bower wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:39 pm LFD here is early June. But there's lots of stuff growing by then. What's a little snow.
April snow? Doesn't last. May snow doesn't either. June snow, pretty much furtive.
We should get more sleet in March than snow. We'll have some frozen days alright, probably not as much to shovel.

Wry grin you got me beat there our last frost date is mid to late May... My ag teacher when I first moved up here (from the gulf coast I must add) told us that he always waited until Mothers Day to put in his wife's garden. It is actually a pretty good date to use. We may still get frost or even snow but if you put in all your cool weather plants then they will shrug them off. My warmth lovers actually don't normally go in until the end of May and then we pray they have produced by mid September when our first snow normally happens...

Been hovering in the high 50s in the house all week.
Finally a little relief but I was getting used to it.

wykvlvr wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 12:00 pm

bower wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 2:39 pm LFD here is early June. But there's lots of stuff growing by then. What's a little snow.
April snow? Doesn't last. May snow doesn't either. June snow, pretty much furtive.
We should get more sleet in March than snow. We'll have some frozen days alright, probably not as much to shovel.

Wry grin you got me beat there our last frost date is mid to late May... My ag teacher when I first moved up here (from the gulf coast I must add) told us that he always waited until Mothers Day to put in his wife's garden. It is actually a pretty good date to use. We may still get frost or even snow but if you put in all your cool weather plants then they will shrug them off. My warmth lovers actually don't normally go in until the end of May and then we pray they have produced by mid September when our first snow normally happens...

Gotta love Mothers Day! Dad and I had a tradition of rolling through the nursery looking for the earliest kind of flowers for Mom. Always too cold to plant them but you know, potted on the doorstep or inside. Primroses, not perennial for us. Cowslips and anemones were the early survivors. We get crocuses around the first of may, but there's still some snow to come, usually. One reason I love garlic is that it's up and growing fast even in April. Tender plants like tomatoes or beans or squash, you wouldn't think of putting outdoors before early July in a normal year, but we can have nice Septembers. Still the days get short quickly, so it's over in October whether we had a frost or not.

Spring has officially arrived!!

No freezes forecast for the next 2 weeks with highs in the 70's. Wish I could send some of this warmth to the Northerners who are buried in snow and sub-zero temperatures.

@bower I'm happy for you then! May my Canadian neighbors enjoy their gardens in peace and freedom, along with us of course. Living together in peace as neighbors should.

@JayneR13 someone invented row cover. In a world of inventions, trade, and shared knowledge there's no challenge that can't be met. I appreciate the times we live in 21st century and if I need row cover or LED lights, or any other ideas as to how to manage, including weather forecasts I could not live without!! I can get some. The internet is amazing, what a great opportunity to learn from people everywhere and just tap into information resources that are put out by our governments and freely shared. May we continue to prosper in peace.

in the middle of a late february thaw.
40 degrees it got to yesterday, and above freezing temps for a few more days.
now we want a slow gradual thaw so we don't get overwhelmed with melting snow
all at one time. some rain/snow mix is in the future. it will be cooling off by the
weekend. i am praying for a lighter amount of snow for awhile. the tractor blew
it trannie guts out for the SECOND time. it is in the shop for major work. the old
plow truck is out of moth balls and has been put into service. driveway got scraped
and banks pushed back with a front end loader, so that bus us some time. snow banks
on the road are at the 5 to 6 ft height. they will need to get chopped back soon in order
to reduce the anxiety of pulling out into the road without being able to see oncoming traffic.
are ya feeling luck, punk?


keith

Swinging from freezing back to warm... and so it goes!

It got to 56° yesterday, and 61° today, in the shade in the back, about 4:30 pm, and tomorrow it might get slightly warmer, as the sun is supposed to stay out. After these 2 more days of the highest temps of the year, the temperature roller coaster continues here, after that, as it is forecast to get well above and below average (47° now), every other day, before it levels out. Still some lows in the low 20s, in the 10 day.

Spectacular.

It's a little early

Idk what this is even for spring in the desert



But it came with a wonderful sunset this evening.

Our March came in like a lamb with sunny skies after rain. Several highs in the 40's F this week (7-8 C) with frostier but sunny days in between. All precip pretty well has been rain, which means the snow in the woods is now down to a crunch underfoot. Time to get that cutting done....

Got down to 22° overnight, and it got very windy overnight; though not in this area, some downed trees overnight, yet this morning the wind was 3 mph @ 9 am, so hardly moving, and by 11 am, it had finally gotten above freezing, at 33°. 41° the predicted high, but not coming fast (4 pm maybe)! And then tomorrow maybe 58°, and every day is above average (48° at this time), a couple in the 60s. Spring is here! And I saw a number of robins today, and that surprised me, given how dry the ground is still. But Wednesday, there is a heavy rain forecast, which we need.

It got to 64° here today! I was getting hot out there in a flannel shirt, which I ended up taking off. I looked at the thermometer in the shade in the back, and it was 64.3 at 4:15 pm.

Hi wind gusting to 50 something mph and dust from West Texas after the rains this morning.
It's as thick as fog.
Miserable.

I was a little concerned about the high winds today so after I came home I checked the 2 beds of woolly tomatoes I planted yesterday and.....they're already dead. Didn't even last 24 hours outside. 33 mph winds, 77 degrees, and 8% humidity will do that. I've seen 8% humidity in Wichita Falls before a few times but nothing close to that here.

Blew like nuts here for a few hours. Made a complete mess of the yard mowed yesterday. Local wind gauges had gusts up around 50 mph. I understand it was even worse inland, over hurricane force winds in the DFW area with clear skies.

I checked the tomatoes, lost (broken off) the growth tips on both my bicolors, but they should put out new tips eventually. Lost a cucumber, but I direct seeded cucumber seeds in place and those are just coming up.

The garden got 1/4” of rain this morning. None of the tomatoes were dried out in spite of the low relative humidity. I had mulched the tomatoes with cotton burr compost and that probably helped.

right now, we have a blizzard warning.
surgery later this morning, but first i have to move snow.
hope to see well enough to get to the hospital and back.
of all days.


keith

rxkeith wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:19 am right now, we have a blizzard warning.
surgery later this morning, but first i have to move snow.
hope to see well enough to get to the hospital and back.
of all days.


keith

That system looked like it was going to pummel you's; Ashland/Bayfield Peninsula expected 9-15"/~23-38cms snowfall. Good Luck & God Speed yer recovery with the surgery!

The Gotch