Re: anybody planting out there?

What a contrast!  We are having another very early spring.  When we first
moved to East Tennessee, we used to have four distinct seasons and I miss
them.  The daffodils have been blooming for three weeks, the willows are
leafing out, vinca is blooming, candytuff has started, daylilies are poking
up...I can hardly catch up.  In addition, we are over one winter month's
shortfall in rain...it is so dry that I am having to water constantly to
keep things alive.  This is very unusual for ETN, which normally gets
around 12 inches of precipitation during early winter.  Forecast for today
is that we MAY have a sprinkle. 

Bonnie Zone 7/7 ETN
Remember:  The River Raisin, The Alamo, The Maine, Pearl Harbor, 9/11


> [Original Message]
> From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 3/9/2007 4:56:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] anybody planting out there?
>
> Are you kidding?  After the cold we have been having I don't know
> when we will ever be able to plant.  We can't even get down to the
> garden.  The hillside and steps are still a sheet of ice from the ice
> storm two weeks ago.  The temperature is above freezing - 33.7
> degrees - for the first time in a week.  Temperatures have been in
> the teens and single digits every night, and not out of the low 20s
> in the daytime.  What this has done to the daffs and flowering 
> shrubs that were ready to pop in January, I hate to think.  We have
> always planned on planting peas on St. Patrick's day or the nearest
> weekend - can't see doing that this year for the first time in the 
> 37 years we've been here.  Some global warming!
> Auralie
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