Drew Lawson wrote:

Last week, we had overnight lows below 0F.
NOAA is reporting a current (3:45PM) temperature of 53F.

yeah, the contrasts can be amazing. most of the
heavy snows went south of us again this year. we
have some snow on the ground, but nothing like what
they got out on the east coast.

it will be a week or two of warm weather just to
clear the snow away. i hope it goes slowly enough
to avoid flooding and so most of it can soak in
instead of running off. warm days and cool nights
work well. warm rains are often trouble...


Last week, I thought winter would never end. Now I feel like I am
impossibly behind in prep and planting. And it's too muddy (from
snow melt) to do anything just yet.

I'm sure we have a few frosts/freezes ahead, but the gardening
season has certainly started.

oh, for sure, it's not done yet. i'm hoping we don't
have fruit trees blooming too early. last year went
ok in comparison to the year before, but i'd sure like
to see another fairly normal spring. seems we go right
from winter to summer without much in between.

we're at least 8 weeks from planting most things other
than some early peas and onions.

i stay off the gardens and what little grassy areas
we have left until they are fairly dried out and growing
again. that helps avoid a lot of compaction problems
and a lot of the mess too with our high percentage of
clay soils.


songbird