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I just got my 2020 Dirt Doctors NH catalog in the mail and they have this in it... I’m thinking about trying a yard or two and spreading it in a few spots in the front yard and along the driveway where the grass is thin and the topsoil is thinning.

I had a load of top soil I never used last year next to my run and all of that started growing in it. Looks like it only propagates via seed so it must’ve been in the soil to begin with. Great. Although from what I’m reading it is easy to win the battle with if and when I ever want to. It’s a legume like clover so it’s a nitrogen fixer. I was just really surprised how much the chickens loved it when they tried it. Their reaction may be neck and neck number 1 with plantain on the weed list.

Black medic maybe?

Anyone hot an ID on this weed? My chickens eat it like it’s crack. It looks like a clover, but it appears to be something else. The stems from the previous season are fairly hard/woody. The leaves almost have a fleshy feel about them...somewhere between a clover feel and a sedum feel.

Thought this Lyme story would interest you. A couple years old, but I had never read about that before. Would debunk the conspiracy theories. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/15651/

Was it wet?

I think all of the recent years are digital, but there's this link... https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/coop/coop.html

Will take until June for that here. lol

Does anyone know when I should expect elm (specifically slippery/red elm) to drop seeds in the spring? I know they're fairly early, but I'm not sure how that applies to my climo.

Lawn is finally greening up. It was pretty brown after snowcover from mid Dec through mid Mar.

My exit up here (19) has a pond with cattails between the highway and off ramp. Every spring the same (I presume) goose and gander return to mate and raise their young for a month or two. They returned a couple of days ago. Unfortunately the plows pushed quite a bit of trash along the edge of the pond and no one has been out yet to pick it up. The gander would probably chase them off at this point. He likes to angrily come up to cars that are forced to stop 5+ car lengths back at the stop sign. We had a male and female mallard duck chill in the yard the other day too. Apparently they think our yard is now a pond.

Could just use the April thread. It's doldrum season so it doesn't have to be just disco. We've been posting obs in there for days.

We had both here. The first set of cells was all small hail. There was a layered look to the hydrometeors and some were a little smaller than peas. That last line started as hail, but transitioned over to regular sleet and the temp responded with a quick drop from 35F to 33F. Some of the colder surfaces still had a coating of it remaining this morning. There was some decent hail here near the CON-Pembroke line as well as I saw large piles of it built up near storm drains and other runoff areas.

I'd love to cut back on my lawn and do more perennial gardens, wildflowers, and fruit trees.

Pack is down to 6-7" this evening. It's currently 50/41 at 7pm and the pack is ripe for a beating.

May wanna check CON for being too cold now. Max of 55° so far while everyone else was 58-59°. Even I was 56° with a full, deep pack.

Probably none

Plenty of snow and moisture up here. It’ll be fun sending backdoors your way through June.

You're racking up the big subzero mornings this month. Already up to 29F here and rising fast after a min of 3.8F. The next 3 days look great with mucho sun. The syrup should be flowing.

Nice inversion this morning. Mid 20s at Gunstock and around 4° here. This should mix out quickly this morning.

Egg McMuffin?

They aight all things considered. The bigger pile is by the birds. We don’t melt a lot of snow on the north side of the hill. They get pretty high in AN winters.

31/20 and sun. Spring airmass.

4” wouldn’t be too bad. I’ll be able to try out the new blower skids. It looks a lot like last week’s system...just gotta get the QPF to verify.