On 8/17/2014 10:41 PM, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 18/08/2014 4:18 AM, Higgs Boson wrote:
Curious whether other experienced home gardeners are observing same
phenomenon:

Last year or two -- most notable this year -- things are not happened
when they're 'posed to.

Yep. That seems to be the new pattern - ie, no dependability at all.


Have not collected exact data, alas, with 20-20 hindsight. But
generally plants bloom and bear later (I think!!!) than usual per
"normal" observations over decades.

First impulse is to blame it on global warming, and maybe that's
exactly where blame should fall. Just wanting to collect more data
in different zones as well as mine -- So.Calif.coastal (Mediterranean).

We've found that things such as the last frost date can't be at all
relied upon - one year the last frost date will be weeks earlier, the
next year itll be like we get two Springs - a warm spell and every sign
that Spring has arrived (such as birds collecting nesting material and
bud burst etc and then it's back to really chilly weather again with
frosts and that occurs long past the time of the 'old' last frost date.
Also, and probably the worst thing, the rainfall has dropped over the
past 15 years by about a third.

Climate change is upon us.

Some call it climate change but I call it weather.
We had a long snowy, cold winter that would have made you wish for
global warming. Term is now out of fashion for "climate change."
More or less normal summer and I got lots of tomatoes.