What did you do in the garden today?

[SkyAJK]

My garden is muddy and muddy. I pray for sunshine, blue sky and light wind to take away the excessive rain water and moisture in the air. That is all that I do for my garden today.

 

[SkyAJK]

Ice storm is starting here. Staying in. No need to risk a fall. Should reach 39 late 29 now.

I have never see Ice storm.
In Australia we have hail storm, it is ice block like those in the freezer so it is rain ice block. Rain individual ice block falling from the sky. Is that the same with your Ice storm?

 

[LaurenRitz]

I have never see Ice storm.
In Australia we have hail storm, it is ice block like those in the freezer so it is rain ice block. Rain individual ice block falling from the sky. Is that the same with your Ice storm?

Ice storms often start as freezing rain, followed by sudden cold so the rain freezes and everything is covered with a sheet of ice. Roads, houses, trees, driveways, cars, etc. We do have hail storms, but that is usually cold high in the air so the hail freezes and them falls as chunks of ice.

Another possibility is warm storm systems with rain falling into cold air with the same result. A layer of ice on everything.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I have never see Ice storm.
In Australia we have hail storm, it is ice block like those in the freezer so it is rain ice block. Rain individual ice block falling from the sky. Is that the same with your Ice storm?

We rarely get snow in the southern US. Typically only once or twice a year. It's usually melted within a day. Two years ago we had an ice storm. It started as freezing rain which coated the netting over my chicken coops. Just a quarter inch (6.35 mm) of ice was enough to bring down all the netting. The weight from the ice snapped all the support poles and tore the netting. This also brings down a lot of tree limbs on power lines which causes outages. Many times ice storms are far more destructive than snow storms.

 

[Smokerbill]

I looked to see if any onion or shallot seeds had sprouted yet, and nope, they haven't. Maybe they will next spring, and if they do I'll separate and replant them to the correct spacing.

And if they don't no problem. I have more seeds in case the experiment is a failure.

Weather here is rain with periods of bright sunshine breaking the monotony.

 

[Sally PB]

Is that the same with your Ice storm?

Several years ago, we had an ice storm and I took a few pictures.

This tree straightened back up the next spring/summer.

Our power was out for 3-4 days.

We are getting freezing rain tonight. I'm not going anywhere tomorrow. It should all melt Monday, when it's supposed to get up to 48° F.

Sometimes you'll hear someone speak of "black ice." That's when we get rain, but the ground is so cold, the rain freezes when it hits hard surfaces, like roads. Treacherous!

 

[Minanora]

We got a bit of rain! Thursday we got about a 1/3". Today we got almost 1". My sprouts in the orchard are doing well. All of the added vegetation and my bulb swale have made a huge difference in water runoff. I have high hopes for under my house this winter.

I checked on my bulbs. Turns out my bearded iris' are alive! Woo! I was expecting them to be dead, they were very dried out. Happy surprise! I need to take some photos. My orchard has quite a few weeds sprouting, but the clover is coming in. I'll probably need to till up some sections and reseed, but that's okay.

 

[SkyAJK]

Several years ago, we had an ice storm and I took a few pictures.
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This tree straightened back up the next spring/summer.

Our power was out for 3-4 days.

We are getting freezing rain tonight. I'm not going anywhere tomorrow. It should all melt Monday, when it's supposed to get up to 48° F.

Sometimes you'll hear someone speak of "black ice." That's when we get rain, but the ground is so cold, the rain freezes when it hits hard surfaces, like roads. Treacherous!

Thank you for the photos. I feel cold looking at the photos which is good as it is hot over here., Amazing looking at that little tree branch in the middle of the block ice around it. I imagine every house has fireplace or some sort of serious heater.

 

[SkyAJK]

We rarely get snow in the southern US. Typically only once or twice a year. It's usually melted within a day. Two years ago we had an ice storm. It started as freezing rain which coated the netting over my chicken coops. Just a quarter inch (6.35 mm) of ice was enough to bring down all the netting. The weight from the ice snapped all the support poles and tore the netting. This also brings down a lot of tree limbs on power lines which causes outages. Many times ice storms are far more destructive than snow storms.
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Thank you for the photos. It looks very cold, but it also look beautiful. I would not know what to do with my chickens if we are in that cold weather. Our winter here is dry cold, sometimes strong wind, but not often.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Anyone else attending any of these Seed Exchange Edible Communities events? Dallas is a quick and easy 40 min flight. Thinking about going...