Beam me to Planet Gore !
My dogs monitor tomatos for ripeness. When they're ripe and no ones looking, they eat them. I'll start keeping track of the date.
That'll certainly add weight to the scientific consensus concerning man made global warming.
Here’s my contribution:
Last year there was a freeze in April. It got the peach blossoms. No peaches
This year there was a cool and rainy May, June, and early July. The heat racheted up in the past few weeks and there have been some solid hot nights (an old backyard gardener told me this was necessary for tomatoes, melons and summer fruits). Combined with the rainwater, Peaches.
I happen to participate in the Audubon CBC every year, but I don't do it for the "citizen science" of it. I, and just about every other counter I know, do it because we love birds and birding.
My advice? If you like to garden and keep records, do it because you like to garden and keep records. But, jeez, don't pretend you're doing something to save the planet.
Gardening PING!!!!!!!!!!
I used to do the Feeder Watch but I quit when I caught myself inflating numbers so I could be ‘Cool”. I would imagine a garden survey would be very subjective to the gardeners whims...
We’ve got some severe global cooling going on here in northwest Montana.
We had a bunch of snow on June 10th from which my tomatoes have not recovered. I have about three tomatoes. Last year I had dozens. No salsa for me this summer!
Last year 20 out of 30 days in July were above 95. This year, there were none. It’s actually getting into the mid 40’s at night and we have been about 80 during the day.
It’s been rather pleasant!