Standing on the back porch, helplessly watching the hail pound down on the garden every summer - this has got to be the hardest part about gardening in Calgary!!
I can handle zone 3, I can handle the chinooks, I can handle the cold nights and the short growing season and even the freak snowstorms in June and September, all things which make gardening in Calgary notorious. But the hail in July and August, when the garden is at its peak, is just, well, painful.
Fortunately, I don't seem to be in much of a hail belt and sustained very little damage. I don't think the tomatoes were impressed, though.
Comments