The storm that spawned this red rainbow also spawned grape-sized hail near Busby Alberta. Watching the clouds roll over our house was fascinating yet somewhat alarming since they were some pretty nasty clouds! It’s tornado season here, so whenever the storm warnings pop onto my cell phone, I have a look at the radar if [...]
Continue reading about Red Rainbow from last weekend’s storm
After we got home last night, a big storm rolled in. It was producing nickle and dime sized hail!! Apparently the cloud was spawning funnel clouds before it reached Edmonton, though it’s rotation slowed by the time it reached us thankfully. Here are some pictures of how the plants were doing before the storm, and [...]
Continue reading about Things that are growing in the Millwoods plot
So we went and took a look at the millwoods garden to see how badly damaged things were. In the end, we got away relatively alright. We lost 3 tomato plants and had their cages thrown about, The big Holy Moly pepper plant got pulled up and thrown across a few plots but I found [...]
Continue reading about Whew! Not as bad as it could have been.
I went to Hole’s Greenhouse in St. Albert last night to get some replacements for the too windburned peppers and see what they had for vine tomatoes. I couldn’t resist the full grown and already fruiting Holy Mole pepper plant for $15 so picked that up. I also got about 16 other tomato plants to [...]
Continue reading about Final (I hope) planting layout for the Millwoods Plot
