FWIW, I was listening to Joe Bastardi’s Saturday Summary and he says that the next couple weeks are going to be nice, but he is still expecting a rough week weather wise in the form of some severe weather outbreaks for the week of April 14 - 21.
He didn’t state what kind, whether it wold be in the form of tornadoes or cold, but he implied it would be a cold weather thing. He did mention being careful about what people are putting out early.
Re: Joe Bastardi
Love him. We’re still in a Solar Minimum, so I’m trying very hard not to jump the gun here in Zone 5b. It’s hard, LOL!
We’re in for a week of rain, but nice and sunny on the weekends. I can live with that weather pattern.
That said - the plants must know SOMETHING because I had lousy germination on my pepper plants (inside) and had to start 12 more of them, today. Tomatoes are doing OK, but of COURSE, the few cherry-types I need are being jerks, too.
Anyhow, I’m also having NO germination on lettuces out in the greenhouse, which is weird. I’m going to pull those trays in and start all over again on them, as I made space in the grow rack today by moving spinach out to the greenhouse where it’s happy no matter what the weather.