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Yeah I sometimes want to, but I don't have the heart to harm them. They like to dig up all of the nut trees I plant and plant their own sunflower seeds in their place. I have to put cages around every seed I plant. Why they chomp off the new growth, I have no idea. They're cute, but they can be little bitches.

Hopefully you get brood X this year. We need some cicada damage.

Chippies bite the flowers/new growth off the top of everything I try to grow...never seen squirrels do it.

BD on the GFS just as it tries to warm up next week. No slam dunks yet.

Thanks. I actually looked further down and there's a couple of bud nodes that have started branching out already that are growing straight up. So I'm tempted to prune it back all of the way to that point and just keep one of those pair.

PF's wife just left the state.

ineedsnow would prefer 38F and drizzle.

I almost got more in Oct 11 than I did the following met winter (DJF).

@tamarack I had a chipmunk chomp the new growth on one of my potted sugar maples last spring and the new growth came out almost horizontally. I didn’t like it so I pruned the tree back a bit this spring. I’d like the bud to break near the top of the central leader and come almost straight vertically up. Looking at these buds...are these going to be 4 sets of leaves with the smaller inner bud the new stem growth ready to break open? I’m been getting more adventurous/courageous with pruning this spring so I’m just trying to figure out what to look for.

Steve and I debate this all of the time. I've seen some literature defending both sides. I missed out on the snow this recent go-around and my lawn went bonkers the last couple of days as well. I think a deep soaking natural event is what really helped. Plenty of nitrates serve as condensation nuclei so I'm not sure how much of a difference there is between snow falling and melting on contact here versus accumulating a couple inches down there before melting. Like Steve says, maybe the slow release of the nitrates in the melting snow gives a steadier supply of food to the lawn over a 2-3 day span. Regardless, we green.

I got more snow in one storm than PVD did all winter. I almost beat BGR with that one storm too.

Pretty sure I only tossed it here since we didn’t have the dynamics and I woke up to 34° rain.

haha...I am literally the only snowless spot on that map over that large area of cover. Payback for December.

I’m sure there will be no unwanted consequences with this.... https://undark.org/2021/04/12/gmo-mosquitoes-to-be-released-florida-keys/

42F with peeks of blue. I don't know what this snow stuff is that you guys are talking about. We green here in North Lauderdale.

Ha...you’re still getting flakes? 39° and rain showers here.

Crabapple is leafing out too.

Nope. It didn’t even try to stick.

I think my forsythia is actually ahead of yours...but then again I live in the tropics now.

Trust me I love the outcome. I just mean it feels weird to have it snowing literally everywhere around me while I pour rain on the hill. Just kinda have to laugh.

That just means more BN years once regression kicks in.