Re: ah, Spring in Texas & elsewhere

A few little spitting type showers here. only 34 degrees now just a bit before 7pm; forecast 28 tonight, but 51 tomorrow & 60 Tues, so still lookin' pretty good.
I had to do MG stuff yesterday and thought I'd do some more cleanup here today, but just too chilly & icky. I ran several errands & a bit of shopping then settled into an afternoon in the garage mixing potting soil. I still had 5 kitty litter pails of good soil a friend had given me so I stretched it out with Canadian peat, perlite, vermiculite, and screened leaf mold to yield 17 containers of mix plus enough to pot up four 2 -gallon roses (Menards had them for 50cents after rebate, so I got there early before they got beat up) and a couple of brugs. With the soil ready, I can hopefully start digging Tuesday.
This won't be enough soil so I'm going to have to look for some cheap bagged soil. I still have five 2.2cu ft bales of Canadian peat and plenty of perlite, vermiculite, and fertilizer. I should screen some more leaf mold. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ah, Spring in Texas
raining here now.... supposed to get 6 to 12 inches of snow before this system 
gets out of my neighborhood.... or so they say... sigh.

Donna
40 miles south of Chicago, Illinois

--- On Sat, 3/28/09, james singer <inlandjim1@q.com> wrote:

From: james singer <inlandjim1@q.com>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ah, Spring in Texas
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 2:42 PM

Raining here [what else is new?]. Not hard, dramatic rain. Soaker type. It
started sometime last night and hasn't let up--if anything, it's become
more persistent. There's no breeze so I can only conclude the storm is in no 
hurry to move off.

On Mar 28, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Maria wrote:


It's 56 here right now, but everything is still brown and gray, and I

fully expect to see another snowstorm before Spring really gets going.
Usually
happens just after the plowmen have taken the plows off all their trucks.


Maria in Pocono Summit, NE PA



LOL - no way, it's still winter back there!   It'll be back up

to the mid

70's by Monday.  Thank goodness!

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:06 PM, droman

<djroman@worldnet.att.net> wrote:



Pam,

Sounds like it is time to move back to the Pocono's.

Dan
zone 6 PA

----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Evans"

<gardenqueen@gmail.com>

To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 6:47 PM
Subject: [CHAT] ah, Spring in Texas


 Out looking for twirlies, we've got a watch going until 8pm.

We had a

big
thunderstorm come up from the South around 1pm, dropped about

1 - 1 1/2"

of
rain.  Warm and muggy, then the wind shifted abruptly to

Northwest (here

comes a norther) and the temps have dropped 20 degrees in the

last hour.

So
there is some serious turbulence in the atmosphere at the

moment - winds

are
around 30 mph sustained w/ gusts.  We actually have a frost

warning for

tomorrow and Sunday morning now.  And maybe flurries tonight?

Crazy

weather man.  The birds are freaking out too.

--
Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A



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zone 8A

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Willamette Valley
44.99 N 123.04 W
Elevation 148'
39.9" Precipitation
Hardiness Zone 8/9
Heat Zone 5
Sunset Zone 6
Minimum 0 F [-15 C]
Maximum 102 F [39 C]

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