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Wrapping our minds around weather and climate | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. Wrapping our minds around weather and climate. January 12, 2014. ChiloquinNews article Jan 13th, 2014…. Weather is what we see when we get out of bed in the morning. The definition of climate is. The weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period. In a study supported US and European space agencies, NASA and ESA, the rate of melting sea icepacks was examined. This is what they found. The icepacks ARE. Consider the ice ages – there ...
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Cheatgrass | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. January 26, 2013. This week’s Weed – Cheatgrass. ChiloquinNews article July 30th, 2012. Cheatgrass or drooping brome ( Bromus tectorum. The key to eradicating cheatgrass is diligence. The seedlings have a purplish tinge and can be very difficult to see. A healthy clump of actively growing cheatgrass. As cheatgrass matures it regains its purple tinge. January 26, 2013. In gardening in snow country. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Restoring a Meadow | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. July 17, 2013. ChiloquinNews article July 8th, 2013…. Annual rye grass, taller than me. The property had been used for growing potatoes at one time, and for hay storage at another, and so there were lumps where discarded hay had once been stacked, and now nettles were thriving. As soon as we had those lumps graded, the weed nightmare really began. Every weed imaginable grew to 8 ft tall; truly, I could not see over the top of them. I can see lots mor...
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Prickly Lettuce | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. January 26, 2013. This Week’s Weed – Prickly Lettuce. ChiloquinNews article October 1st, 2012. Prickly Lettuce leaves line up to face the sun. I’ve saved my most dreaded weed ‘til last. Prickly Lettuce ( Lactuca serriola. Is commonly considered a weed of orchards, roadsides and field crops, but in fact, it will grow anywhere. While Prickly Lettuce in the sun will flower at 3″ tall, those in the shade will grow as tall as 6′. Even though concentration...
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. This week’s Weed – Western Salsify ChiloquinNews article July 23rd, 2012 Tragopogon is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family that has over 140 species, including the vegetable known as salsify, and a number of common wild flowers, some of which are usually regarded as weeds. In the early 1900s, three species native…. January 26, 2013. In gardening in snow country. Bachelor’s Button or Cornflower. January 26, 2013. January 26, 2013.
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Sea Buckthorn – a commercial crop for Chiloquin? | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. Sea Buckthorn – a commercial crop for Chiloquin? September 1, 2013. ChiloquinNews article Sep 2nd, 2013…. Sea buckthorn ( Hippophae rhamnoides. It requires miserably cold winters (yes! Hot dry summers (yes! Because it is wind pollinated and it will grow in alkaline soil (yes! Miniscule flowers in spring. Become bright orange berries in late summer-early fall. The plant is hardy, deciduous, dioecious (separate male and female plants), has narrow grey-...
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Moss Animals | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. September 15, 2013. ChiloquinNews article Sep 16th, 2013…. This magnificent bryozoan lives up to it’s name. It is at least 3 ft in length. They need warm, clean water. As the water temperature drops below 60 degrees, the colonies will die. Small seedpods called statoblasts are all that remains after adult colonies decompose at the end of fall. Each seed has jagged hooks that easily attach to an unsuspecting bird that then flies the seedpo...Wrapping ...
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Getting a New Hip | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. Getting a New Hip. January 26, 2013. Getting a new hip. ChiloquinNews article October 5th, 2012. I got a new hip last Tuesday morning and what I realize from having done this is that there is very little real information just about the nuts and bolts of this procedure out there for the prospective ‘hipee’. So here’s rather a long article on what you can expect if this is in your future. From the end of the bed. And how is it progressing? You are comm...
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Weather – it’s on a lot of minds now that it’s SO COLD! | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. Weather it’s on a lot of minds now that it’s SO COLD! April 19, 2013. ChiloquinNews article, Jan 14th 2013…. Ever wondered what the weather was doing somewhere else, RIGHT NOW. You can see that on the Davis Weatherlink map. To view the map go to. Http:/ www.weatherlink.com/map.php. And you will see. Enter a location, e.g. Klamath Falls, click ‘go’ and you will see a close up view of that area. April 19, 2013. In gardening in snow country. You are com...
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About | Joansgarden's Blog
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Long gone from the city, enjoying life in the country. I never considered myself an artist though, and my profession became science. I worked in research labs at the University of Adelaide, Stanford University, and finally at the University of Nevada, Reno, where my last 7 years were spent establishing and managing the Nevada Genomics Center, A DNA sequencing facility. Spring garden at Agency Lake. 2 thoughts on “ About. July 8, 2014 at 5:41 am. I hope this finds you well. October 8, 2014 at 6:27 pm.