Weekend looks great, but by Sunday night things will be a changing fast. A train of low pressure systems looks to move across the country over a 7 day stretch.
I’m going to spray copper this weekend…also need to revamp some beds in preparation for million strawberry plants i ordered.
Do you have a machine that plants this many strawberry plants?
Starting next week, hi temps will be in the 60s
Recipe for disaster come a late frost - which it always does.
Also spraying copper (Kocide 3000) Saturday on peaches. What a nice stretch for spraying, pruning, etc!
Agree. It warms up too early. I am afraid that we will be hit by late frost again this year.
Last two nights were 27° and 28° here in my frost pocket neighborhood in Seattle, really looking forward to some warming up soon, and regretting my choice to plant out some seedlings a couple weeks ago.
The loquats and hardy avocado seedlings seem to be weathering it ok, but the mountain cherry guavas (P. longipetiolatum) look like they might not make it.
Looking thru my records, I find hard freezes:
2020 - 5/9
2019 - 4/30
2018 - 4/28
2017 - 4/1
2016 - 4/5
2015 - 4/22
2014 - 4/22
Which means I don’t want to see trees in bloom for the next 6 weeks. It’s the warm springs that have all the problems
Yep. That 5/9 freeze ladt year was a killer. Most trees were blooming or just bloomed.
After a total loss in 2020, anything would be an improvement…but it’s starting to look pretty good here…I think below about 28 is finished for the season here. So, open blooms may take a hit when the time comes, but buds should be safe. I’m hoping anyhow!
Appears like Niedzwetzkyana apple will be first to bloom. It was third last year. Showing some pink color in the buds… 8 days ago still was dormant.
Me. It’s not quite a million but over 100 and i have no idea why i did that. I might have to pot a bunch of them up so i’ll have to source some soil somewhere (i have the pots, just not the stuff that goes in them).
The snow melted today so that was nice. Some sunshine.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/port-orchard/98366/hourly-weather-forecast/336343
Still colder than usual
about 5 degrees colder than usual.
Mistral is blowing so it is much chillier than need be! The sun is out daily and is very warm. The wind just kills it! About 55 F
52F and windy here.
GFS walks back rain amounts for next week and keeps it mild. Might be able to leave some plants out for a day or 3 in row==clouds should keep the nights mild.
That’s about the last time I ate squirrel. Our family had a hunting friend who would serve us meals but never never tell us what we were eating in advance. The squirrel was more easily guessed at than some other things, although a sister speculated that it might be rat. That might have influenced our tastebuds. It was not especially enjoyed.
My boyfriend said it wasnt that bad depending on how you cook it.
It’s good as meat in a stew. Fried is good too…
The best mystery meat we were served was rattlesnake.
Hey I remember mystery meat from high school. Never did figure out what it was. Been “stewing” over that for 46 years or so.
I never ate school lunch (few times if the weather was not good/but normally just ran home) in grade school, cold lunch middle school and went home everyday for lunch in high school (lived very close/open campus so you could just leave–i wasn’t a smoker but a friend was and during commons we would just go walk around the neighborhood on warm days–i miss that–i need a time machine).
56F today…almost no wind. Perfect spring day. 2 more and then a washout …rain Mon-Weds. Probably green up pretty good in the next week, temps stay mild.
Fried squirrel…I bet Anthony Bourdain ate that.