Pollard, Augie; 50s, 60s, and 70s will the highs next week in KC, every morning will start off cold.
Fruit trees will start blossoming and a late frost will kill off the developing fruit. (I have plums. I think the Aronia will be OK.)
Snow, but no sleet. If its dry later in the week I’ll see if I can do some tilling.
Need late varieties here or something. I’ve got a peach tree that has had the blossoms freeze and drop off 6 years out of 8. Japanese beetles got the fruit one year. Only got a few peaches in the “good year”. Ten times better than the store but ...
Orchard crops are a crap shoot when you live in a place where half of your weather comes from the GoM, and the other half comes from the North Pole.
I should probably spend some time pruning my trees today. I’d hate for them to be looking scraggly when their buds get frozen.
There’s still frost in the ground here. The soil isn’t going to be workable until the freeze/thaw cycles have ended. I just need it to thaw a little bit so I can dig the footers for the green-to (green-to - I just made that up. I am SO clever. lol) addition to the potting shed.