I’m still pruning my deciduous fruits. The prunus all have bud swell, but the Nectaplum and Desert Dawn nectarine are opening flowers daily. In fact the latter opened a few blossoms in December and now has a half-dozen fruit sets. My low-chill apples dropped few if any leaves and are currently sporting a crop plus new blossoms. The Hood Pear is mostly dormant although it didn’t drop all its leaves. The jujube, grapes, and pomegranate are still dormant. I wouldn’t be surprised if the latter quickly alters course.
My evergreens hardly slowed down and are back full steam now. Last year’s tomato is still fruiting and the bananas are putting up new leaves. Curiously the french taragon went dormant on schedule .
Calling for possibly a half inch of freezing rain tonight! Yikes, hope they’re wrong, so many trees over power lines in these hills, it could be a nightmare. Here’s hoping for just a heavy cold rain.
I had a couple of fluffy inches…cold but sunny now.
Looks like Chicago gets hit with plenty.
GFS is just a roller coaster in the temps dept for around here the next 10 or so days… up above freezing, then down to near 0F…then back to the 40Fs and back to single digits…overall doesn’t look awful. Nothing record breaking on the up or downside…so that is good.
teens here. mid 20’s the next couple days. another 3-4in tomorrow. last storm on weds dropped 10in. running out of places to put the snow! almost 3ft. of ice on the lakes. no warmer winter this year!
Interesting seeing another “northerner’s” weather. Very little snow here…maybe 6-8", but more than plenty of below zero weather. -17 on Wednesday morning and -16 this a.m. Supposed to get back to “normal” next week (highs in the 20s). And ya…3’ plus of ice on lakes here
Well, we didn’t get hardly any ice here a few days ago like they were forecasting. Instead we got maybe 1-2" of cold rain, which has made things even muddier around here. I spent a good while cleaning out our drainage ditches that had become clogged with leaves, rocks and twigs/branches. The culvert under our drive was almost completely blocked, but everything is flowing better now.
We’re getting some showers again today, but the worst of it is passing south of us. I believe this has been the wettest winter we’ve had, not a lot of snow, but plenty of rain. I wish it’d dry up a bit, I have a lot of bush hogging to do, but I don’t want to leave deep tractor tire ruts in the soil.
Good thing about today was that it’s been in the 50s, and the 7 day forecast is calling for just one night near freezing. Yay.
Last couple days have been overcast and we got some s**w. Can’t be too cold though I got things poppin up. Next 6 days are sun and mid 30’s. Outside that is. GH should be close to 70!!
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