Monday, April 14, 2014

Spring planting and snow angels

Russian Sage at side of  house.

Overnight, we got a nice little ice storm with snow on top. On April 14. Several weeks after the "start of Spring". Forty-eight hours after a high of 88 degrees. Fuck. THIS is why anyone who's spent any time in the Panhandle knows you don't plant before Easter. And even then it's iffy. Thank God my little fruit trees are still dormant, but my black walnut in the front yard is fucked.

My old black walnut, already budded out.





11 comments:

stevierayv said...

I feel your pain although no snow here got a bunch of work to do.Oh the joy of "spring".

Critter said...

yeah, i'm not planting anything until after Easter.

Anonymous said...

We had snow in the last week too. All I'm working on is clearing off the nasty little weeds that wanted to surface. Planting can start in May for all I care, the weather has been too weird this spring to plant normally.

DoubleTroubleTwo said...

We are do a small 1-3 over night ugh . I think mother nature is on some huge amounts of crack....

wirecutter said...

Next time you expose a root on that black walnut, cut a thin root off, grind it down and dry it. Brewed as a tea it makes a great painkiller.

wirecutter said...

BTW, we've been sleeping with our back door open for the cooling breezes.
I know, fuck you.

hiswiserangel said...

Thing is, wc, we were doing that too a mere 48 hours ago.

wirecutter said...

The difference being is we don't wake up with snow on our floor.

hiswiserangel said...

Okay, NOW, fuck you.

Anonymous said...

Up here in Yankee territory (Michigan) it's not safe to plant much of anything (except onions and lettuce) before Memorial Day. Even in "normal" years we usually get a frosty night in the middle of May.

Rusty

Robert Fowler said...

Here in Iowa (idiots out wandering around) we don't plant before mothers day. I did notice that our Daffodils are bloomed out.