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The Benefits of Snow in the Garden
This nitrogen (and trace amounts of ammonia) isn't present in a significant measure, however every little bit helps.Warm winter days can trigger plants to break dormancy too early and when temperatures return to normal, they suffer as a result.
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Frost and How It Forms
Frost -- or the lack of it -- determines both the end and the beginning of our growing seasons. In contrast, a night sky containing low clouds essentially creates a blanket over the earth.
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This Winter\'s Storms: Preview of a Coming Ice Age?
Many have died of freeze, especially old and sick people, or peopleliving on the street. My friends were worried if they will be fine, especially the conifers. It would have been nice if the authorities had announced it long before it happened, so people...
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Amazing nature: Spring comes to my garden
Some of the branches have dried off - hopefully, not all the plant will die, but only the damaged stalks. The weeds' roots seemed to have died off because of the deep freeze, so my colleagues method, of digging and turning the weeds' roots upside down...
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Weather for Gardeners - Warm and Cold, Humid and Dry
Weather conditions are extremely important to us as gardeners. In this group of articles I'm going to help you understand some of the "what" and "why" of weather phenomena. If you've ever wondered why, after a clear, sunny and mild day, you have to prepare...
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Weather for Gardeners - Greenhouse gases and the Greenhouse Effect
In this way, the heat energy accumulates rather than being lost to space..Since the Industrial Revolution began, human activity has added measureable amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide to the atmosphere.
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Poems for a summer afternoon
Traveling down a side road that runs through wetlands, I suddenly notice that the swamp milkweed and the swamp roses have begun to bloom, sure signs that summer is progressing quickly towards its climax.
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Snowflakes: Singular Wonders
In 1611, mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler published “On the Six-Cornered Snowflake,” the first-known scientific treatise on snow crystals. Other factors affecting the size and shape of a snowflake include wind speed, air currents and the...
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Icicles and ice
If you're making a gingerbread house, by all means add icicles made from icing; they're the epitome of cute for a ski chalet. Repeated thawing and refreezing forms a the familiar carrot-shaped tapered cylinder of ice, with a drip(You can see strangely...
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Tried and True... or Tried and False - Weather Sayings
Contrails are partly composed of water vapor, and the more moisture there is in the air, the longer and wider the contrails will be.- "White Christmas, green Easter - green Christmas, white Easter" I learned this one after I moved from Pennsylvania so...
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Let your plants help your home be hurricane safe!
While the suggestions that follow are geared towards people living in Florida or other areas where the plants and trees mentioned can grow, the general idea can be implemented with other durable trees and plants as well.To begin, you need to know first...
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If the world is getting warmer, why is it so cold?
Here in Boston, we've had so many snow days that "professional days" are being replaced with school days; our schools aren't air conditioned so school in July is unappetizing. Maybe the earth is just going through a mid-life crisis.
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Winter in Bucharest isn\'t what it used to be
Winter in the city can be as fun as in any other place and we all should allow play like children from time to time. We would gather inside the hallway of our apartment building and stay near the huge heater; we'd put our gloves on the heater and chat...
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Long-Lost Plants - \
Well, not quite . Landfall, enjoying the sunshine, gentle breeze and lush view of all my garden as I looked around. I remember how neighbors would plan "hurricane parties" with candles ready in case the power went out for a few hours.The summer of 1992...
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Chilling Injury and Cold Damage - Knowing the Signs
A plant whose root zone is kept warm even while the air temperatures dip will be less damaged that one in which the soil temperature is cold while the air temperature gets warm. My objective here is to share my experiences with the conditions that are...
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Mr. Squirrel Meets Macho
Life was good, just like when he was a young squirrel. He was very sad and sorry.The next day, the beautiful daughter brought Macho outside, and they sat quietly in the grass. Mr. Squirrelah has just returned to his Momma and Poppa's tree, after his tree...
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Weather for Gardeners - Climate Anomalies and Paradoxes
During the day, as the air warms inside, the water also warms. That is one example, but how about a place where rain is almost nonexistent, yet under your feet is over a mile of ice?
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The Prairie In Winter
There are several kinds of berries. Today, however, they just didn't seem to be showing themselves.Northeastern Illinois is about at the edge of the range of the prairie, and the land here is low-lying.
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Wildlife in Winter
Sharp-eyed raptors learn to spot smaller creatures against the white background of a snowfield, and that bird feeders attract large numbers of prey. Voles live in nests underground, and in winter they construct a network of snow tunnels, where they can...
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The Mediterranean Climate: Where Summer is Winter
Rizpah was the mother of two of the men and she went to where the bodies where hanged, spread out a piece of sackcloth and sat upon it and watched over the bodies so the scavengers would not scatter the bones.
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Survivors! Trees and plants that will remain after the storm passes
For this reason, the plants and trees you choose as the foundation of your landscape plan should be those that can weather most storms. So for those of us who live in these storm zones, we need to take much greater care to be sure our trees and plants...
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Cabin Fever
Wikipedia defines: "Cabin fever is a condition that produces restlessness and irritability caused from being in a confined space. Poor dogs were walking around 3-legged. I'll never complain about weeds again.
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Turning In the Wind: A Short History of the Weather Vane
This allows the point of least resistance to always face into the wind. Still these simple, elegant tools remain proudly turning in the wind atop buildings in city and country alike, a nod to the ingenuity and art of an earlier age.
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Jack Frost
As a gardener, I dread the day that he makes his first appearance. Sometimes it makes the difference between getting the kids to the bus stop in time, or having to drive them to their respective schools, and being late to work myself.Of course, Jack Frost...
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Mr. Squirrelah and the Ice Storm
There were several Pin Oak trees full of acorns in the next yard, plus the nice people put sunflower seeds out in a feeder, and every now and then an ear of corn. Mr. Squirrelah and the other animals came out of hiding to look around.
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A Late Winter Snow Brings Me Back to My Perfect Childhood Snowstorm
There was plenty of light from the windows as the sunny day reflected off the snow.The only concern the old couple had was how to entertain a city child in the country and stuck inside the house.
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What is Blackberry Winter? Or Redbud Winter? Or Dogwood Winter?
As a matter of fact, we are having a Redbud Winter right now as I write this. Every gardener knows there are vagaries of weather following the first warm days in early spring, but not all gardeners know their names, or that they have names, and why.
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