Sunday, March 03, 2013

It's winter again...

I cannot believe that I'm covering plants on March 3! We had just enough of a cold start to the winter to send everything dormant, then a long hot spell that caused everything to bud, and now a couple weeks in a row of near-freezing nights. My citrus is all in bloom, my peaches are budded... My plum crop is totally shot. My beans are burned. My prickly pears (cactus) fruits are ruined. Everything tropical is brown.

I guess this is the new normal. It's not so much the warming, at least for the moment, as the unpredictability of the new weather patterns. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know, right?

Deltona Gardener said...

Great God in boots! I cannot believe I was covering plants on March 28. Cold damaged tomatoes, beans, and squash.