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neverspent) wrote2010-05-24 10:24 pm
neverspent) wrote2010-05-24 10:24 pm
May 24: Humidity, mushrooms and volunteers
am a weather enthusiast and it would be too easy for me to let this blog be about the weather, so I've made myself a rule to prevent it. But today, it's awfully hard to think of anything I noticed outdoors other than
HUMIDITY
Even if I hadn't been able to feel it sapping my strength as I walked across campus in the afternoon, I would have been able to see the evidence in the numerous beefy, strapping young mushrooms about. They sprang up after the heavy rains last week, but the heat should have withered them by now. It hasn't, and the only way they're surviving, I think, is on the humidity. Seventy percent, on a hot, sunny day. The plants are loving it! (Edited to add - I checked the heat index for the day: 115 F/46 C.)
I waited until almost dark to go out on my balcony and do some weeding. Among the elm seedlings, I found some cockscomb sprouting. They're easy to identify by their long, pointed leaves and red stems. Two years ago, I planted cockscomb that my dad gave me from his garden, and the seeds it dropped are still coming up! I love volunteers.
HUMIDITY
Even if I hadn't been able to feel it sapping my strength as I walked across campus in the afternoon, I would have been able to see the evidence in the numerous beefy, strapping young mushrooms about. They sprang up after the heavy rains last week, but the heat should have withered them by now. It hasn't, and the only way they're surviving, I think, is on the humidity. Seventy percent, on a hot, sunny day. The plants are loving it! (Edited to add - I checked the heat index for the day: 115 F/46 C.)
I waited until almost dark to go out on my balcony and do some weeding. Among the elm seedlings, I found some cockscomb sprouting. They're easy to identify by their long, pointed leaves and red stems. Two years ago, I planted cockscomb that my dad gave me from his garden, and the seeds it dropped are still coming up! I love volunteers.