Unbelievable Weather

[recruiterg]

Here are my hot peppers enjoying day three outdoors. This is unprecedented in Minnesota. After a brutally slow start last year, this warm weather is welcome news.

[Mandy97]

Those pepper plants look fantastic.

It has been a crazy winter/spring here too - much warmer than usual. I'm just watching the weather to see if it lasts.

[RebelRidin]

I have had peppers outside for the last week. You peppers are well ahead of mine. They look great.

[Mark0820]

Your pepper plants look great. They are much further along than my plants. You must have started seeds quite a while ago.

[mdvpc]

We had 72 mph wind yesterday when my wife and I were flying in. Then today we had rain/sunny/hail/sunny/snow/rain/sunny. Crazy!

[mysidx]

It has been in the mid 80's past two weeks, but now we are expected a lot of rain and a drop in temps, but not by much. Just about all of my plants have been in the ground for at least two weeks. I'm glad I have backups just in case something happens. They will be ready to go out in about three weeks.

[recruiterg]

Funny, about ten minutes after I posted that, we had a thunderstorm roll through.

[nctomatoman]

We are having early summer conditions here in Raleigh - two weeks ahead of transplanting. Got all sorts of things growing outside already - dogwood, redbud, cherry trees, azaleas all blooming at once. I just have a fear we will pay for this during the summer....will it be endless 95-100 degree days, I wonder!

[fortyonenorth]

Beautiful plants, Pat. When did you start your seeds? My peppers are usually languishing in my 60 deg. basement this time of year, but they've been outside for over a week. We've had two weeks above 70 and they're forecasting 87 for Wednesday. Feels like the real deal. But, like Craig said, one has to wonder whether we'll pay later.

[RebelRidin]

Originally Posted by nctomatoman

We are having early summer conditions here in Raleigh - two weeks ahead of transplanting. Got all sorts of things growing outside already - dogwood, redbud, cherry trees, azaleas all blooming at once. I just have a fear we will pay for this during the summer....will it be endless 95-100 degree days, I wonder!

Our lows are running six weeks ahead of schedule. By that I should be picking snap peas when in fact they are just now coming up.

I love tomatoes but not at the expense of my spring garden. It can slow down any time now!

[KLorentz]

Gonna be in the low 80's Tuesday and Wednesday here.very interesting weather for this time of year.


Kevin

[Douglas14]

I'm amazed at this "unbelievable weather", as you call it. Some of the local lakes opened up today. I've seen people shopping in shorts lately. This time of the year, blizzards aren't out of the question in MN. I wonder if it will cool down again to more seasonable temps.? I'm thinking of getting some of my "cool" season crops planted very soon. I don't know if the local nurseries will have the seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. in for awhile yet. I haven't checked, but may check on that in the next few days. This is very unusual so far! I don't recall ever planting anything out in the garden in March.

[stonysoilseeds]

im used to snow cover at this time of the year my ground is still fairly wet and cloddy but did get some peas and fava beans planted as an experiment

[kath]

It was 80 here today- the pepper and tomato seedlings are spending their days outdoors along with all the other starts. My spinach, lettuce and peas are up and lettuce and brassicas that were started in the basement have been transplanted. There are also tiny lettuce and beet plants that have come up after having been planted a while ago under glass covered planters outdoors, but the carrots planted the same way haven't emerged yet. Some overwintered spinach plants have bolted because I let them overheat too much in the coldframe but we harvested from them all winter because it was so warm they kept growing. I'm thinking about planting onion plants in as I have enough for backups. It's really crazy that it's been so warm for this long but I'm still afraid to believe that we won't get hit with some serious cold before mid-May.

[Wi-sunflower]

Since we have some areas of sandy soil, we seeded some daikon radishes, beets, chard and peas on Sunday.

This actually isn't the earliest we've ever planted, but it IS the warmest the weather has been.

I heard on the TV that this month will probably break our all time warm March from 1990. I don't remember 90 being all that warm but what I do remember is that we got 10 inches of wet heavy snow on May 10 that year. My beans had just germinated the day before and I thought they were crushed from the weight of the snow. They were under a low tunnel that collapsed from the snow but they were OK.

At least I think 90 was the year of the snow and I may have heard the TV wrong too.

Carol