Post #1099302

2026-04-11 22:33 UTC

The soil in the garden is like dust and the winds just blow and blow with no rain in sight and high temperatures expected in a few days. Not how April usually is. The spring plants are adapted to frequent rains and moist soil. #gardening #pennsylvania

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@nancywisser@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 22:37

We visited the great blue heron rookery yesterday. This is the third year of the drought. Last year there were at most half as many nests as the year before. This year there were half again as many. If we don't get rains to fill streams and ponds and let fish reproduce, great herons will become rare here. You can see it happening in real time. #climate #birds

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@MikeyU@gardenstate.social 2026-04-11 22:58

@nancywisser Same here in Upstate NY. April showers are nowhere to be seen. I'm afraid to spade rhe garden out of fear of the topsoil will blow away with thede March-like winds.

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@dulcedemon@beige.party 2026-04-12 02:14

@nancywisser We got lucky with a few showers last night (Wilkes-Barre area), but we need so much more. Wretched for allergies too.

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@jeridansky@sfba.social 2026-04-12 02:38

@nancywisser I wish I had a way to send you the rain we're getting today (and tomorrow, if the forecast is to be believed). We can use the rain, but we don't need it the same way you do.

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