Dave - hope your tender succulents are safe! We don't have much snow anymore (since just about all of it thawed about 3 weeks ago), just cm or two at the time. But it is cooler, and overnight temps fluctuate between -4*C and -16*C...

Dave, Thanks for posting. We've had such bipolor weather this winter :P

Rina I was meaning to ask, where are you located??

Spring is sprung here !!!!!

We had a snow storm on Tuesday, the 2nd nor'easter in about 2 weeks, and they say we may get another next week. Weird weather, bitter cold for the first part of winter with hardly any snow, then warmer and still not much of any snow. Now in March we've had more snow than in the rest of the winter. Can't get out to start cleaning up the garden, but at least I can still go skiing.

Rina, you still get -16 at night? Ugh! We are only an hour or two apart, and we have mostly -4 to -6 at night. An occasional -8, no worse. I am soooo ready for spring...

1. Dinie
2. It is up &down...last night dropped to -16*C, tonight supposed to be -7*C Sun overnight -9*C, Mo -16*C again! Daytime is much warmer...Spring is still far away - for me, it starts when plants can stay outside :)

That really is a tremendous difference. This is our outlook for the next few days:

For me spring starts with the first flowers outside, and by that definition we have had spring since the end of February:

But I am starting to tire of that definition, and leaning over to yours ;-).

Winter returned to us for the weekend. We woke up to a 3cm layer of snow and under 0 temperatures (it hasn't gone above during the day). I started singing Christmas songs as I started the day. The entire country in chaos again *sigh*.

When we came back from groceries shopping we noticed one of the roof panels of the green house had blown off. Luckily no plants were damaged. OH started to fix it back on from the outside and asked me to bring him a hammer. As I passed it on to him the greenhouse door was closed by the wind and the catch got back on. There we were, locked outside in minus something in a snow blizzard, without a coat (me) and all doors locked. Had to knock a little window out of the front door to get back in. I've had my fair share of winter now thank you, hopefully this was it for many months...

Nice and sunny today! Sun make lot of difference, even if it is still cool, -1*C right now. And there may be beautiful Northern Lights visible this weekend, depending where you are...

86ºF high 63ºF low. Vacillating up and down. My spring time plants are blooming so spring is here. Planted tomatoes.

warm yesterday afternoon so streets and sidewalks all melted off-nice. power failure this morning from overloaded wires . Connie sorry about the window. pineapple express is predicted to hit sierras next week, huge amounts of moisture coming up from the tropics. i really need to finish clearing the garden.

wantonamara, tomatoes so soon, i am green. maybe i'll put up the cloches and at least start warming the ground.

I am thickening my mulch to keep my ground from warming and bolting my lettuce. Did you catch my agave flower pic. I got that in late

Ah, but remember, Dave, she likely has to get them in early. As I understand it, all too soon it will be too hot for her tomato plants to produce.

I am probably already too late. Tomatoes here are about protecting them in the weird late cold front, which have been frequent this year, and then nursing non producing plants through the summer and then getting a second crop in fall. July 4th is the tradition date for planting the second crop and believe me growing seedlings of anything at that time of year here is hard. I guess this is the wrong forum for this conversation . Just a tad OT. LOL.

wantonamara that is impressive. more pics as it gets going please. my neo-mexicana is getting old enough so maybe one of these years. tomato stories are welcome everywhere, anytime.

About the same here Rina. It's 2c, but it's nice and sunny so that helps a bit. The snow is even melting....... for now.

I guess I should start an agave thread. after all this is a succulent thread.

It started staying warm every day (or at least around 60F) a week or 2 ago, then we had 2-3 days that it was back down to the high 30's to 40's, but now tomorrow it's supposed to reach 80F. Granted, it hasn't actually felt like the temperature because some days we have 10-20mph wind. But the dogwoods are blooming like crazy around here and the city has planted tulips on several roads.