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ReaperDragon4
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So... IRL i'm an avid gardener with designs on eventually making money off it. I strongly believe that Gardeners are key to fighting both poverty and climate change.
Which is why the late "heatwave" this december has me so distressed. I'm going to put my observations of what nature is doing down and I'd like to hear the same from others in the USA particularly the east coast as well as what nature is doing in western europe particularly UK, Iceland, Netherlands, Sweeden and other climes on the shore near where the Atlantic Northern Conveyor cools off and dives south.
Strange nature stuff in my area
1. Garlic shoots coming up in my garden - Garlic is a bulb, you plant it in the fall and it shouldn't start sprouting till spring the next year. Like literally the same things you do for tulips you do for garlic. These garlic cloves put out two stems about an inch or two out of the ground each and stayed there. The garlic was planted near kale to protect it from pests in the winter and early spring when its at its peak growth.
2. Actively reproducing earthworms - these guys should be sleeping come the killing frost in early november. They aren't, in fact I'm finding babies.
3. Compost piles unseasonably active - These are not "hot piles" which give off steam in cold weather, these are cold piles kept in buckets and an old kitchen garbage can. They should also be frozen solid, the earthworms sleeping in their holes and the air pockets I made inside for them. Instead, I can smell the smell of decomposing soggy compost, an odor that faintly smells of bog.
4. My shovel can hit the bottom - These are container garden beds made from sterilite containers and scrap wood, as well as two earth box brand planter beds. My shovel can hit the bottom of all of these.
5. Finally, i can walk barefoot. - Its a rainy dark december afternoon. Two or three hours ago I walked out there barefoot in thin pajama pants and a t-shirt.
I'm concerned this will lead to a drought, and I've seen articles indicating the unseasonal weather has reached from where I am in Western MA to Texas. So what are gardeners and nature loving types seeing around the atlantic and pacific coasts and the gulf? And what are gardeners and nature loving types across the proverbial pond seeing?
Which is why the late "heatwave" this december has me so distressed. I'm going to put my observations of what nature is doing down and I'd like to hear the same from others in the USA particularly the east coast as well as what nature is doing in western europe particularly UK, Iceland, Netherlands, Sweeden and other climes on the shore near where the Atlantic Northern Conveyor cools off and dives south.
Strange nature stuff in my area
1. Garlic shoots coming up in my garden - Garlic is a bulb, you plant it in the fall and it shouldn't start sprouting till spring the next year. Like literally the same things you do for tulips you do for garlic. These garlic cloves put out two stems about an inch or two out of the ground each and stayed there. The garlic was planted near kale to protect it from pests in the winter and early spring when its at its peak growth.
2. Actively reproducing earthworms - these guys should be sleeping come the killing frost in early november. They aren't, in fact I'm finding babies.
3. Compost piles unseasonably active - These are not "hot piles" which give off steam in cold weather, these are cold piles kept in buckets and an old kitchen garbage can. They should also be frozen solid, the earthworms sleeping in their holes and the air pockets I made inside for them. Instead, I can smell the smell of decomposing soggy compost, an odor that faintly smells of bog.
4. My shovel can hit the bottom - These are container garden beds made from sterilite containers and scrap wood, as well as two earth box brand planter beds. My shovel can hit the bottom of all of these.
5. Finally, i can walk barefoot. - Its a rainy dark december afternoon. Two or three hours ago I walked out there barefoot in thin pajama pants and a t-shirt.
I'm concerned this will lead to a drought, and I've seen articles indicating the unseasonal weather has reached from where I am in Western MA to Texas. So what are gardeners and nature loving types seeing around the atlantic and pacific coasts and the gulf? And what are gardeners and nature loving types across the proverbial pond seeing?
