Ravenswood is in a period known as Indian Summer. The winter ahead is expected to be warmer and wetter than normal.
A Sense Of Place
Our garden blog.
Weather will be interesting
By Patrick Boylan “It’s going to be an interesting winter,” Tom Vollman, The Bulldog’s resident weatherman warned Tuesday. Chicago and the Midwest are known as the Battleground, Vollman said. The current storm, with the media warning it is one of the worst in decades, is the first of the winter storms blowing in from...
The first frost is coming, let’s have some fun with it!
The neighborhood seems poised to experience the arrival of the first frost. Tonight as we cover the last of the summer vegetables shivering in the garden we can take a moment to consider a few facts about the phenomena of frost we are anticipating. There are a number of related weather terms that we...
A Sense of Place: Green Tomatoes
Looks like another green tomato year… I’m just not the tomato gardner that my Mother was. Now she could grow a tomato plant 11 feet tall that would bear a bushel of fruit, big red beefsteak beauties. Sometimes the plants overproduced and she would take the few greenies wrap them in newspaper and line...
Sense Of Place: Community Garden-Update
The garden at 4803 N Western Avenue is showing signs of attention, it has been mowed. On Wednesday afternoon Robert Rawls of Aldermans Schulters office told the Bulldog that the garden was not active due to “safety” concerns and that the current Laborers Union strike which started July 1st was holding up progress. He...
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