gravitylover

Please no

It's pretty new but yeah it probably does need to be sharpened (or replaced), it has done a lot of work recently. That's one of the things I need to learn how to do but the other side of that is chains are cheap at Home Depot... Looks like the upcoming cool wet shot isn't going to be much to write home about. Temps look comfortable enough (60 is reasonable) and it doesn't look like much precip overall, maybe enough to soak the surface a few times but that's about it.

Boy what a stretch of soil warming weather we've had. The soil moisture is holding out pretty well from an inch or so down but now that things are leafing out (a week or two early) that will change quickly. I planted a few things and they're doing surprisingly well, we'll see if that lasts or if it was folly. I've spent a bunch of time cutting up those 9 trees that I lost two years ago and have gotten through most of the small stuff but I'm finding the limits of my rechargeable chain saw. It's not that it doesn't have the power or torque to go through big dense stuff but the battery overheats and it shuts down.

I don't worry about the twigs and small branches, the lawnmower takes care of them pretty well. By June they're all chopped up and last fall's leaves are beat up and worked in. No fertilizing necessary, just replace what has grown out of the land by working the remnants back into it.

More flurries earlier. It's cold. @Juliancolton radar says you're snowing, is it telling the truth?

Yup wintry appeal for sure, 28/13/NW5/Flurries

I guess the question is will it be coastal cool or continental cold? I'll take cool over cold, lower heating bills and better gardening conditions. I'm ready to have some fresh picked produce and really don't want to have to wait out freezes until early May again.

It's snowing

Who ordered this!!? April Fools Day snow is ok in my book.

That's what I was alluding to in a post a week or so ago. Spring seemed like it used to be warmer and drier earlier in the season, like it was more pleasant for more days than it has been for the last decade or so. I don't remember so many days affected by back door cold fronts and I (think I) remember planting the garden earlier.

I had pellets for a while this morning. A couple of inches would probably be ok but any more and we'll have branches and weak trees down. It's budding heavily and leafing out for some species here and the ground is loose.

Around 7:30, maybe a little later, I had windblown frozen pellets falling. That was nice to see.

51/51/S5/Fog. .5" for the day so far.

Heavy enough rain that some of the gutters are overflowing. Nice day... That storm for midweek sounds an awful lot like the April Fools storm in 97. Warm the day before, trees were leafing out quickly, some rain and rind then snow overnight as the storm moves through. Hopefully it's not 17" like that was because the trees are leafing out again.

Well, yeah. That too I guess I'll get a few new beds together and get the soil mix in. Couldn't get good garden soil easily so I got organic potting soil and organic compost that I'll mix 75/25 and add a layer of native brown material on the bottom.

Man, it's been so hard refraining from planting the garden this week. The garlic I planted in November all came up and is looking great and the herbs that I leave in are coming back strong. If we don't see a real cold snap in the next 2-3 weeks I think it's time to get some early crops in so what's the consensus on that? I know it's never smart to think it's going to stay this warm this early in the year and our last freeze is still 3-5 weeks away but...

This is some seriously dense fog. A couple of hundred feet visibility tops, I haven't been out but I can't see the end of the neighbors yards across the street and that's about 300 feet away.

^^Eek. .47 for the event here. Between that and this mornings fog things are wet but thankfully not soggy like last week.

I saw 68 on the dashboard while driving. It's amazing how quickly it went from a solid snowpack to mud to dry. I dug down a foot or so to pull an old root ball and it's dry(ish) 4" down and not muddy at a foot. I've got buds trying to open on some bushes and the trees are looking ready to pop. The garlic I planted last November is coming up already! Yay I hate getting these really nice stretches too early, it makes me want to start planting but I know it's really too early. I think the time is right so I did a fair bit of soil amendments today with organic compost and fresh soil. Hopefully after next weeks little cool snap it warms up for good.

Only if you promise to keep it south of I80. I'll even give you up to the NY/NJ/PA border if it makes you happy.

Nah I'm good with ~60* every day for a month or two. I mean, I won't complain if it gets up to 70 Maybe some rain a day or two a week. Ya know kinda like an old school spring.

KDXR 13 miles away and most locations in towns and along the lakes dropped into the high 20's early this morning but up here on the hill it stayed in the mid 30's. It's already 45 and climbing rapidly while it's still near freezing in town.

I don't think the last little pile will hold out until tomorrow so I threw a few snowballs today just because. What can I plant that's cold hardy enough to withstand another month of cold nights? Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli...?

Well, with .9-1" around the hill yesterday that does away with that deficit. The big thing is how much water the melting snow put into the ground compounded with that inch of rain. The precip numbers alone can't tell the story accurately. What do the numbers look like since the fall, so the last 6 months?

I was hoping that the couple of days between melt off and the rain was enough but no, the basement is flooding I think it's either coming up through the old floor drain or through the wall at the northeast corner where the snow held on for the longest.