What's the temperature where you are???

[Nomadicus]

91° and mostly cloudy

 

[sourland]

60F and still raining - I'm starting to shrivel.

 

[AdaliaStark]

75° with a dew point of 61° while feeling like 75° and 63% humidity.

Partly cloudy tonight with a low of 62° and ESE winds at 5 to 10mph.

 

[Nym]

Well, I live in a relatively cold region, and my house is located on the northern side of a large hill, but usually spring at this time looks a little more convincing and warmer than now.
Today the temperature is above zero, but somewhere around +4 C, although there is no reason to complain about the lack of precipitation - today it has been raining for half a day.
I do not plant potatoes like a farmer, my scale is much more modest, usually just a few long beds. As soon as the potatoes bloom and green berries appear on the bushes (berries are not for food, it are poisonous), I slowly begin to dig the potatoes up, wash them and boil them with the skin in a large saucepan, taking some for myself for lunch, and giving the rest, cut or mashed, to the ducks. I don’t know why, but my ducks really like boiled potatoes. Since there is no need to use pesticides here (large potato fields that can be affected by the Colorado potato beetle are located far away, and for some reason this beetle is not here at all, or it appears in a single specimen and for some reason it does not like it here, it does not reproduce, maybe the soil is too heavy and clayey, maybe there is too much manure, or maybe it is cold for it), in general, all the work on potatoes comes down to digging the soil, planting and covering a little later with some old rotten hay, soiled with old manure. Adding wood ash, old eggshells after incubation, sometimes some sand (to dilute the heavy clay soil, slightly acidic).

But I don't risk giving the ducks store-bought potatoes - they may contain pesticide residues, which is very dangerous for ducks. And you also need to watch carefully so that there are no very green tubers that have been lying in the sun, they contain the poison solanine.

In general, I just dig up good potatoes, boil them and feed them to the ducks. Although other poultry farmers here claim that you can't get too carried away with this, ducks can get fat if they eat too many boiled potatoes.

There is nothing like a freshly dug and cooked spud with butter on it. Yummo!

 

[SkyAJK]

NOW.....cloudy and cold.

The rain is here on and off....I don't want to watch the news for them to tell me about this weather.....so over it!

Hail or rain, I am going out of the house today.
Enough moping around, enough of waiting and praying for good weather, there aren't going to be any good weather anytime soon..time to hit the road!

 

[Ponypoor]

NOW.....cloudy and cold.

The rain is here on and off....I don't want to watch the news for them to tell me about this weather.....so over it!

Hail or rain, I am going out of the house today.
Enough moping around, enough of waiting and praying for good weather, there aren't going to be any good weather anytime soon..time to hit the road!

Can’t change the weather. But we can knuckle under and accept it as it is.

Praying for nice sunny cool weather for you.