A-L-E-K Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 i don't think our grass ever stopped being green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Trees/bushes started to leaf out last week. Grass is green too. The bit of rain today and then more warmth will only help things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Let's hope the trees don't need to use their secondary buds this year because we fall to the upper teens in April! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Let's hope the trees don't need to use their secondary buds this year because we fall to the upper teens in April! Fruit trees although... Hardy vegitation up that way. A few nights below freezing won't hurt much at all. Esspecially elevated trees. Frost is your tender vegitation killer. The ice crystals cause damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Outside the mountain west, the US is pretty much snowfree and what remains is being read it's last rights. Of note the Canadian prairie. When did that snow show up in eastern Ontario? They've been having severe thunderstorms last few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Peach and plum trees are blooming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Snowpack from Tucker Lake, about as far north as you can go in the arrowhead of MN (the 71 above "Tuesday"). The water equivalent from the 9th from NOHRSC was around 6". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Peach and plum trees are blooming. You can grow peach trees in Ohio!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 You can grow peach trees in Ohio!? My dad has peach trees here in Michigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishforsnow Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Funny you mention the snowpack, this was from Marquette off their home page this morning Incredible snowloss for an area that doesn't have Chinook winds. It is amazing. Even the snow piles from the plows are even gone. In the years of living here in the Keweenaw I never seen it melt this fast. Even checked out the web cam at Krupps resort in Twin Lakes and it is nothing but bare ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 My container peach is flowering: You can grow peaches in Wisconsin and I've seen them growing as far north as Minneapolis. Key is that you probably won't have huge crops every year and some years you may not have any. Asparagus is popping up. I noticed white shoots just poking out of the soil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OHweather Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Most trees have budded, a few starting to leaf out. Bushes leafing out. Daffodils have been blooming since Saturday and tullops will likely follow suite within the next several days. Some flowering trees are already blooming. Grass is green and growing fast with all the rain we have received recently in the Cleveland area. This is 3-4 weeks ahead of schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Incrediable that my Bebb Oak is starting to bud. This is 4-5 weeks early. Nature is telling us that this is truly the mother of all warm marches. I can only wish for a redux of this every year. Maybe when I'm in my 70s or 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Stebo, DLL - I had no idea you could grow peaches anywhere north of like Kentucky! Thought they were real sensitive to the cold like citrus crops. ...Learned something new today! Rain this afternoon, really didn't do much. Enough to wet surfaces. 0.02". Grass probably won't get real green until the rain later this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitwx Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 My apple trees are budding. My sisters peach blossoms are opening. The magnolias in South Bend and Plymouth are coming out.My mint has come up 2 months early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Already some victims to the the heat: This may be one of the worst years in decades for Wisconsin families who for generations have relied on Mother Nature's dependable freezing and thawing cycles in early spring to keep sap running through trees so they can make maple syrup. For many, the maple syrup season lasted all of one day. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/wisconsin-maple-producers-endure-worst-year-in-memory-904k44h-143430066.html Stock up on maple syrup, I have an inkling the price is going to jump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Leaf out is full on up here just north of Milwaukee. Daffodils blooming too. Lawn is greening up quickly. Do you keep all those palms in a heated greenhouse or inside your own house during the winter? EDIT: I saw another picture, so you put boxes over them.... Do you use a heating coil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 My grass actually looks browner then most years... The fact that it has been exposed to the air temps all winter seems to have killed it off more then most years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Saw my first bumble bee... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Now I am starting to see leaves popping out today. Magnolia flowers and everything. Down close to the lake though, everything is on hold right now, except the willows and regular spring flowers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Do you keep all those palms in a heated greenhouse or inside your own house during the winter? EDIT: I saw another picture, so you put boxes over them.... Do you use a heating coil? I have a box over them with an electric heater set at 35F. They are from the highlands of China, so they can sit at 32-35F all winter and no damage. They are actually hardy to 5-10F before showing foliar damage, but don't like extended periods below 32F. I never protect them until we have a few days forecasted below 32F for highs and then I usually pull the protection first week of March, so they are covered ~90 days, which means I get ~270 days of palm enjoying time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Trees popping leaves now. Earliest I've ever seen that in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I have a box over them with an electric heater set at 35F. They are from the highlands of China, so they can sit at 32-35F all winter and no damage. They are actually hardy to 5-10F before showing foliar damage, but don't like extended periods below 32F. I never protect them until we have a few days forecasted below 32F for highs and then I usually pull the protection first week of March, so they are covered ~90 days, which means I get ~270 days of palm enjoying time! Looks like your house faces North.... that must make it a tad harder. I have a south facing house, I have been tempted to try this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropical Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Looks like your house faces North.... that must make it a tad harder. I have a south facing house, I have been tempted to try this. They are on the west side of my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 The leaf out almost seems like it's happened overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Morel mushroom season is going to be fun to try and catch this year.... but we need some rain.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Morel mushroom season is going to be fun to try and catch this year.... but we need some rain.... the cutoff should do the trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Morel mushroom season is going to be fun to try and catch this year.... but we need some rain.... This! I think this year there should be a morel mushroom thread. In fact the inaugural one will be started soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowMeHunter Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Never did the Morel thing but grandpa was huge in to it up in the Medford WI area where he lived. Remember him saying his hottest spots were where there was the most deep poop - deer trails - banks - dry river bottoms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Never did the Morel thing but grandpa was huge in to it up in the Medford WI area where he lived. Remember him saying his hottest spots were where there was the most deep poop - deer trails - banks - dry river bottoms Yup. Also anywhere the moss grows and morels love Elm trees. I've got a nice spot in my own backyard where the morels grow like my mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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