Our plums are just finishing up blooming.

The only year the deer haven't beat us to the plums was the first year the trees produced fruit.

We're expecting it to be about 42 degrees here tonight....was 46 last night, so I think the deer treats are safe in our yard.

I hope y'all stay above freezing too.

Dawn

We are behind here in the west. I don't see many blooms yet.

Lynn

Dawn

Got down to 35 here this morning, so they looked to have made it ok this year. This may be the first year we get to make jelly. :-)

Lynn

Watched the mesonet closely this past winter. Looks like you all stay just a little colder than the rest of us.

Although our temps can drop like a rock on a clear, still night here being surrounded on 3 sides with higher ground.

randy

Hi Randy & Lynn,

Got down to 37 degrees here and a very light, patchy frost. No damage to plants

I was expecting a frost because we were supposed to be "partly cloudy, variable winds". Well, by 8 p.m. it was clear as a bell and no winds, so I covered up anything tender that I thought needed it. Like Randy, I am in a low-lying microclimate that freezes easily.

Lynn, I watch the mesonet closely just like Randy does and there are times I wish we stayed a little colder like y'all do. With our erratic warm days in January and February the fruit trees ALWAYS seem to bloom too early.

In spite of last night's brief frost, it still feels like an early spring here. As my DH, who is from Pennsylvania, said to me the other day....we knew it would be an early spring because the groundhog said so!

Here it is the early emergence of many insects, the early arrival of birds and the rapid greening up of many trees that indicates an early spring to me.

Dawn

Dawn,

I heard grasshoppers flying in the yard yesterday.

Groundhog. Humph! Flipping a coin is just as accurate. :-)

randy

Randy,

Try telling that to a person from Pennsylvania. They kind of worship that silly old groundhog. :)

You win the prize for first grasshopper. I haven't seen any. Although, with my free-ranging guineas, I hardly see any grasshoppers any more. We do have tons and tons of moths, butterflies, flies, bees, craneflies, gnats, fire ants, red ants, etc. already, but no mosquitoes so far! Lots of frogs too.

Dawn