On June 6th I was wondering when winter would arrive. Well we have had a
handful of cold days, a handful of mild frosts and no hard frosts since
then. The grass has kept growing almost continuously (about 80mm in the
last three weeks in the orchard). In most winters there is very little
growth from June to September, a couple of dozen mild frosts and handful of
hard ones are likely. I should point out that I have a mixed species
pasture and orchard so it is only the cool tolerant ones growing - but they
are growing.

Now two months later the roses are shooting and I am cutting asparagus. If
it stays warm we will declare Asparagus Feast in two weeks. The stone fruits
are starting to bud. I pray we don't get a late frost because bud burst
looks about 3 weeks off. I had better exdigitate and start my summer crop
seedlings this week.

David

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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On June 6th I was wondering when winter would arrive. Well we have had a
handful of cold days, a handful of mild frosts and no hard frosts since
then. The grass has kept growing almost continuously (about 80mm in the
last three weeks in the orchard). In most winters there is very little
growth from June to September, a couple of dozen mild frosts and handful
of hard ones are likely. I should point out that I have a mixed species
pasture and orchard so it is only the cool tolerant ones growing - but
they are growing.

Now two months later the roses are shooting and I am cutting asparagus.
If it stays warm we will declare Asparagus Feast in two weeks. The stone
fruits are starting to bud. I pray we don't get a late frost because bud
burst looks about 3 weeks off. I had better exdigitate and start my
summer crop seedlings this week.

Mutter, grumble, bitch, moan. Come and spend a few days here if you're
missing those winter frosts.

I'm sick to death of them and it's till not time to prune the roses here
yet. A couple more weeks to go yet I think.