Weather

[bower]

Aw man, I am starting to worry about my garlic with another heaping serving of "everything" coming tonight. Yesterday's snow 4 cm + rain 16 mm ended with snow again, freezing today, now snowing again and will turn to freezing rain, then another 10-15 mm rain, drizzle, fog, chance of a thundershower... 8 C by morning falling to -1 C in the afternoon... back to flurries. Wind gusting to 110 kph. So the garlic beds are getting soaked then frozen, then soaked, then frozen... will be 4 times in the last week.
Thundersnow, we have had it. But thunder is pretty infrequent here overall. Some years I have not heard thunder once. In a busy year, half dozen times tops.

[imp]

If it is a snow year here, thunder during a snow fall is likely. But then, we get a LOT of thunder, especially in the spring and fall with the bigger storms. Often enough, it can be felt and also willrattle my windows.

[Gardeneer]

I hope your weather improves soon.
Dow here our LFD is behind us and the next 15 days forecast shows no lows under 42F.
Last night,s low went down to 36F. I covered all my tomatoes, peppers an all frost sensitive stuffs for the last time this season, I hope.

WEATHER: you may talk about it, all you want but cannot do anything about it.

[SteveP]

Our LFD is listed as April 15th. Forecast shows the low on the 14th is 28 and the low for the 15th is 32. I hope to plant around the 25th. If the 10 day forecast looks good, I will go for it. I am beyond ready.

[imp]

Sure hope your garlic does well through all the weather flips, Bower.

[Nan_PA_6b]

There are now 70 landslides in the area from the saturated ground. Route 30 took out 3 buildings on its way down the hillside.

Detours abound.

Nan

[bigpinks]

snow on the ground this am at SC Ohio. Good weather on the way.

[EPawlick]

April showers here in Southern Ontario for the next six days. Still unseasonably cool in the 40's F except Thursday which will be 63 F.

[Hellmanns]

Awoke to another history making snow of an inch this morning here in KY.

[mobiledynamics]

We're getting a tease. High 40's right now. Friday. 73F Sat 79F . Then dropping to low 50's.

[Tormato]

One of these weeks, I'll get around to finding my tomato seeds and then start some.

[Nan_PA_6b]

Cutting it a little close, there, Tormato?

Nan

[JRinPA]

I haven't started any tomatoes yet. They grow so fast, I think they only need about 4-5 weeks. Last year I swore to myself I would not start them until mid-April this year. I'll probably rotate my stuff this next couple days and start tomatoes this weekend. Broccoli and cauliflower need to get hardened off. Peppers need to be potted up - I "pot up" into 2" soil blocks with good success.

It snowed again last night, but Fri and Sat look like the days everything sown so far will pop on up.

I'm sorry to hear about those garlic issues up in Canada. I organized a garlic bed last fall for the first time. We have a had what looks to be a kind of Purple Stripe growing wild here for years. Now, in its own raised bed, it looks happy as can be since it broke through the leaf mulch in February. I am a little concerned about our rhubarb. That broke through its mulch at some point and some of those leaf edges look a little brown from the cold nights.

[imp]

We are supposed to hit into the low 90's this week.

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b

Cutting it a little close, there, Tormato?

Nan

Not at all.

I start my seeds indoors, around the first of May. The day they sprout (90% in 3 or 4 days) they go outside (weather permitting) for the day, and back indoors at night. With good weather, most are ready to transplant in 4 weeks. Right now, the weather is not good.