Weather and Gardening Discussion

[Surrealplaces]

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This guy is prototyping a sweeper bicycle trailer... I wouldn't mind picking this up and going around with it every spring

Unfortunately Calgary’s massive piles of gravel would destroy that machine instantly lol.

On a serious note, that thing would work well on the protected cycle tracks downtown or the ones like they have on 24th Ave/ Montgomery

 

[whatchyyc]

Unfortunately Calgary’s massive piles of gravel would destroy that machine instantly lol.

On a serious note, that thing would work well on the protected cycle tracks downtown or the ones like they have on 24th Ave/ Montgomery

And in the long term the city needs to buy one of these tiny sweepers to do all the cycle tracks and sidewalks themselves

 

[Surrealplaces]

Tomatoes coming along looking good and healthy. Lots of chlorophyll from light 100% provided by the sun.

 

[MichaelS]

Whenever I hear or read chlorophyll, I can't help but think of this:

 

[JWhite]

It's hotter in Perth than it is in Calgary, but I think you might be remembering the weather as hotter than it was. Almost all of the year the evenings cool down decently.

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As always, when it comes to weather, there is perception, and there is reality. I have a friend who lives in Sydney, and she’s always talking about it’s in the 40s all the time, but looking at the stats, it only hits those temperatures once in a while, and throughout the winter, it’s in the teens, much of the time, fairly often with overnight lows, getting close freezing.

 

[Mountain Man]

Looks like summer this weekend, to plant or not to plant.... lol I'll probably wait a few more weeks still

 

[Surrealplaces]

Looks like summer this weekend, to plant or not to plant.... lol I'll probably wait a few more weeks still

I've been burned a few times by trying to get something on when there's a nice forecast lol. For me it's never before May long, no matter how nice things look. I find for plants like tomatoes, waiting until the end of May or first few days of June ends up better for them long term.
This year though I might not be able to wait that long, my plants are between a foot and half to 2' now. Not sure why but they're growing rapidly this year.

 

[Roaring Flames]

We're currently on track for this year to be the hottest ever globally. There's also a very strong El Nino developing in the Pacific right now. I wouldn't be surprised if we've already seen the last of cold weather this spring

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I would agree.

 

[Mountain Man]

We're currently on track for this year to be the hottest ever globally. There's also a very strong El Nino developing in the Pacific right now. I wouldn't be surprised if we've already seen the last of cold weather this spring

Because you said that, we will have at least 1 more 2' snowfall now. haha

 

[Mountain Man]

EC is forecasting 29 next Wednesday, what is the earliest in the year we have hit 30, anyone know?

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I do believe this will be the longest early spring heatwave in the 12 springs I have lived here…

TWN long range has it lasting through Friday. 8 days above 21. The highest April temp ever recorded was 29.4° on April 29, 1926. Can’t find May.

 

[Surrealplaces]

2:00pm and the weather is like mid summer.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Tulips up! Peonies, not far behind. Hard to believe there were still big piles snow around only 3 weeks ago.

 

[Mountain Man]

I'm starting to get nervous about this summer, all this heat right now is melting the above average snowpack in BC and the below average snowpack in Alberta. BC is getting flooding and we are going into another drought, could see the Bow and Elbow start to dwindle by late summer if we don't get much rain.