Garden Weather

Current weather in the garden
temp: 50.5 F (10.3 C)
humidity: 46%
wind: From the ENE at 4.0 MPH Gusting to 6.0 MPH
pressure: 29.50" (998.9 mb)
station: KILWHEAT3
Last Updated on March 12, 3:42 PM CST

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  • sad day. had my last dram of Sazarac 18 :( 17 hrs ago
  • 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! 5 days ago
  • anybody played with one of these? http://j.mp/ahZR3h possible 'dash cam' for storm chasing? Mentioned by Cris Novy at Dupage svr wx conf 5 days ago
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Does it really take all the fun out of composting?

Over on Rosemarie’s Garden blog she has a post about the ‘new’ electric composter intended to be used in/under/around the kitchen.   She outlined several reasons why she dislikes the idea.  Given that I have one of those on my ‘gift list‘ I thought I’d respond with the reasons why I like the idea of an [...]

New Web Cam

Just a heads up that I’ve added a web cam to the website. It points at the garden and updates every minute.

Nifty!

What I’ve learned so far

In the last 35+ years I’ve learned several things about the world. Some of them I’ve seen described by others and by experience I find them to be true. Thus, these are not all my original ideas or wording…but they are soo true.

There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness”
You should not [...]

Seeds of Change Garden

It just so happens that the Seeds of Change catalog came today and it had every seed item I wanted. So this year I’m going with a 100% Seeds of Change garden.  Which also means all the seeds are 100% Organic stock. $72 dollars later. On the pricey side but the seed [...]