Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[cavemanrich]

Again....
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Look at the positive side of it,,, NO MOSQUITOES.

 

[jvls1942]

winter is back.. we had our three days of
mosquitoless summer.
the frogs that were chirping in the swamps
must be really surprised with all this snow..

 

[R2elk]

48°F here this morning.

 

[TooCheep]

37°F in central Indiana this morning. Supposed to go down to 34°F tonight. Hopefully no lower, because a freeze at this point can make the difference between some of my plants producing or not this year. (I'm looking at you apricot and kiwi...)

 

[R2elk]

37°F in central Indiana this morning. Supposed to go down to 34°F tonight. Hopefully no lower, because a freeze at this point can make the difference between some of my plants producing or not this year. (I'm looking at you apricot and kiwi...)

No blooms on anything here at this time.

 

[TooCheep]

No blooms on anything here at this time.

I'm sure that is a good thing with your current freezes/snow. Your plants know to wait. Starting later is better than starting too early.

We've had a very warm few weeks and my plants are leafing and/or flowering. I think if we can get past tonight without harm, then we'll likely be in good shape for the rest of the spring.

 

[jvls1942]

26F this morning, worked up to 32F and then
going to slide back down tonight.
six inches of snow last night.
before the rain/snow started, the ground
was bare..
the rhubarb, garlic and chives
are all coming up.. the snow shouldn't
hurt them.. no leaves on the trees, yet.

 

[bruceha2000]

We are starting to get leaves on some trees. It is 3 weeks too early based on history. Typically we wouldn't see leaf buds until the first week of May and then the leaves pop the second week.

 

[jvls1942]

If April showers bring May flowers,
then after that 4AM storm we just had. we
should be getting a super bloom..

 

[R2elk]

If April showers bring May flowers,
then after that 4AM storm we just had. we
should be getting a super bloom..

I had a little rain mixed with some small horizontal hail the other day. Got a whole 0.08" of precipitation. The hail stung pretty good.