I have always been interested in Home Weather stations. A professional home weather station with an Internet connection will allow you to keep track of your low and high temperatures, rain, barometric pressure, and wind. With a Smart Phone App you can monitor your weather conditions online from almost anywhere…

You can't let the warm sunny days in early May fool you into planting outside too early. Even though it is 70 degrees F outside as I am writing this. The 24 hour Temperature Graph below tells the real story...

We are past 12 hours of sun in March and it is 40 degrees outside. That is plenty of light to grow plants - but the ground is still covered with snow and will remain frozen until May…