Almost a year ago, we were in the process of preparing for a major hurricane. Living in the mid-Atlantic we aren’t strangers to major storms, but this time, they were forecasting that my region was the 2nd most likely strike area. The navy sent the ships to sea and...
Hurricanes and Weather
Garden Preparedness
As I write this it has continued to pour rain since yesterday afternoon. In the past I would be restless and peeking out of the windows at the rain gauge, but not anymore. The minor flood my farm experienced last year in August brought about some changes here that...
Storm Lesson Learned: don’t go outside —but if you do, wear shoes.
It is June 14, 2013 and I am already feeling like I have had my share of storms this season. Last week we had a tropical storm ravage us and then 1 week later a front rolled through that brought  5 minutes of the worse wind I have ever been outdoors in (I explain this...
Flowers Standing Tall, well almost…
These afternoon storms that have been rolling through have been putting our gardens to the test. All the flowers that are netted using the plant support cut-flower horizontal netting have made out pretty well. Those not netted, not so good. Tuesday afternoon a wind...
Getting Ready for Hurricane Earl
Gardens, like homes, must be prepared for hurricanes before the hurricane arrives... We learned years ago when hurricane Isabel hit us that preparing the garden means you just might have flowers the following week or so if you just take a few steps. Harvest all...
Hanna Blew Thru—
The storm blew thru here on Saturday afternoon. Not as bad as expected, but still hard on a flower garden. I had harvested the garden a little harder than usually on the ThThursday before trying to lighten the load of foliage and flowers. However, our largest...
Toranados
I am starting this day full of thankfulness for things I took for granted yesterday. You see, last evenings tornados moved through our area and devastated families, homes, businesses and neighborhoods. Some how everything has been re-prioritized and those silly little...
This crazy weather is standard for Virginia!
It is Feb. 5 and they are calling for it to be 73 degrees here in southeastern Virginia today. Might sound crazy, but in fact I have found this to be the crazy norm most years. We get warm spurts followed by very very sharp cold days or not, just depends. All...