On 10/03/2015 8:41 AM, songbird wrote:

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.

The problems we've had over the last few years is that we've effectively
had several springs each year in quite quick succession so most of the
plants have been very confused and then, like you, the temps sky rocket
rapidly to mid summer temps.

This year has been a different story though and thank heaven for that -
it's mostly been cooler than usual with a few short summer bursts before
going cooler again.

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.

:-)) Catalogue reading time!