I thought I'd use this space to make a more permanent and easily accessed record of my observations throughout the year. I live near a park, so some of these are in my own yard, some at the park which makes for some interesting observations.
- Reviewing from my old journals.
January 26 - 58 degrees!
January 31 - bittercress and unidentified leaves of some plant coming up.
February 13 - It was 44 degrees and snowing. How??? The air temperature was 43.
March 7 - Cleavers coming up.
March 14 - tornado watch.
March 15 - crane flew over us as we went for our walk.
March 28 - ducks, geese changing colors.
April 2 - River flooded.
April 3 - park still flooded.
April 6 - muskrat spotted!
April 7 - first butterfly spotting for the spring.
April 8 - Eclipse.
April 10 - We saw the muskrat again.
April 12 - Park still very flooded, past the tree lines and covering the walking path in low spots. Daffodils in bloom, tulips near bloom. Fruiting trees (plum or cherry?) in bloom.
April 16 - 70 degree weather.
April 18 - potatoes spouted. They didn't do well so I wasn't able to harvest them unfortunately!
April 20 - My aquatic lotus plant started sprouting again. I had thought the snails had killed it off!
April 28 - Common mouse-ear blooming. Mock strawberry blooming.
April 29 - Japanese barberry turning red.
April 30 - Lots of random weeds coming up. I'm still learning how to identify things in our new home. Violets blooming. Star of Bethlehem flowering. Speedwell spreading.
Living near a park, the geese come by every spring with the baby geese. Today was the first sighting of the baby geese in the yard! I find it very exciting and enjoy watching them feed in our field. The dandelions were in full force by this time and the hostas were doing well.
May 1 - Groundhog in our yard.
May 7 - Mushrooms popping up.
May 9 - Groundsorel flowering. More mushrooms. Crownvetch made its first appearance.
May 11 - "Red tail" hanging out in our yard - we have melanistic gray squirrels in our area. They seem to be very common here. They're mostly all black with red tails.
May 18 - wild carrot growing. Pokeweed, crabweed sprouting. Wood sorrel spreading.
May 19 - Eastern bluestar blooming. More mushrooms.
May 23 - Tree of Heaven spotted.
May 26 - Morning glories sprouting.
May 27 - golden eagle spotted near our house, on Memorial Day! Further research makes me think it could have been a juvenile bald eagle, not positive. We're supposed to have a family of bald eagles near here. I started watching the skies more since this day and have spotted lots of hawks (we have a family of them near us also), vultures, etc.
May 29 - planted astilbe and bleeding heart.
May 30 - I found some Heal All growing in the yard.
June 5 - planted Coral bells. Nightshade starting showing up.
June 6 - First nasturtium sprouting.
June 7 - Bleeding heart blooming.
June 8 - Hollyhock sprouting.
June 10 - Ragweed. Day lily flowering. Rabbits started visiting the yard.
June 11 - Toadflax blooming.
June 13 - Hostas flowering.
June 14 - Coral bells flowering. White avens blooming.
June 20 - Purslane growing. Sow thistle showing up everywhere.
June 22 - Horseweed showing.
June 23 - First potato harvest but they were mostly too small to keep.
June 30 - Mallow blooming. Salsify blooming. Wild carrot blooming. Received my pepper plants, a few were flowering.
July 1 - Burnweed and sow thistle coming up.
July 5 - Fleabane blooming. Raining season so lots of mushrooms were showing up. First lightning bugs! Nasturtium sprouting. Toadflax blooming.
July 8 - Lots more mallow popping up where the road crew redid our yard.
July 15 - sunflowers coming up; first peppers forming. green beans sprouting. petunias sprouting.
July 16 - Baby robin hanging out on our porch. Momma was nearby in my garden. Strawberries flowering.
July 17 - first tomato flowers. I found Flower-of-an-hour in our yard where the roadcrew sowed grass.
July 18 - groundhog hanging out in our yard again.
July 20 - Flower-of-an-hour blooming.
July 21 - Bunny sighting.
July 22 - first strawberry fruit. first bean flower, zucchini sprouting, peppers producing fruit, marigolds sprouting.
July 26 - Morning glories blooming.
July 27 - Zinnias sprouting.
July 29 - Tomatillo sprouting.
July 31 - tomatoes producing fruit.
August 3 - first bean harvest.
August 11 - beans flowering.
August 17 - Zinnias flowering, more morning glory blooms.
August 20 - Watermelon flowering.
August 22 - Cucumber flowering, kohlrabi sprouting. Nasturtium blooming.
August 24 - First pepper harvest.
August 27 - More nasturtium blooms. Cosmos blooming. Found my first quickweed in the garden, joy!
Tomatillos producing fruit.
August 30 - Watermelons producing fruit. Spinach and arugula probably near harvest.
September 8 - Cucumber producing fruit.
September 20 - corn flowering.
September 23 - Petunias flowering.
September 27 - First turnip harvest, tomatillo harvest.
October 1 - starting to get cold, with highs in the 50s. Seasonal anxiety setting in.
October 2 - Bean, tomatillo and pepper harvest. First cosmos seed harvest.
October 24 - Started seeing caterpillars in the garden.
October 30 - Yarrow sprouting.
November 7 - planted garlic.
November 12 - still harvesting tomatoes and tomatillos. Harvested catnip.
November 20 - first crocus bloom, ground cherry producing fruit.
November 21 - first snow.
December 12 - Woodpecker came back.
December 27 - Double rainbow.
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