dendrite

31.9° We snow.

37/34 an hour ago at Miller St Park.

Virga 48/29

Have some spots here that are close to needing their first mow. Areas that had lingering snow and puddles are still lagging behind. Forsythia has bloomed and the crabapple and willow are trying to leaf out. Everything else has been swelling buds for weeks.

What are you using for posts? Basic round PT posts rated for ground contact? My 4x4 posts in my run I used concrete and went down 24”. So I have 6ft AGL with the posts.

A sultry 41° and -RA here.

We 44F

Never go back?

Headed down the same path as lavarock now.

I just got my 2020 Dirt Doctors NH catalog in the mail and they have this in it... I’m thinking about trying a yard or two and spreading it in a few spots in the front yard and along the driveway where the grass is thin and the topsoil is thinning.

I had a load of top soil I never used last year next to my run and all of that started growing in it. Looks like it only propagates via seed so it must’ve been in the soil to begin with. Great. Although from what I’m reading it is easy to win the battle with if and when I ever want to. It’s a legume like clover so it’s a nitrogen fixer. I was just really surprised how much the chickens loved it when they tried it. Their reaction may be neck and neck number 1 with plantain on the weed list.

Black medic maybe?

Anyone hot an ID on this weed? My chickens eat it like it’s crack. It looks like a clover, but it appears to be something else. The stems from the previous season are fairly hard/woody. The leaves almost have a fleshy feel about them...somewhere between a clover feel and a sedum feel.

Will take until June for that here. lol

Does anyone know when I should expect elm (specifically slippery/red elm) to drop seeds in the spring? I know they're fairly early, but I'm not sure how that applies to my climo.

Lawn is finally greening up. It was pretty brown after snowcover from mid Dec through mid Mar.

I'd love to cut back on my lawn and do more perennial gardens, wildflowers, and fruit trees.

Probably none

Plenty of snow and moisture up here. It’ll be fun sending backdoors your way through June.

CON had some VIRGA obs in the remarks around that late aftenoon time. Maybe they reached the ground up here like in ORH. But I do like the weenie 29F -SHSN ob to finish off September. There's nothing on the Franklin Falls COOP forms for 9/30 or 10/1 so the observer apparently didn't see anything during the day, but I'm not sure they were looking for flurries up there at the dam back then either.

Here's the ORH snow obs. Looks like early evening. ORH,1992-09-30 22:00,METAR KORH 302200Z 34008KT 40SM -SHRASN SCT050 BKN080 OVC120 06/M03 A3000 RMK RSB40 BINOVC SLP170 T00611028 ORH,1992-09-30 23:00,METAR KORH 302300Z 32010KT 40SM SCT050 OVC080 05/M02 A3001 RMK VIRGA S-NW RSE2152 SLP173 T00501017 CON just barely snuck the snow in before midnight. Technically it was a T for 9/30 and 10/1. CON,1992-10-01 05:00,KCON 010500Z 00000KT 7SM -SHSN OVC040 M02/M03 A3006 RMK SB39 VLGT SLP181 T10171028 CON,1992-10-01 06:00,KCON 010600Z 19004KT 7SM SCT040 SCT070 M02/M03 A3005 RMK SE12/ SLP179 60000 8/570 T10221033 57005

Yeah it was later in the day up here.

Screen doors slamming shut in Ayer.

The great flurry of September 30, 1992.