Season Changing Signs

[AlittleSalt]

I joined here in 2014. There have been threads about seasonal changes that I have enjoyed reading each year.

I saw something different today. I watched ants swarming on a squashed acorn. There were so many of them - it was like the acorn was a tub of sugar.

[maxjohnson]

Ants are evil and should be eradicated from the planet. They farm aphids on all my plants and kill off the beneficial bugs. We bought this house which have stone pavement and it's a constant battle with ants. Pretty sure they will take over and become our overlord after a nuclear fallout, either them or the cockroaches.

I know its time to plant when all the whiteflies goes away. (winter)

I know to stop planting when the moths arrives in drove. (summer)

[JLJ_]

When the rain turns white and begins to pile up in heaps that sometimes remain until May.

[Worth1]

When you see last springs tomato eating fawns get to tender yearling succulent eating size.
Worth

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by JLJ_

When the rain turns white and begins to pile up in heaps that sometimes remain until May.

lol. It is bound to happen, sooner or later... sometimes in October, sometimes in November...

[GrowingCoastal]

But not before we pick some wild mushrooms in the woods. My daughter and I found chanterelles last week and this week she brought me a pine button mushroom as well as more chanterelles and a few tiny hydnums.

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by Worth1

When you see last springs tomato eating fawns get to tender yearling succulent eating size.
Worth

I saw a couple of those a few days ago. Sure looked tasty, ...
and then a tiny fawn barely as tall as the weeds came into view.

I guess we'll be eating chicken. #$%^ compassion!

[oakley]

In NewYork right now it smells like damp old laundry left in the washer for a week. That sour smell.
It is a nature/natural smell as it has been rainy and overcast for a week, no sun until today. Wet leaves falling and too damp to rake. Not many leaves or color changing yet, just fall damp smell.
No frost at all near, like past years. Not a pretty Fall. Stinky.
I kinda like it. Like a skunk smell dissipating. It is the Fall weather changing smell.

We shall see how the farm looks next weekend...i've had work and out of town and away. No frost yet.

[Labradors2]

Interesting about the ants Salt. Yesterday I saw ants swarming, and there were lots of winged ants amongst them. The wingless ones were orange.

Some laves are beginning to turn orange/red here and fall is approaching.

Linda

[NarnianGarden]

Yes, mushrooms... Some of the best survive frozen weather and can even be picked from under the snow.
By now the larvae have all died!

[MarianneW]

It is cooler outside than inside, at least at dawn. Winter is coming!

[heirloomtomaguy]

Winter is coming when the temperature goes from 106 to 94. Yeah we seem to never get a winter anymore.

[b54red]

I know winter is coming but with 90 degree days and nights only getting into the upper 60s it still feels like fall. The leaves are falling but whether from the weather changing or the total lack of rain for so long I'm not sure. I do know when we have a very dry early fall that leaves tend to fall much earlier even if the weather stays warm like this year.

Whiteflies are swarming anything in the garden or even out of the garden right now. I want to set out my cucumbers, beans and plant some mustard greens but when the whiteflies are this thick it is better to wait. I even have some broccoli ready to set out but in 90 degree weather it will probably head before it gets 8 inches tall or the squirrels will eat it down to the ground.

Bill

[AlittleSalt]

Bill, I have read about whiteflies and the damage they do. I have never seen a whitefly other than in pictures. Examples: https://www.google.com/search?q=whit...reC00Q_AUIBigB
I can see and read how they can be such a nuisance.

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by MarianneW

Winter is coming!

From the mouth of a Finnish weatherman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sS7-CfPn6Q