Weather and Gardening Discussion

[Mountain Man]

11 of the next 14 days (not including today) forecast at/above 25°!! What the hell is going on?! Haha

I have a feeling we will break our all time high this summer...

 

[Mountain Man]

Environment Canada just issued a heat warning, I think we're screwed this summer.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

I don’t know what’s going on other than my garden is loving it.
I could have planted my garden at the beginning of May.

I’m pretty sure I said you could have!!


Wild to see the first heat warning of the year issued the first week of June.

 

[Mountain Man]

I planted a sunflower in early - mid may and it's about 2' tall already. If the squirrels don't eat it, it should bloom by early July! This is basically a Kelowna spring we are having...

 

[CBBarnett]

I planted a sunflower in early - mid may and it's about 2' tall already. If the squirrels don't eat it, it should bloom by early July! This is basically a Kelowna spring we are having...

My sunflowers and growing vines are doing great as well - but I struggle with a local squirrel limit. Once any plant hit my yard's fence height the squirrels notice them and start to chop the tops off everything. Last year I had some 9-foot sunflowers just about to bloom and the squirrels took them all down one by one in the final days lol.

 

[potatopizzafan]

My sunflowers and growing vines are doing great as well - but I struggle with a local squirrel limit. Once any plant hit my yard's fence height the squirrels notice them and start to chop the tops off everything. Last year I had some 9-foot sunflowers just about to bloom and the squirrels took them all down one by one in the final days lol.

Time to get into falconry

 

[Surrealplaces]

My sunflowers and growing vines are doing great as well - but I struggle with a local squirrel limit. Once any plant hit my yard's fence height the squirrels notice them and start to chop the tops off everything. Last year I had some 9-foot sunflowers just about to bloom and the squirrels took them all down one by one in the final days lol.

I've had a real issue with either birds or squirrels...probably birds. I think birds have been digging for worms and were tearing out my squash plants in the process. so far 4 have bitten the dust. Luckily I had a few extras kicking around. I believe the hot dry weather has mean birds need to dig more and this is the result.


Speaking of hot weather. Barely lunchtime and some places passing the 30C mark.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

 

[Rollerstud98]

I’m missing that rainy June of 2005 right about now. Pretty sure it rained hard every single day haha

 

[Mountain Man]

Feels like we are getting a month's worth of rain right now.

 

[Mountain Man]

I've had a real issue with either birds or squirrels...probably birds. I think birds have been digging for worms and were tearing out my squash plants in the process. so far 4 have bitten the dust. Luckily I had a few extras kicking around. I believe the hot dry weather has mean birds need to dig more and this is the result.


Speaking of hot weather. Barely lunchtime and some places passing the 30C mark.


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Probably the squirrels digging, they dig little holes all over my area.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Probably the squirrels digging, they dig little holes all over my area.

Bastards!

 

[boreal96]

Wow indeed June 2005 was rainy.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Already the 8th smokiest year on record, at LEAST. We probably moved 6th overnight.

Edit: actually yes, it was smoky through 7 am today, making us 6th place at 158 hours. It’s literally not even summer yet

 

[Surrealplaces]

Midway through June and things are already growing like crazy thanks to this hot weather we’ve had.
You can see in the squash garden, some gaps thanks to the squirrels or whatever it is eating the plants.