How's your weather?
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Re: How's your weather?
Knock out roses here do look especially nice this spring.
"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."
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Re: How's your weather?
Suffice it to say that this April is the coldest since 1941. And the whole next week will not be better.
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Re: How's your weather?
As of today we are just 40 mm short of the record rain for April which was set in 1951, with ten days to go. Weather today? Overcast with a few showers... again.
I think the lack of sunshine is even more notable than the amount of rain. Tomato plants which in normal weather reach for the window and have to be rotated, are turning in toward the fluorescent light instead.
I haven't moved em for weeks. 
I think the lack of sunshine is even more notable than the amount of rain. Tomato plants which in normal weather reach for the window and have to be rotated, are turning in toward the fluorescent light instead.


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Re: How's your weather?
70 and sunshine yesterday, 28 and snow tonight. This is the new normal for my spring weather. I am glad to not have a greenhouse and high tunnel full of plants.
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Re: How's your weather?
This morning, around 9 AM

This afternoon, around 2:

Tonight, down to around 28

This afternoon, around 2:


Tonight, down to around 28
John
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Wow! Looks like months apart.
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Re: How's your weather?
sunday, it was sunny, and 50.
monday it was blustery, and we got about 3 inches or so of snow.
today was better, sunny, but cold. weather is supposed to get
better the rest of the week.
keith
monday it was blustery, and we got about 3 inches or so of snow.
today was better, sunny, but cold. weather is supposed to get
better the rest of the week.
keith
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Re: How's your weather?
I covered everything, but my blueberry plant because I thought it’s unnecessary, but I’m reading the flowers could be damaged at this temperature especially during the later stages. So went out at 2am to carry it inside.
Didn’t want to take chances when store bought blueberries are so expensive.
Didn’t want to take chances when store bought blueberries are so expensive.
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Got down below 32 last night and it's supposed to hit 33 again tonight. I brought everything in pots into the garage, but I had to cover my beds. Unfortunately it was also very windy and part of my cover blew off. 
I think I only lost a few plants and I still have some extra seedlings kicking around, so hopefully I can replace anything that needs it once all is said and done. I'm hopeful that I can get my covers down more securely for tonight...

I think I only lost a few plants and I still have some extra seedlings kicking around, so hopefully I can replace anything that needs it once all is said and done. I'm hopeful that I can get my covers down more securely for tonight...
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Re: How's your weather?
Gosh, I saw an article in my news feed yesterday, about the concerns about the winter wheat crop in Kansas and elsewhere affected by this awful cold blast. There was a second article there about how that brutal freeze in Texas affected wheat there already this year.
You all have my sympathies. Late frosts are pretty routine here, so I know what that is like.
[mention]SweetClover[/mention] hope your covers stay down.
Wind last week managed to blow off the chicken wire and half the leaf mulch on one of my garlic beds.
I have some wheat planted out there under row cover which luckily has stayed in place held down by stray bits of board along the sides. Checked today and they have just sprouted, so I'll leave it on a little longer to keep the animals from eating it. Hope it is not at a vulnerable stage when our last frosts blow through. (never tried this before, so I may just find out why we don't grow wheat here).
You all have my sympathies. Late frosts are pretty routine here, so I know what that is like.

[mention]SweetClover[/mention] hope your covers stay down.
Wind last week managed to blow off the chicken wire and half the leaf mulch on one of my garlic beds.
I have some wheat planted out there under row cover which luckily has stayed in place held down by stray bits of board along the sides. Checked today and they have just sprouted, so I'll leave it on a little longer to keep the animals from eating it. Hope it is not at a vulnerable stage when our last frosts blow through. (never tried this before, so I may just find out why we don't grow wheat here).
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Re: How's your weather?
20C, 68 F here at 15:45. Big ENE wind blowing off the northern GOM keeping the temperatures tame. Slight Chance of rough weather tomorrow, tied up all my tomatoes to, fingers crossed, weather any major blow. No major heat or big deluges in the 10 day forecast, all systems go for continuing good tomato weather.
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It only got to 48° out back today, and tonight there is another freeze warning for much of the area, and a frost warning for the rest, due to the wind having died off some. Nothing I have out that will be bothered by the frost except my kaffir lime and bay laurel, which I'll move to the back porch. A week from today, the high is forecast to be 85°!! Talk about crazy weather.
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The other day, I just finished planting 100 gladioli, and 5 minutes later came the wind, rain, thunder, lightning, and hail. No need to water them in. 

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Re: How's your weather?
Severe weather. Tornado Watch.
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Re: How's your weather?
Raining cats and dogs.
Forest floor yard covered in water.
Forest floor yard covered in water.
Worth
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.
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Re: How's your weather?
Storms rolled through here between 11pm and midnight. Lit up the sky, blew a bit, and dumped just shy of an inch of rain. Perfect, garden needed it. Sun out today, low wind and heading for 87 degrees, a significant upward revision from previous forecasts. Cooler tomorrow.
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Re: How's your weather?
Replanted all of my tomatoes following the hard freeze we had. Luckily, I only had 18 plants and I grew more than I needed. I always do, but this time it paid off for me.
The best things in life---are not things.
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Re: How's your weather?
Rain, rain and more rain. Today we surpassed the April record set in 1951. Still raining with rain forecast every day to the end of the month. Looks like it will pan out about triple the normal precipitation for the month.
I'm not looking at the forecast for May... I expect sunshine, lots of it!
I'm not looking at the forecast for May... I expect sunshine, lots of it!
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Re: How's your weather?
I'm with you [mention]Bower[/mention] for the sunshine in may
The behaviour of light means you observe me as i was then, and not as I am now.
I cannot change history, so I do hope i gave you a good impression of myself
I cannot change history, so I do hope i gave you a good impression of myself