Weather

Current weather in the garden
temp: 46.4 F (8.0 C)
humidity: 59%
wind: Calm
pressure: 29.50" (998.9 mb)
station: KILWHEAT3
Last Updated on March 10, 9:14 PM CST

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  • just reserved a landscape camera lense and picked up a belt system for my camera gear at Calumet for CoD stormchase next month. I'm all set! 3 days ago
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Last week + First frost is here!

Time to break out the frost protection and/or take your last harvest.  If it doesn’t frost tonight, it will tomorrow.  And there’s a possibility of a hard freeze and snow at that!

 

I took the opportunity between 40mph wind gusts to run out and do my last harvest of beans and green tomatoes. Wind chill was down to [...]

Where is our first frost?

Much like the past 5 months, the weather in the Chicago area has been…shall we say…abnormal. More rain than normal and below average temperatures made for a fabulous growing season for the home gardener. But all good things must come to an end. This growing season has been holding on for much longer than I [...]

Pack a lunch and save $600 a year?

For the past 2 years I’ve been spending roughly $8-$10 a day on lunch.  Sometimes less, sometimes more..but that’s about the average. I should know…I was on a budget

In conjunction with taking the train (see last post) I’ve started taking my lunch to work instead of buying.  I did some notepad calculations this [...]

The switch to public transportation

For the past 2 years I’ve been commuting from Wheaton to the northern edge of Chicago proper in my 2001 Subaru Outback wagon.  My day job recently moved their facilities to downtown Chicago, about 4 blocks from Ogilvie Station.  I had been waiting for this move for some time, as it allows me to take [...]

2008 U-Pick Apple Trip

We spent the last 3 days up in the Lake Geneva area of Wisconsin, just over the border from Illinois.  It’s a beautiful 1 1/2 hour drive from Wheaton, IL through some of the best farm country in the nation. (though not the most beautiful, that’s reserved to south west Wisconsin/north west Illinois/north east [...]