But it does mean we can't see them under all the snow. I cannot get too excited about plants when I am trying to stay warm.

I've been busy pitching a hissy fit over the snow. Granted, we only had a dusting, and it's gone now, but this is NOT what I moved to Texas to enjoy!
I think I'll go into the guest bedroom and commune with the seedlings in the trays there. At least I'll get a whiff of moist soil.

This is not what I, a native Texan, live for either, marlingardener. I love the heat.

Why is it so cold here? This is my third winter in Texas and I don't recall it being this cold for such a long spell the last two years. Brrrr.

Whether you think its spiritual or maybe scientific, the worlds gotta stay in balance somehow. We had record temperatures this summer and now we gotta have an abnormal winter. The good thing is that I'm inside planning and planting seeds instead of kidding myself that I can put anything out or move this or that. Trust me folks your not gonna like it when we have a humid hot july/august. Ill be glad if I actually see some bluebonnets this year. I saw none and I mean none last year and that just aint texan!

It takes many hours to get unstuck from the clay where I'm redoing my raised beds. Guess I'll take rain over snow...

This has to be one of the worst winters that I can remember here in Texas since 1976. And I'll take the high heat and high humidity any day over this stuff! It depresses me.

cold here too!

went to a spring planting seminar today, inspiring, but
man, this weather makes it hard to start working

i'm holdin' off on starting any seeds, as i don't have
much space indoors, so i need to wait 'till the weather is a bit warmer

i did get my last crop of carrots and salad greens in today

burrrrr is right, i'm ready for march

tesa

it was so warm here today (mid 50's) it's making me want to run out and plant something tomorrow! Maybe some radishes? Knowing my luck it will snow on Monday if I do.

Well...I'll agree that when its cloudy, in the 45-50 degree range and raining outside, that I dont wanna do very much. But I believe days are coming where we we'll be able to work in the garden and sit back have a drink when we're done.

My power has been out since Thursday night at 8:30 (came back up last night - Saturday - at 10:15) and has been off and on all day today. I've never been more glad to have a gas fireplace and cooktop!

I've been worrying about the brugs in the greenhouse - the first night I slept with the window from the bedroom to the greenhouse open, so that some of the heat would go in there. I bought a small kerosene heater for the greenhouse, and yesterday opened up the window for the hot air to flow from the greenhouse to the bedroom!

I also dragged my two potted Brugs from the garage to the breakfast nook, so that I wouldn't risk losing them. I decided to start fertilizing them so they'll think it's spring - and maybe so will I!

Lin in Euless

Oh, Lin, I hope your brugs do well.

I've lived here my whole life, & while I've seen colder temps, I never have experienced this much snow.

See, what did I tell you? I went out today and planted radishes, lettuce and transplanted my chard, older lettuce and such and what happens? By late afternoon temps have dropped, winds have picked up fiercely and lows of 20's are expected later this week.

I suspect I will not be eating garden fresh chard anytime soon.

The brugs should be fine, Sylvia - the lowest it got was 38. That little kerosene heater is awesome! It was warmer in the greenhouse than in the house when I woke up yesterday!!!

Brugs are very forgiving and can actually take freezing temps for a short period of time without much damage. This year will be a test for the many that I have inground as we have never had as much prolonged cold since I have been growing them. This Spring will bring a lot of answers for me, me thinks !!
Lin, I am so glad your power is back on, now hopefully, it will stay on. As cold natured as I am, I would have been standing in the middle of my wardrobe trying to stay warm.....LOL>

There is a lady here in Oklahoma City that grows her brugs in the ground. Well mulched of course, but some brugs are hardier than others.

Hey - you guys could be living here where it has been snowy and bitterfly cold ever since our Xmas snow of 14.1" which broke the old record. I have never seen that much snow in OKC! Now, when I lived in Massachusetts for a couple of years, yes, there was a lot of snow. The winters are much too long for me there. The saying there was that the summers are great there, all 2 days of it! LOL!

If the El Nino trend continues we should have a nice wet spring. There's both good and bad to that. Makes it hard to get things in the ground, but sure makes for existing plants.

Let's just hope we don't have to wait too much lomger....

Susan

My brugs have been inground for the sixth season, I am just waiting to see if this prolonged cold has an effect on them.

I've been worried about my brug, too. This is just the second winter I've had it - in ground, of course.

And - my rosemary looks dead. Will it come back? I thought rosemary was an evergreen here. ?

My rosemary is probably a goner, but not from the cold, from too much water.

I moved to San Antonio labor day of 1973.
I was trying to remember the last time it was this miserable. It was late 1976 or early 1977. I remember 2 ft. long icicles hanging off things.
Lore has always been if it is a cold wet winter, the bluebonnets will be great that spring.
Around 1996 there were bbs as far as I could see in pastures. We were building a new house and I remember seeing them as I was driving out there.

1983 I believe was the year that the weather never got over freezing - even during the day - for about 7 to 10 days. We have a small pond here that froze over then and we played (country version of) ice hockey on it. My grandfather grew up on this land and he said he had never seen that pond frozen over before (and never has since).

I don't remember the bluebonnets that year, that's interesting, tho. It will be interesting to see what all the weather does affect this year.

Carrie - hadn't thought about the rain killing the rosemary. It is planted in a sandy spot. Lavender is also planted there, and unbelieveably the lavender looks fine!

I have very heavy soil that does not drain well ......

My buds on my knockouts have dissapeared. My rosemary has a few green leaves on it... bulbs are there... some are about 4 inches and some are just peeking up... paperwhites, daffodils, and some alliums...

planted some alyssum... it seems to be sprouting... gonna go gently prune some crepe myrtles next week...

the 4 rose cuttings i did are dead... not sure what i did wrong... they are each in a separate zip lock full of potting soil.. used a bit of root hormone... spray occasionally...

d in college station

just hope nothing rots... too wet here...

what's your rainfall for this year?

Hello I'm new to this website but have been lurking for several months. We moved to the country last year and wanted to start a vegetable garden but things took awhile to to going on it. Finally got a tiller and have made a 32x32 garden and fenced it 8' because of the deer. We have onions in and going to put in the potatoes today. I have started 7 variates of tomatoes back in mid Jan and they are doing good under the grow lights. We planted two peach trees and two low chill apples last year and planted one more peach this past weekend. Have a fig to plant along with two pecans and an olive. As my wife tells me I finally get a garden size that I've always wanted. kevin

Congratulations, Kevin, sounds as if you are well on your way to staying busy all season. Have fun, I know I will when the weather permits.