Since you brought up the subject I had to go check my forecast for the next few days. We usually get what the northeast USA gets but a day or so later. From what I see the temps will remain above the freezing mark so it's a bit different than February. Thank goodness! It will be rainy and drizzly for the next few days and a bit on the cool side but I'll take that weather now as long as things warm-up this summer. :O)

Dang... I'm expecting 4 inches of SNOW!!! This is the pits!

Wish I was expecting sprouts... can't say that I am though.

I just added pictures of our blizzard that happened
overnight in the Gallery section, under my WS set up.

It is miserable out there!

Mary

So much for that green horse headed north. I thing Token showed him an apple tree or somethin'. We get stuck with this little guy....

yep, we get as low as 25 for next couple of days. good news it seems to be clear after Wed so am fully planning to start getting things out next Wed.

Today is a bee-yoo-ti-ful day here! 61°F, sunny, balmy with a slight breeze. Good weather for being outside.

Trick is to enjoy it today - the rest of the week is looking to be rainy, rainy, rainy. But the temps will be in the 40s and 50s, with no freezing nights. So they say. I remember very well that sudden Easter freeze back in 2007 that took out my fig tree.

PV

Snow in April is rough. Blizzards are unbelievable! THAT would feel like February. You all have my condolences.

We are having nice moderate April weather here in Mass so far. Lots of rain, temps in the 40s and 50s. Weather underground says the next 5 days are the same. Maybe one night will be freezing. Plants are shooting up and budding, and WS babies are sprouting like crazy (even though it's a bit on the cool side?).

This weather is a dream come true compared to the torture of this past winter.

ahummm Nancy my horse is not green he is white. He also says he can out race and stomp on that turtle.

ml

"Today is a bee-yoo-ti-ful day here!"

Ditto...and I'm pooped after 8 hours outside in it!

Now I'm sitting here smelling Black Cherry Tomato Pesto made with part of the 2007 crop, which was dehydrated. It's going onto pasta and grilled chicken pretty soon. Yum!

Tomorrow, I'll take advantage of the rain-day to sow my first seeds of the year. All veggies and herbs, unless I get crazy and do some flowers as well.

Ah, the whole week looks to be lousy here in DE: rain, rain, freezing temps, more rain. Maybe three hours of sun the whole week.

I'll be sleeping in...

Prof

ellenr, I thought of you when I saw the forecast/temps on the Weather channel! Seems like you got in the groove of sowing this winter and just couldn't stop. :)

Keeping an eye on the temps just in case I have to put the plants I had buried back into their little earthen holes and cover them again. I had the early spring itch and took them out to get some sun last week.

Nobody's noticed the missing towels covering pots under overhang yet but then again nobody else washes them so why would they miss them!

If one more person tells me "April showers bring May flowers" I may pop them...LOL.

Hey newbie_in_nj - April showers bring May flowers!!

How ya gonna "pop" me from way over there??? LOL!

PV

Ok, pv! It looks to me like you're taking brat lessons from Token... I though he would be the only one I needed this for! When the White Sox has their opening day snowed out, you gotta know the weather really sucks! You know what you can do with April showers.....

Cool but beautiful sunshine here today. Yesterday's storm was a bust, just a dusting of snow on the lawns which melted when the sun came out later in the day.

Our temps are headed up all week with 50s by Thursday. Can hardly wait as want to get the mulch removed from the beds.

No sprouts for me yet and will do more ws today.

John made up a new nursery rjhyme this a.m.

april snow showers
bring may dead flowers

thanks john.

hee!

it was barely a dusting so far, so GLAD the INCHES didnt materalize. Mr. L was freaking out about covering everything and I said dont worry, its BROCOLLI, it can take it!!!

Oh, PV, are you lucky I left to go do laundry Sunday or I woulda sent a POP over the VZ and right through the tunnel atcha...LOL.

I just realized that you don't have to wait for all your soil to dry if it's under the balcony above you! If I hadn't seen the "miracles in the sky" that you perform I'd hold it agin ya...ROFL.

I don't know what's wrong with me...every year I delude myself into believing rain won't soak the ground so badly in April I'll be able to plant...and it keeps raining and I look at the plants sitting in their pathetic containers.

Just took a flashlight to make sure everyone's okay out there. Luckily Rocky Raccoon and the miserable deer are the only other nuts out at this time!

My set-up works pretty well if I do say so myself. :)
I have boards on top of cement blocks in the driveway where sit my containers. When it rains too much I put them under the boards and they are protected from another soaking.

Last night I wrapped them cuz it was sup'd to go down to 30 or so, judging my today's early morning temp, it did go down. Tonite is sup'd to be even colder!

Still today the sun is out.

Yes I am weather obsessed. lol. Yesterday after spending a couple hours looking at different weather site, and deciding it's still a crapshoot as they say - re when the last frost will come. Decided to buy some more row covers, they have been working well so far to protect from cold.

Ellen, I'm moving to your house...although 2 obsessed people might get on each other's nerves...LOL.

You obviously understand the sensitivity it takes to do this "plant thing" unlike the people at the house where I try to do it! :)

Where do you buy row covers locally? Home Depot, Lowe's or local garden center? I'm going to need some to get "dappled sunlight" in a couple of weeks and I'm not paying shipping charges anymore for this kind of stuff if I can help it. Guess I can call Becker's & Brock with another question they're "not sure" about. Called Dearborn to ask if they had DotPots and they said, "Sure." I drive all the way up there and all they have is peat pots and have no idea what a DotPot is.

Sorry to ramble again...

Hi,
What is a dot pot?
Actually I'm going to have to buy the row covers online. I'm going to call the places that sell them and ask them if they can give me a deal on the postage since they are so light.
I couldn't find them anywhere in a store.

e

DotPots are like peat pots except they're made from other wood fiber and don't have any glue for binding. They allow roots to come through more quickly and supposedly decompose more quickly in the ground because that glue doesn't have to decompose.

The same company makes Fertilpots which are similar to Dot Pots but one they had certified for organic use.

I found them too late online to order and they only come in large quantities. In retrospect I should have gotten a case of a couple hundred. I could have planted in them from the start and not had to pot up things I started indoors. I would've planted in them outside as well to reduce transplant shock from the large underbed containers where I have things growing.

I'm a worrier about everything and anything as other people have fabulous success planting out hunk of seedlings. I don't have a tender touch and they would've helped me.

Here is a link that might be useful: DotPots/Fertilpots

newbie: thanks for the info.

btw- re row covers, I called and for $10.00 worth of row cover, 5 ft x 20 ft, which is more than enough for me, and seems a reasonable price, it would cost me $7.00 postage!

Can't bring myself to do that. If need be, I'll dig up some alternative.

e