You know now that we have had quite a few nice sunny warm days it makes the frigid cold days seem three times as bad. Tulips, crocus, cherry blossoms all a sign spring is near, but it surely isn’t here…
Spring Snow & Freezes Not Over
The great plains have seen three big snowstorms in the past 10 days as far southas Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, east to Iowa with snow and freezing temperatures into north Texas, now the cold air is shifting back to the east where it had firmly planted itself from November 1st to March 20th. My friends at accuweather have some bad news for warm weather lovers from Ohio south to Georgia. Prepare for another hard freeze in much of the South Monday-Wednesday as it works each night toward the eastern seaboard.
Spring Retreats next few days, proving way to early to plant!
The snow will probably not stick during the daylight hours as the sun is at the same angle it is in late August however at night as the air pushes east if the skies clear there will be temperatures to northern or central Georgia from 27-32 degrees! Hope nobody started the Tomatoes outdoors yet. Each winter seems to get longer and longer and each spring we want to arrive sooner. Starting your plants too early outdoors will result in poor early summer results. If the plants began in a greenhouse somewhere or even germinated indoors by you, a few nights even in the 40s outside can damage some annuals or trick perennials into thinking its fall and stunting their growth. I warn about this in multiple posts, as of Friday I talked with a gentleman in Wisconsin that wants water lettuce (the most sensitive plant I know to cool (not cold) shipped to WI this upcoming week! Ten years ago ,I too,was adding Tropical Lilies to my pond outdoors in late April, on years it seemed we would have no more frost or freeze, they did survive but they also did not put up new vegetation or flowers until almost the end of June. They were absolutely affected by cool / cold weather.
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Go away cold. This global warming thing just isn’t happening. We did get our garden tilled today in Carlisle, PA. Snowflakes are coming Tuesday and not the aquatic plant “snowflakes”. Hopefully the week after Easter will bring some more kind weather to the Northeast. We have peas in the ground ready to go.
Ridiculous is right. I already put my ice scaper back in the trunk of my car. I haven’t gotten my garden trowel into the ground much except to get rid of come early thistle I caught trying to grow. You know what they say. April Showers…yada yada
Katie
We will probably be safe here in eastern NC in the next week or two. We had 3″ of snow just about 15 days ago which is very abnormal that late in the year. My mother and father in law live at the foot of the mountains and will get frost until the first of May. Our tulips are almost done blooming and the fruit tress will be open soon.
We have two pots of louisiana iris in the pond that are probably more than a foot tall with the warmth today. Probably a week or two until blooms begin here.
Its snowing here in Indiana. Bad late April Fools joke! Even the fish look like they are getting tired of this.
Not bad in Texas, planting away!
Cool morning in Pensacola but not bad enough to damage the plants. Tomatoes and eggplant are going in this week. Our floating plants are starting to spread in the pond. The only thing that has bloomed so far is our water iris.
lets hope this is the end of this cold! I tilled our garden and got a box of fish food out of our shed last week, we used to have to wait for tree hellicopters to fall to uncover the pond netting but the new skimmer takes care of most of them besides what falls in between the rocks.
birds are nesting so better weather must be close. It would be a good long weekend to powerwash the deck and get things started but I am skeptical. We have some great aged compost to repot our lilies and bog plants this year.