Brought some pine up to the house today for Saturday night supposed to be Low 34, probably more Pine on Sunday 53 low 36
Nuts. I even saw one forecast that says 30 both Saturday and Sunday nights. Goodbye fruit and no doubt some garden vegetables. Caught the neighbor thinking about planting string beans. I advised her to wait until next week to do the planting. Around here, May 10 is the average date for killing frost. Well, that also means we can go beyond May 10 and we have many, many times. Not uncommon to have frosts in early June. I've lost sweet corn only one time in my life and that was when it got a hard freeze in June and not that many years ago. Well, maybe 15 years ago or around that time. But further north, I remember losing almost all the garden in early July. Now that is crazy. I also remember in the northern LP seeing most of the field corn get froze in Late July and several times in August. That year it also snowed quite a bit in September.
81 today! Finally, just when you want to be naked (shorts & sleveless tee shirt) the *#&^ing black flies are biting hard! Cover back up .
Snowing pretty good right now. It's starting to accumulate on the deck and rooftops. I was going to go turkey hunting, but maybe I'll just stay inside and build a fire.
Woke up to temps right at 40 this morning so no loss of anything yet. Tonight could get cold but I don't think it's supposed to frost. Our frost free date is May 15, at least that's what my wife says and she's the gardner! We have had frosts after that, I remember a few years back we had a light one on Memorial Day weekend! We're holding off planting anything that can't tolerate a little cold until Memorial Day.
Dad an I always waited till memorial day weekend to plant unless it was cold weathef plants. Some seeds we would plant a little early (a week) depending on wx prediction.
I'll be firing up the old stove when I'm done running some early afternoon errands. I thought I was done in early April!
We don't plant anything till Memorial Day that can't take the cold, it's safer that way. I saw fresh snow in the mountains today, and they're calling for wet snow tonight and tomorrow over the north country. The high temp today at noon was 40 deg.
