On 5/16/11 3:51 PM, Chris wrote:
A week of temps in the 50s. Rain off and on, and fog most of the time.
My peas, lettuce, and broccoli are loving life out there, but my poor
cuke, tomato, pepper, eggplant, and such seedlings are whining at me
from the window, "We want sun! We want sun!"

Sigh.

You can please some of the garden some of the time, the rest of the
garden some other time, but give up on pleasing all of the garden all
of the time...

Chris

I spent some time researching past weather records for where I live,
including developing four different spreadsheets. I used the results to
create a Web page about my climate; see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html. Now I'm beginning to
believe there is no such thing as "typical weather".

While generally 75% or more of our rainfall occurs from the beginning of
December through the end of February, it's raining right now. Since the
beginning of May, we have had 0.20 inch. Many years we get NO rain from
the end of April through October.

May is supposed to be a mild month with an average low temperature of
53°. Last night's low was 44; the night before, it tied a five-year low
of 42.

Between the rain and low temperatures, local mountains are expecting
snow today. That even had the TV weather personalities surprised.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary