I feel your Angst. Here in South Louisiana, we are already just outside of zones traditionally able to grow peaches, so I don't even try, but my hydrangeas and roses are also budding, and I planted baby dahlias for the first time last year. They survived our summer scorch, which thrilled me, but they are too young to have much energy reserved in those tubers yet, so I don't foresee them surviving multiple false starts this spring. Well, some of them are sprouting already as well. Yikes!
Poor plants can’t figure out this climate change.
I am just worried about the cold fronts that keep rolling from the west so far they have skirted us but ....
We're starting to see it here, too, with swarms of robins (yes, unusual!) gathering nesting material. I also saw two hummers zipping around today. Very strange fall & early winter here!
I saw several Robin the other day also
And we had snow today, winter is just starting for us.
Yuck
Yep. I found mosquito larvae swimming in our "winter" birdbath. Finches are paring up and building nests in our gourd-birdhouses. Spring bulbs are popping up. Magnolia is budding. And tonight.... snow flurries.....
Wow mosquito larvae already! Not good.
You have peaches , I love peaches , they don't do well down east I've tried .
Pretty good growing up here - the squirrels appreciate my work
@Heidi68 I go to Merrells farm stand on 101 never had a bad one , from june to august bet I eat 2 bushels a season by my self several a day . Never buy from a grocery store . Nothing better than a good peach nothing worse than a bad peach ( mealy not sweet used to piss me off when I got a bad batch )
It looks like they are starting to open too, that could be trouble. The the peach has a chill requirement, so you may not set any fruit this year.
Yeah - makes me sad....
If I thought I could I'd tent a tree up and AC it if it would give me good peaches .I go nuts over peaches almost better than sex . the farm stand I go to give me the ones that are almost over ripe for nothing that I eat before going home .
@Besalbub We used to time our summer trips to visit the in laws for cherry/peach season in the Hood River OR area. The cherries and peaches they were selling at the farm were the ones that were too ripe to ship. They didn't believe i could finish off a lug (30 pounds) of cherries and a case of peaches (20 pounds) before they went bad. They also forgot that there were 9 people eating and not their normal 2.
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