Tag: May

May was a cool and dry month, over all slightly cooler than April

To take the sting away, especially spring snow is known as “poor man’s fertilizer."

Local orioles are hard to miss, even when they streak by your window and all you see is an orange blur.

Mostly cool weather is predicted for early May, ideal for continuing to prepare ground and sow cool-weather varieties, albeit at a faster clip.

Being impulsive, I decided to be done with the whole thing, to cut down the apple tree and to dig up the rose mallow, to simply forget about inconstant blossoms and not obsess over stuttering growth.

Believe it or not, this year’s May rainfall was a quarter of an inch below average, despite 19 days of measurable rain.

After the Summer Solstice, waiting for us just around the next bend in time’s progress, the shadow will begin its drift back toward me, slowly demonstrating the diminishing light and the shortening days.

The month finished as the fourth warmest and ninth driest in the now 53 years of weather recordkeeping.

I knew temperatures would only be in the 50s for most of the day so that would necessitate more time needed to cook this bad boy to an internal temperature of 200F.

Rather than discarding amaryllis bulbs after their winter blooms fade, keep the plants growing and blooming from year to year.

In this morning’s light, they sat silent, looking brittle as if they might clatter.

May was a month that featured most of the types of weather that our Berkshires could have: rain, snow, and the hot, humid conditions of summer.

I aimed the cold-water spray through the trellis wire to the outer row, swinging the hose slowly, deliberately. Into the midst of my concentration on the task, a ruby-throated hummingbird flew, suspending its colorful little body in the spray I was creating.